400 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Female.—Difters from the male in having forehead, crown, and crest 
olive greenish tinged with red, each feather with a light yellow spot near 
its tip. Wing, 147; tail, 97; culf®n from base, 42; tarsus, 27. 
“Young female.—Resembles the adult male in having the top of the 
head and the crest entirely red, but the color is scarlet (not crimson) and 
the feathers are extremely soft; there is less red on the face and upper 
part of the side of the neck, and only a tinge of this color on. the chin 
and throat; the general color above and on the wings is more olive, and 
the feathers of the back, the scapulars, the lesser and median wing- 
coverts are margined with reddish orange; the scapulars and the feathers 
of the back and rump have the partially exposed black bases spotted with 
white; on the outer primaries there is a subapical spot of dull white. 
Described from a specimen sexed female by Mr. John Whitehead.” 
(Iargitt. ) 
“Much less common than 7’. everetli. Never met with outside of the 
forest; feeds on insect larve. A male measures, 274 in length; wing, 
147; tail, 81; culmen, 41; tarsus, 26; middle toe with claw, 32. Three 
females average, 274 in length; wing, 147; tail, 86; culmen, 37; tarsus, 
25; middle toe with claw, 31. Ivis dark red; legs and feet dirty olive, 
nails lighter; bill white at tip, greenish yellow at base.” (Bourns and 
Worcester MS.) 
364. CHRYSOCOLAPTES HAZMATRIBON (Wagler). 
LUZON GOLDEN FLICKER. 
Picus hematribon WAGLER, Syst. Av. Picus (1827), sp. 95 9. 
Chrysocolaptes hematribon Hareirt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 
454; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 228; McoGrrcor and WORCESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 65. 
Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Méllendorff, Steere Hap., Whitehead, Worcester, Mc- 
Gregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Hap.). 
Male.—Head, wings, and upper parts deep crimson; hind neck black 
with large pale buff spots; tail dark seal-brown with black shafts; under 
parts pale fulvous-buff; a black median line on upper throat and two 
black lines on each side of throat; lower throat and breast black, each 
feather with a large round buffy white spot; lower breast and abdomen 
faintly barred with dusky brown. Bill black; legs dirty greenish; nails 
brown. Length, 275; wing, 140; tail, 92; culmen from base, 40; 
‘tarsus, 29. 
Female.—Differs from the male in having top of head black, each 
feather with a small, sharply defined, white spot. Wing, 142; tail, 88; 
culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 24. 
