41. HEMILOPHUS. 405 



Dryopicus gutturalis, Malh. Picidce, i. p. 51, pi. xv. figs. 4 S ad., 



•5 2 ad., Bjiiv. (1861). 

 Alophouerpes guttiiralis, Cab. Sf Heine, Mm. Hein. \\. p. lOlJ (1863) ; 



Blyth ^- Wald. B. Bunn. p. 75 (1875). 

 Ilemilophus gutturalis, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1868). 

 Campethera gutturalis, Gray, Sand-l. B. ii. p. 193, no. 8704 (1870). 

 Mulleiipicus gutturalis, Hume, Sir. F. 1874, p. 471 ; id. ^- Oates, oj/. 



cit. 1875, pp. li, C)6. 

 Alophoiiei-pes pulverulentu.s, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 51 (1S74); Wurdl.- 

 Ra7ns. Ibis, 1877, p. 457 ; Sharpe, op. cit. 1879, p. :?42 ; id. P. Z. tS. 

 1879, p. 326, 1881, p. 792 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 29 (1883) ; 

 Vorderm. Over. Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind. xliv. p. 191 (1884). 

 Hemilophus iischeri, Briifig. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Breni. 1877, p. 454 

 (juv.)- 

 Adult male. Entire upper parts, wings, and tail uniform blackish 

 slate-colour ; shafts of quills and of rectrices black : nasal plumes, 

 entire head, hind neck, and sides of the neck of a lighter slate-colour 

 than the upper parts, the forehead and sides of the face uniform, 

 the feathers of the crown, hind neck, and sides of the neck covered 

 M'ith greyish-white spots and having a powdered appearance; a pale 

 red malar patch ; chin, throat, and fore neck ochreous saffron-yellow, 

 the feathers having reddish tips, the latter colour increasing in in- 

 tensity on the fore neck ; the lower feathers of the fore neck ashy 

 at the base, the tips pale reddish ; under surface of the body and 

 under tail-coverts blackish slate-colour, the feathers having a paler 

 spot at the tip ; the lower abdominal, as well as the vent-feathers, 

 varied with buffy-whitish tips ; under wing-coverts aud axillaries 

 dark slate-colour : " bill bluish white, blackish along culmen and 

 at the tips of both mandil)les ; the inside of the mouth bluish black ; 

 eyelids dusky plumbeous ; iris very dark hazel-brown ; legs a deep 

 dull blue ; claws bluish horny" (Oates). Total length 17'5 inches, 

 culmen 2-S, wing 9-05, tail 5-S, tarsus 1*52 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 1-2, outer posterior 0'95, inner anterior 0'9, inner 

 posterior 0'62. 



Young male. Differs from the adult male in having the entire 

 malar region, forehead, and greater part of the crown washed with 

 pale crimson, this colour being very faint upon the crown ; the head 

 darker slaty grey and the tips of the feathers less white ; upper parts 

 rather browner ; the under surface of the body unspotted ; the ab- 

 domen, sides of the body, and under tail-coverts more of a dusky 

 brown, but assuming the dark slaty-gre)- plumage ; chin, throat, 

 and fore neck light buff, the latter washed with pale red. It has 

 also a pale crimson stripe, rather than a spot, on the hinder part 

 of the malar region, as in the adult. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of the 

 red malar patch ; the feathers of the chin and throat bright ochreous 

 saffron-yellow, without reddish tips ; the fore neck slightly washed 

 with reddish. "The soft parts the same as in the male." (Gates.) 

 Total length 17 inches, culmen 2-8, wing 8-8, tail 5-9, tarsus 1-52. 

 JJab. Sub-Himalayan Provinces, west to Kumaon (probably 

 further), east iuto Assam, south through British and 2^ative Burmah, 



