114 CAMPEPHILIN 2. 
longer; hind-head generally with a full crest; neck thin; wings 
and tail various. 
Genus, Hemicercus, Swainson. 
Bill straight, considerably compressed, the lateral ridge slight 
near the margin; wings long, nearly reaching (when closed) to 
the end of the tail; tail very short, broad; neck short, very 
slender; feet very large; versatile toe always longer than the 
anterior one. . 
Hemicercus cordatus, Jerd. 
165.—Hemicercus canente, Lesson—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 280; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 
385. 
THE HEART-SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
3, Length, 6; expanse, 12; wing, 3°72; tail, 1:25; bill at front; 
0°88. 
?. Length, 5°75; expanse, 10°75; wing, 3°6; tail, 1:36; bill at 
front, 0°67. 
Bill bluish-black ; irides brownish-red ; legs dusky-green. 
Female, with the forehead and top of the head a narrow 
line in the middle of the inter-scapular region, rump, shoulders, 
lesser wing-coverts, and a stripe from the lower mandible 
running below the ears of a light whitish-yellow; the wing- 
coverts and tertiaries with a black heart-shaped spot near the 
tip of each feather; face, cheeks, long occipital crest, nape, 
scapulars, quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail, deep black; terti- 
aries greenish; middle of back dull blackish-green; beneath, 
chin and throat, whitish-yellow ; from throat to vent dull black- 
ish-green ; under tail-coverts black. ; 
The male differs from the female in having the forehead and 
head black, with minute whitish spots. On the centre of the 
back is a brush of dark sap-green bristly feathers, smeared with 
a viscid secretion from a gland beneath. 
Jerdon (by a slip of the pen probably) has described the 
male as the female, and vicé versd, but this has been rectified in 
the text. 
The Heart-spotted Woodpecker occurs sparingly in the forests 
west of Belgaum and on the Sahyadri Range. It has not been 
recorded from elsewhere within our limits. 
Genus, Chrysocolaptes, Biyth. 
Bill much as in typical picus, almost quite straight, strong ; 
the lateral ridge medial at first, afterwards parallel to, and 
nearer the margin; tail short, square; the four central feathers 
equal ; feet strong; hind-toe longer than the anterior-toe. 
Chrysocolaptes delesserti, Walh. 
166b¢s.—Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 385. 
