HEMICERCTJS. fi9 



tail black, the outer featliers barred and tipped with buff; a slight 

 trace of a buff line down the side of the neck ; abdomen grey, with 

 buffy-white edges to the feathers. 



Female. Forehead and crown olive-grey like the rest of the head. 



In the young of both sexes the crown and long nuchal crest are 

 ruddy buff, the feathers tipped with olive-grey ; in males the long 

 nuchal feathers become partly crimson, as these become olive-grey 

 the crown becomes crimson, the passage being gradual. The whole 

 mantle is buff with black spots, the rump-feathers are edged with 

 grey, and those of the lower parts with buff in very young birds. 



Bill plumbeous grey ; irides red-brown ; legs and feet plumbeous, 

 tinged greenish (Davison). 



Length 5-5; tail 1*2 ; wing 3*4 ; tarsus '6 ; bill from gape 1. 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, 

 ranging north into the extreme south of Tenasserim, a single 

 specimen having been obtained by Mr. Davison at Bankasiin. 



995. Hemicercus canente. The Heart-spotted Woodjiecker. 



Pious canente, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 215, pi. 73 (1830). 



Hemicercus canente, Slyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 282 ; id. Cat. p. 64 ; 



Horsf. ^ M. Cat. ii, p. G50 ; Jerdon, B. I. \, p. 280 ; Hume, S. F. 



iii, p. 61 ; id. Cat. no. 16o bis ; id. S. F. xi, p. 61 ; Blyth ^ Wald. 



Birds Burm. p. 74 ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 344 ; Hujne ^ Inqlis, S. I. 



V, p. 25 ; Biitler, ibid. p. 503 ; Jfutne Si' Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 127, 500 ; 



Bingham, S. F. ix, p. 161 : Oatcs, B. B. ii, p. 30 ; Harcjitt, Ibis, 



1884, p. 252 ; id. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 486 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Gen. (2) v, p. 564 ; Oates in Hume's N. i^ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 314. 

 Hemicercus cordatus, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. *S'. xi, p. 211 (1840); 



id. III. Ind. Orn. pi. xl ; Bh/th, Ibis, 1866, p. 354 ; Hume Sf Bourd. 



S. F. iv, p. 389 ; Hume, Cat. no. 165 ; Butler, S. F. ix, p. 385 ; 



Davison, S. F. x, p. 354 ; Harf/itt, Ibis, 1884, p. 257 ; id. Cat. B. M. 



xviii, p. 488 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 114. 



Coloration. Male. Top and sides of head ^vith long occipital 

 crest, nape and sides of neck, back, scapulars, upper and lower 

 tail-coverts, and tail black, the forehead and anterior portion of 

 crown with minute white spots ; a band round the hind neck, 

 connected with a median patch on the interscapulary tract and 

 running forward along the sides of the neck to the chin, including 

 the throat and malar region, buff, as are also all the wing-coverts 

 along the forearm, the ^ving-lining, and the rump ; quills black, 

 margined with buff towards the base of the inner webs ; tertiaries 

 and a few of the larger and median coverts buff, each with a heart- 

 shaped black spot near the end ; fore neck, breast, and abdomen 

 dusky olive, darker behind, flanks black. 



In the female and in the young of both sexes the forehead and 

 crown are buff. 



Bill black ; irides dark reddish brown ; legs and feet very dark 

 green, sometimes appearing almost black (Davison). 



In males, length 6*4 ; tail 1*4; wing 3-9 ; tarsus '7; bill from 

 gape 1-1. Females are rather smaller: wing 3-7; bill fi-om 

 gape "9. 



