Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 267 



Mus. Civ. Geuov. xiv. p. 182, 1879), from specimens 

 procured by Dr. Beccari at Mount Singalan, and is confined 

 to the island of Sumatra, and, so far as we know, it is found 

 in the western and central portion of the island, close to 

 the Equator. Mr. Carl Bock procured it in the neigbour- 

 hood of Padang, and Mr. H. O. Forbes obtained it in the 

 forest near Hoedjoeng, Blalauw. 



3. Chrysophlegma mentale. 



Picus mentalis, Temm. PI. Col. 384, ^J (1826). 



Picus gularis, Temm. MS. ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 89 

 (1827). 



Gecinus mentalis (pt.). Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846), & 

 iii. App. p. 21 (1849) ; id. List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 77 (1868) ; 

 id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 192. no. 8686 (1870). 



Venilia mentalis, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 128 (1850). 



Brachylophus mentalis, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 31 ; Bp. 

 Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854). 



Venilia gularis, Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, p. 358. 

 no. 827, pi. dcxxviii. figs. 4180, 4181 (1854). 



Picus mentalis (pt.), Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 58 

 (1866) ; Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 167 (J876). 



C/iloropicus mentalis (pt.), Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 112, 

 pi. Ixxv. figs. 4, 5 (1862). 



Adult male. Entire back, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts uniform olive ; wing-coverts brilliant Indian red ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, margined ex- 

 ternally with green ; quills black, spotted with rufous-buff 

 upon both webs, the outer webs of the primaries red at the 

 base, this colour increasing upon each inner feather and 

 upon the secondaries covering the entire web, some of 

 the inner feathers being tipped and margined near the tip 

 with olive, the apical half of the outer webs of the primaries 

 uniform ; shafts of quills brown ; tail and tail-shafts black ; 

 nasal plumes dusky brown ; forehead, crown, lores, space 

 round the eye, and the ear-coverts dull olive, the occipital 

 feathers brighter and varied with rufous ; a few of the 

 feathers on the sides of the occiput tipped with red ; nape 



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