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crest of loose-textured feathers bright yellow; back, scapulars, 

 tertiaries, and rump olive-green, paler than the head ; ^\•iug-coverts. 

 outer borders of secondaries throughout, and of primaries near 

 base dull red; remainder of wiug-feathers brown, secondaries 

 broadly barred on the inner webs and primaries on both webs, 

 except" near the tips, with rufous ; tail black ; a broad malar band 

 from the lower mandible dark olive, sometimes brown, spotted 

 with w hite ; feathers of the chin and throat white, each with a 

 broad brown shaft-stripe; sides of neck, fore neck, and upper 

 breast bright chestnut, this colour passing round to the hind neck 

 behind the crest ; lower parts from breast olive-green, rather more 

 olive than the back. Under wing-coverts barred brown and pale 

 rufous or dirty orange. 



In the female the chin and malar band are chestnut like the 

 breast and not spotted. 



Upper mandible dull black, lower mandible and edges of upper 

 near nostrils pale plumbeous : irides deep red ; orbital skin green : 

 legs and feet green ; claws plumbeous. 



Length 11 ; tail 3-9 ; wing 5-25 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from gape 1-5. 



Dlstrihiitlon. Malayan Peuinsula, Borneo and Sumatra, extend- 

 ing north into the southern extremity of the Tenasserim provinces, 

 where this A\^oodpecker is rare. The true C. mentale, long sup- 

 posed to be identical with the present species, is peculiar to Java. 



Genus CALLOLOPHUS, Salvadori, 1874. 



This genus was proposed for three species : C. punicevs, which 

 belongs to Gecinus, C. mentalis {Chrysoplilerjma Jiumii), and 

 C. malaccensis, no type being named. The last-named species has 

 been placed in ChrysoiMe(jma by Hargitt, but it and its near ally 

 C. mimatus, which is confined to Java, exhibit a widely different 

 coloration from that characteristic of Chrysophlcfima, the plumage 

 being barred both above and below. This is, I think, especially 

 amongst Woodpeckers, a more important generic distinction than 

 slight differences in the form of the bill. 



Calloloplms has a long and broad occipital crest, and the bill is 

 shorter, more curved, and broader at the base than that of 

 Chrysopldegma . 



957. Callolophus malaccensis. The Banded Red Wood,pecl:er. 



Pious malaccensis, Lath. Lid. Orn. i, p. 241 (1790) ; Blyth,J. A. S. B. 



xiv, p. 192. 

 Gecinus malaccensis, Blyth, Cat. p. .59. 

 Cbrysophlegma malaccensis, Hume, S. F. iii, p. 324. 

 Callolophus malaccensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. v, p. oO : 



Lfimie ^- Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 140, 501 ; Hume, Cat. no. 17o quat. ; 



Oates, B. B. ii, p. 47. 

 Cbrysophlegma malaccense, Hargitt, Ldis, 1886, p. 276 ; id. Cat. 



B. M. xviii, p. 122. 



