274 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 



Picus miniatus (pt.), Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 98 (1827) ; 

 Vig. Mem. Raffl. p. 669 (1830); Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. 

 p. 59 (1866); Giebel, Thes. Oru. p. 168 (1876). 



Malacolophus [Brachylophus) miniatus, Swains. Classif. B. 

 ii. p. 308 (1837). 



Gecinus miniatus (pt.), Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; 

 id. List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 75 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. 

 p. 191. no. 8682 (1870). 



Chloropicos miniatus (pt.), Malh. N. Classif. Mem. Acad. 

 Metz, 1848-49, p. 350. 



Venilia miniatus (pt.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 128 

 (1850) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 664 

 (1856-58). 



Br achy tophus miniatus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 31 ; Bp. 

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



Venilia miniata (pt.), Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, 

 p. 358. no. 830, pi. dcxxix. figs. 4184-85 (1854). 



Chloropicus miniatus (pt.), Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 116, 

 pi. Ixxvi. figs. 1, 2 (1862). 



Adult male. Upper and middle back wasted with bright 

 Indian red upon a ground of dusky olive, barred and spotted 

 with pale yellow ; scapulars and wing-coverts Indian red ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish brown, red ex- 

 ternally ; quills blackish brown, the primaries having their 

 outer webs margined with red at the base, this colour ex- 

 tending further up the web on each inner feather, the re- 

 maining part of the outer webs obliquely spotted with buff, 

 the basal half of the inner webs transversely spotted with 

 bufly white ; outer webs of the secondaries red, the inner 

 webs transversely spotted with buffy white on the basal half, 

 the spots on the innermost feathers having a barred cha- 

 racter ; shafts of primaries pale brown, those of the secon- 

 daries blackish brown ; lower back and rump washed with 

 lemon-yellow on a ground of dusky olive, spotted and barred 

 with white, the yellow being confined to the margin and tip 

 of each feather ; upper tail-coverts blackish brown spotted 

 with white, some of the uppermost having a yellowish margin 

 and the spots bar-like ; tail brownish black ; shafts black ; 



