CHEYSOCOLAPTES. Q5- 



J. A. S. B. xxxviii, pt. 2, p. 168 : Admn, S. F. i, p. 373; Ball, 

 S. F. ii, p. 391 ; vii, p. 206 ; Butler, S. F. iii, p. 458 ; ix, p. 385 ; 

 Hume, Cat. no. 167 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 52; Legge, Birds Ceyl. 

 p. 191 ; Davidson, S. F. x, p. 297; Hume, ib. p. 355; Barnes, Birds 

 Bom. p. 1 15 ; Harqitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 445 ; Oates in Hime's 

 N. ^' E. 2nd ed. ii " p. 312. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead with large biiffy-white spots on a 

 brown ground ; long feathers of crown and occiput crimson, a black 

 border, often mixed with white anteriorly, to the crown ; hind neck 

 and middle of upper back white ; remainder of back, scapulars, 

 smaller wing-coverts along the forearm, tail-coverts and tail black ; 

 larger and median secondary-coverts olive with golden-yellow edges, 

 outer ^^•ebs of secondaries golden olive, rest of quill-feathers 

 brownish black, all outer webs with spots, brownish or greenish 

 outside, white inside, inner webs with large white spots ; sides of 

 head and neck and underparts white or huffy white, except a 

 broad black band from each eye dowai the side of the neck, two 

 black lines on each malar region, the two meeting at the side 

 of the throat, and a median line down the throat, or five lines 

 in all ; breast-feathers with broad black lateral margins producing 

 a striped appearance, abdominal with narrower and less defined 

 borders ; under tail-coverts mixed black and white. 



Female. Coronal and occipital feathers golden yellow, broad 

 forehead spotted as in the male. In young males the crest- 

 feathers are dull scarlet, in young females the yellow crest-feathers 

 have red tips. 



Bill dusky blackish ; irides crimson ; legs and feet horny 

 plumbeous (Jerdon). 



Length about 12-5 ; tail 3-5 ; wing 6-25 ; tarsus I'l ; bill from 

 gape 2-2. 



Distribution. This Woodpecker is found throughout the greater 

 part of the Indian Peninsula and Ceylon, in forest-tracts, ranging 

 to Dehra Diin and the Oudh Terai in the north, the Aravalli Hills 

 to the west, Behar and Chutia Nagpur to the east. On Ithe 

 Malabar coast it appears to be much less common than the next 

 species, but has been recorded from Eatnagiri, Goa, and the 

 Nilgiris. It is, as a rule, rare or very locally distributed. 



Habits, ^c. This, though a forest bird, is not an inhabitant of 

 thick jungle, and has been observed in cultivation occasionally. 

 According to Davidson it breeds in the hills around Khandesh 

 in November, December, and January, and lays a single white egg 

 in a hole in a tree as usual. Generally a new hole is cut out every 

 year. 



992. Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus. TickelVs Golden-backed 



Woodpecker. 



Picus guttacristatus, Tickell, J. A. 8. B. ii, p. 578 ? (1833). 

 Picus sultaneus, Hodcjs. J. A. S. B. vi, p. 105 (1837). 

 Picus strictus, apud Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xi, p. 210. 

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