443 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Picus fulviscapus (pt.), Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 593. 

 Adult male. Above, including scapulars, olive barred with 

 yellowish ; wing-coverts dusky olive (brighter along the fore- 

 arm), spotted with white ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts 

 dusky brown ; quills dusky brown, the outer webs more or 

 less yellowish olive and spotted with bufFy white ; inner webs 

 spotted with pure white, some of the inner feathers being 

 dingy olive barred with dull whitish; shafts golden yellow; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts like the back, but having the 

 barring and tips of the feathers more golden ; tail blackish 

 brown, the feathers more or less washed with olive and barred 

 with lighter brown, the tips (except those of the central pair) 

 very pale brown ; dwarf feather dusky brown, barred with 

 dull white ; shafts golden yellow ; forehead and greater part 

 of the crown ochrcous umber-brown, the remainder and 

 occipital crest scarlet ; hind neck dusky broAvn ; lores and 

 superciliary stripe white ; sides of the face and neck white, 

 striped with brown ; moustachial stripe brown ; chin and 

 throat white, the latter striped with blackish; entire under- 

 parts pale yellow narrowly striped with blackish, the thighs 

 being barred; under tuil-coverts dull yellowish white, barred 

 with and having V-shaped markings of brownish; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish white, the former 

 streaked or spotted, the latter slightly tipped with blackish. 

 Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 3"6, tail 1'8, 

 tarsus 0"65 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*45, outer 

 posterior 0*55, inner anterior 0*35, inner posterior 0"25. 



Young male [first yearns plumage). Above olive dusky, 

 faintly barred with dingy yellowish white but having a 

 spotted appearance ; wing-coverts of the same colour as the 

 back and spotted with dull yellowish white ; quills as in the 

 adult, but the olive on the outer webs more dingy and the 

 spotting whiter ; shafts white ; rump like the back, but the 

 barring less distinct ; upper tail-coverts less golden than in 

 the adult, the tips slightly reddish ; tail dusky black barred 

 with grey, the central pair of feathers slightly washed with 

 dull olive ; shafts yellowish white, slightly dusky olive at the 

 tips ; sinciput brownish dusky ; remainder of the crown and 



