64 piciD^. 



edges of the featliers brighter ; rump-feathers the same, but the 

 edges sometimes tinged with red ; primary -coverts and wing- 

 feathers blackish brown, the inner webs of the latter with a few 

 round \\hite spots towards the base, the primaries tipped with 

 whitish and having occasionally a few very small pale spots on the 

 outer webs ; upper tail-coverts dark brown ; tail black ; chin 

 and throat white sullied with fulvous ; remaining lower parts 

 ohve-brovvn, the flanks and under wing-coverts spotted white. 



Female. The crimson of the head and nape is replaced by black ; 

 forehead yellowish brown. 



Upper mandible and tip of lower black or bluish, rest of lower 

 mandible plumbeous ; irides deep brown ; legs and feet dark 

 green. 



Length 12 ; tail 4-6 ; wing .5-7 ; tarsus 1 ; bill from gape 1-5. 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, ranging into Tena.sserim to 

 a little north of the latitude of Moulmein ; also Sumatra and 

 Borneo. 



Habits, <^c. According to Davison this Woodpecker much 

 resembles Ticja javanensis in its habits and voice. It keeps to 

 evergreen forests, is found singly or in pairs, and is not shy. 

 It is seen on fallen trees but not on the ground. 



Genus CHRYSOCOLAPTES, Blyth, 1843. 



Bill stout and long, culmen nearly straight ; nasal ridge strongly 

 marked, commencing at base of bill halfway between culmen and 

 commissure ; nostrils elongate, exposed. Feet large, first or hind 

 toe well developed ; fourth toe longer than third ; claws very large. 

 Head large and conspicuously crested, neck very small. Outer pair 

 of tail-feathers just exceeding the coverts in length. Plumage 

 very like that of Bmchyptemus ; yellow or red above ; white, the 

 feathers edged with black, below. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown of male red, of female yellow ; back 



black _. . C.festivus, p. 64. 



h. Crown of male red, of female black with 

 white spots. 



a'. Back p;olden olive C. guttlcristatvs, p. 65. 



V . Back red C. stricklandi, j). G7. 



991. Chrysocolaptes festivus. The Black-bacl-cd Woodpecker. 



Pious festivus, Boddaei-t, TaU. PL Enl. p. 4.3, no. 696 (1783). 

 Piens goensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 4.34 (1788). 

 Dendrocopus elliotii, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xi, p. 212 (1840). 

 Picus (Chrysocolaptes) melauotus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 1005 



(1843). 

 Chrysocolaptes goensis, Blyth, Cat. p. 55 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 282. 

 Chrysocolaptes festivus, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 355 ; Blanford, 



