276 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 



of the feathers were red tipped with yellow. The yellow of 

 the crest does not^ however, assume the definite form repre- 

 sented in Malherbe's plate, which is misleading. The same 

 author^s figure of the female has neither the hack of C. 

 miniatwn nor of C. malaccense, and is so unsatisfactory that 

 one cannot with certainty say from which species it was 

 taken. 



C. miniatum is confined to the island of Java, whence 

 the Leiden Museum contains numerous examples. In the 

 British Museum there is a specimen of Mr. Wallace^s from 

 East Java, which in no way differs from examples procured 

 in other parts of the island. This species is clearly separable 

 from the allied one, C. malaccense, which is found in Southern 

 Tenasserim, the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, 

 and may be distinguished from the latter species by its red 

 back and beautifully developed and longer red crest, the 

 latter colour spreading on to the nuchal feathers and replacing 

 the yellow. I think there can be no doubt that some of the 

 specimens of C. miniatum in the Leiden Museum have been 

 wrongly sexed ; the birds with the spotted face are sometimes 

 marked on the collectors^ labels as males, and those with the 

 face unspotted and washed with red are occasionally labelled 

 as females. I have always considered that the reverse is the 

 case, and this view is in accordance with that of Malherbe ; 

 and when we find it to be so in the allied species C. malaccense, 

 according to such excellent collectors as Messrs. Davison, 

 Darling, and Oates, I think there can be no reason to doubt 

 that the sexual distinctions would correspond in C. mi- 

 niatum. 



6. Chrysophlegma malaccense. 



Le Pic de Malacca, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 211 (1782). 



Malaccan Woodpecker, Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. iii (1787). 



Picus malaccensis , Lath. Ind, Orn. i. p. 241 (1790); id. 

 Hist. B. iii. p. 362 (1822) ; Drap. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. 

 xiii. p. 500 (1828) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 192 (1845). 



Picus miniatus (non Forst.), Shaw & Nodd. Nat. Misc. xi. 

 pi. ccccxiii. (1800). 



