370 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Germs Chrysophlegma. 



Chrysophelgema mentalis (non Temm.), Jerd. B. Ind. i. 

 p. 291 (1862) ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 472 ; Blytli & Wald. 

 B. Burm. p. 7Q>. no. 115 (1875) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. 

 p. 391 (1882). 



Chloropicus mentalis (pt.), Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 112, 

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



Callolophus mentalis (non Temm.) Salvad. Ucc. Born, 

 p. 49 (1874) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 9 ; Hume & Davison, 

 Str. F. vi. p. 138 (1878) ; Hume, op. cit. 1879, pp. 52, 87 ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 242 ; Salvad, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. 

 xiv. p. 181 (1879); Gates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 46 (1883) ; 

 Guillemard, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 405. 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, uniform bright green, the rump-feathers tipped 

 with yellow ; wing-coverts bright Indian red, olive along the 

 forearm ; bastard-wing dusky brown, the feathers edged 

 with green ; primary-coverts dusky brown, edged externally 

 with red and spotted upon the inner webs with pale rufous 

 brown ; quills brownish black, the primaries externally mar- 

 gined at the base with Indian red and barred with rufous ; 

 the outer webs of the secondaries almost entirely Indian 

 red, spotted with rufous near the shafts ; inner webs of all 

 the quills having large rufous spots or bars ; some of the 

 innermost quill-feathers having the outer web and tip green ; 

 shafts black ; tail, likewise the shafts, black ; forehead, 

 crown, and occipital crest olive ; nuchal crest chrome-yellow, 

 the bases of the upper feathers being rufous ; upon the lower 

 part of the hind neck an indication of a rufous collar ; 

 lores and side of the face, including ear-coverts, dusky olive; 

 cheeks blackish brown, barred with dull white; chin and throat 

 white, each feather having a broad central stripe of black ; side 

 of the neck, chest, and a band across the hind neck rufous ; 

 underparts and under tail-coverts olive, the latter more dusky; 

 under wing-coverts pale rufous, washed with yellowish and 

 having olive and blackish barring. Total length 10*75 inches, 

 culmen 1*4, wing 5"3, tail 3'7, tarsus 0*9; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0*8, outer posterior 0'65, inner 

 anterior 0*55, inner posterior 0'4. 



