CAMPEPHILIN &. 115 
‘THE SOUTHERN LARGE GOLDEN-BACKED WOODPECKER, 
Length, 11°5; expanse, 18°75; wing, 5°75; tail, 4; bill at 
front, 17. 
Bill slaty ; irides yellow; legs slaty. 
Male: top of the head and crest crimson; upper back and 
greater part of the wings externally golden-yellow; lower part 
of back shining carmine-red; band from the eyes, surrounding 
the forehead, ruddy-brown, passing through the eye, and chang- 
ing into a wide black neck-stripe; above this, between it and 
the crest is a narrow white line; the dorsal aspect of the neck 
also white ; primaries wholly blackish, with three or four white 
spots on the inner webs of all the feathers; upper tail-coverts 
and tail black; beneath the neck is anteriorly white, with five 
black gular stripes; breast black, more or less brunnescent, 
with large central drops of white; the rest of the body, below, 
and lining of the wings, white, transversely barred with black. 
The female has the cap black, with a white drop on each 
feather. 
This Woodpecker only differs from Chrysocolaptes sultaneus, 
Hodgs., in its smaller size. 
It is a not uncommon permanent resident all along the Sahya- 
dri Range, but has not been recorded from elsewhere within 
our limits. 
Chrysocolaptes festivus, Bodd. 
167.—Chrysocolaptes goensis, Gmel.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 282; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 
458; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 385; Swinhoe and 
Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 62. 
THE BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER, 
Length, 12:2 to 12°5; expanse, 19°5 to 20°5 ; wings, 6 to 6 25 ; 
tail, 3-4 to 3:5; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 1°9 to 2. 
5 Bill dusky-blackish ; irides crimson ; legs and feet horny-plum- 
eous. 
Crown and occiput of the male splendid crimson ; forehead 
mingled black and white ; lores white ; a white streak begins be- 
hind the eye, and is continued to the nape, the entire hind-part 
of the neck being wholly white, and extending down upon the 
interscapulars ; the rest of the back, scapulars, rump, and tail, 
are brownish-black, having a slight aureous cast on the scapulars; 
wings, with their coverts and secondaries, bright golden-yellow ; 
bend of the wing, winglet, and coverts of the primaries, as also the 
primaries, dusky black, with distant, large, round whitish spots on 
their inner webs, and similar dull spots on the outer webs ; a broad 
black streak, down the sides of the neck, from the eye, beneath, the 
throat white, with three black stripes ; the rest of the body, be- 
neath, more or less streaked ; the feathers of the breast white, with 
black lateral edges, which last gradually all but disappear on 
the belly, vent and lower tail-coverts. 
