400 MAXUAI. OF PHILIPPINE BIKDS. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having forehead, crown, and crest 

 olive greenish tinged with red, each feather with a light yellow spot near 

 its tip. Wing, 147 ; tail, 97 ; culmen from base, 42 : tarsus, 37. 



"Young female. — Eesembles the adult male in having the top of the 

 head and the crest entirely red, bnt the color is scarlet (not crimson) and 

 the feathers are extremely soft; there is less red on the face and upper 

 part of the side of the neck, and only a tinge of this color on the chin 

 and throat; the general color above and on the wings is more olive, and 

 the feathers of the back, the scapulars, the lesser and median wing- 

 coverts are margined with reddish orange ; the scapulars and the feathers 

 of the back and rump have the partially exposed black bases spotted with 

 white; on the outer primaries there is a subapical spot of dull white. 

 Described from a specimen sexed feinale by Mr. John Whitehead." 

 {HargUt.) 



"Much less common than T. everetti. Xever met with outside of the 

 forest; feeds on insect larvae. A male measures, 374 in length; wing, 

 147; tail, 81; culmen, 41; tarsus, 36; middle toe with claw, 32. Three 

 females average, 374 in length : wing, 147 ; tail, 86 ; culmen, 37 ; tarsus, 

 25; middle toe with claw, 31. Iris dark red; legs and feet dirty olive, 

 nails lighter; bill white at tip, greenish yellow at base." (Boiir?).'^ and 

 Worcester MS.) 



364. CHRYSOCOLAPTES H/EMATRIBON (VYagler). 



LUZON GOLDEN FLICKER. 



Piciis hcematrihon Wagler, Syst. Av. Picus ( 1827), sp. 95 $. 

 Chrysocolaptes hcematrihon Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 

 454; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 228; McGregor and Worcester, 

 Hand-List (1906), 65. 

 Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Mollendorff, Steere Exp., ^Yhitchead, Worcester, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) . 



Male. — Head, wings, and upper parts deep crimson; hind neck bhujk 

 with large pale buff spots; tail dark seal-brown with black shafts; under 

 parts pale fulvous-buff; a black median line on upper throat and two 

 black lines on each side of throat; lower throat and breast black, each 

 feather with a large round buffy white spot; lower breast and abdomen 

 faintly barred with dusky brown. Bill black; legs dirty greenish; nails 

 brown. Length, 275; wing, 140; tail. 92; culmen from base, 40; 

 tarsus, 39. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having top of head black, each 

 feather with a small, sharply defined, white spot. Wing, 142; tail, 88; 

 culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 24. 



