Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 263 



1874, p. 472 ; id. & Gates, op. cit. 1875, pp. 12 & 71 ; 

 Blytb & Wald. B. Burm. p. 76 (1875); Hume, Str. F. 

 1877, p. 26; id. & Davison, op. cit. vi. p. 137 (1878); 

 Hume, op. cit. 1879, p. 87; Bingham, op. cit. 1880, p. 164; 

 Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 391 (1882) ; Gates, Str. F. 1882, 

 p. 191 ; id. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 43 (1883). 



Chloropicus flavinucha, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 106, 

 pi. Ixxiii. figs. 1, 2, 3 (1862). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and wing-coverts, uniform vivid glossy green; 

 bastard-wing brownish black, the feathers barred at the base 

 with rufous ; primary-coverts brownish black, externally mar- 

 gined with green and barred with rufous ; quills brownish 

 black, the outer webs of the inner primaries washed with red 

 at the base, some being edged with bright green, and the 

 whole barred with rufous ; oviter webs of the secondaries 

 partially or entirely bright green, all (except the innermost) 

 having rufous barring near the shafts ; inner webs of all 

 the quills barred with rufous, the tips of the innermost green ; 

 shafts blackish brown ; tail black, the outer and dwarf 

 feathers browner, the central being slightly margined at the 

 base of the outer webs with greenish ; shafts black ; fore- 

 head rufous mixed with dull red, the crown more varied with 

 olive ; elongated occipital feathers olive, faintly striped with 

 dull red ; nuchal crest bright golden yellow ; nasal plumes 

 brown ; lores and under the eye dirty yellowish green ; ear- 

 coverts and side of the face dingy olive ; cheeks, chin, and 

 throat lemon-yellow ; side of the neck and fore neck blackish 

 olive, the extreme base and basal margins of the feathers of the 

 latter being white, partly visible, and giving a striped appear- 

 ance ; chest dull olive ; underparts grey, with a dusky olive 

 tinge, the thighs and under tail-coverts washed with yel- 

 lowish; under wing- coverts yellowish on the edge of the 

 wing, the remainder white, the whole being varied with pale 

 rufous and barred with dusky olive ; axillaries white, the 

 outer webs tinged with dusky greenish ; under surface of 

 the wing black, broadly barred with rufous, the barring 

 extending across the shafts; tips of the outer primaries 



