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Brachylophus puniceus, Strickl. V. 7i. S. 1811, p. 31 ; Bp. 

 Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854). 



Gecinus puniceus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; Blyth, 

 Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 59, no. 270 (1849) ; Wall. Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 96 (1855) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 77 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 192, no. 8687 

 (1870). 



Venilia puniceus , Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 128 (1850). 



Venilia punicea, Reichenh. Handb. Scans. Picinpe, p. 358, 

 no. 876, pi. dcxxviii. figs. 4176, 77, S ? ad. (1854) ; Horsf. 

 & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 664, no. 968 (1856-58); 

 Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 456. 



Chloropicus puniceus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 110, 

 pi. Ixxiv. figs. 5, 6, c? ? (1862). 



ChrysopjMegma puniceus, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 291 (1862) ; 

 Blyth & Wald. B. Burm. p. 77 (1875) ; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. 

 ii. p. 44 (1883). 



Callolophus jmniceus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 49 (1874) ; 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 103; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 36; Hume 

 & Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 139 (1878) ; Hume, op. cit. 1879, 

 p. 88; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 242 ; id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 792 ; 

 Guillemard, op. cit. 1885, p. 405 ; Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. 

 Mus. ix. p. 23 (1887). 



Chrysophlegma puniceum, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. 

 Nat. Geuova, ser. 2, iv. pp. 519, 529 (1887). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, yellowish olive, 

 the feathers of the lower back tipped with chrome-yellow ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts brighter than the back, espe- 

 cially the former, which is nearly uniform pale chrome- 

 yellow ; wing-coverts bright Indian-red, the margins of all, 

 particularly the lesser series, being brilliant crimson ; bastard- 

 wing brownish black, the feathers tipped with red, and the 

 edge of the wing spotted with bufiy white ; primary-coverts 

 brownish black, externally margined with bright red ; quills 

 brownish black, the primaries having the outer webs red at 

 the base, the remaining portion being washed with greenish, 

 the inner webs spotted with white at the base, these spots 

 becoming confluent and forming a white margin to the fea- 



