252 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



forehead^ crowu^ and entire crest olive-grey. Total length 

 5*2 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 3"35, tail 1*2; tarsus 0'65. 



This being a rare species in collections, I have only had 

 an opportunity of examining the specimens contained in the 

 British and Leiden Museums, and cannot give all the stages 

 of plumage through which the species passes. I therefore 

 append those at present known to me. 



Male, young. Forehead and crown bright rufous buff ; occi- 

 pital and nuchal crest bright flame-red. 



Male, adult. Forehead, crown, and entire crest scarlet. 



Female, adult. Forehead, crown, and crest olive-grey, and 

 resembling the adult female of H. sordidus. 



The present species is confined to the Island of Java. 

 Other localities have been assigned to it, but in the large 

 series of specimens of Hemicercus from other localities which 

 I have examined in the collections of the British and Leiden 

 Museums, in that of Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, as well as in 

 my own cabinet, I have not seen a bird that could be mis- 

 taken for the present species, the red crown and crest of the 

 adult male, and the uniform brilliant flame-coloured crest of 

 the young, clearly distinguishing it from H. sordidus. 



3. Hemicercus canente. 



Pieus canente, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 215, pi. Ixxiii. (1830) ^ ; 

 id. Belang. Voy. iii. p. 240 (1834) c?; id. Compl. Buff. ix. 

 p. 305 (1837) ; Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 146 (1876). 



Hemicercus canente. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1845); Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. XV. p. 282 (1846); id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

 p. 54 (1849) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.L Co. ii. 

 p. 650 (1856-58) ; Jerd. (pt.) B. Ind. i. p. 280 (1862) ; Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. 1863, p. 75 ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 176 

 (1863); Blyth, Ibis, 1866, pp. 349-354; Gray, List. Picid. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 71 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 190, no. 8668 

 (1870); Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 169; Blanford, t. c. p. 464; 

 Elwes, t. c. p. 527; Hume & Davison, Str. F. 1874, p. 471 ; 

 id. & Gates, op. cit. 1875, pp. 14, 60; Blyth & Wald. B. 

 Burm. 1875, p. 74; Wald. Ibis, 1876, p. 344; Hume, Str. 



