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Venilia chlorophanes , Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, 

 p. 359, no. 829, pi. dcxxix. figs. 4182, 83, females (1854). 



Chrysoplilegma chlorophanes, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 290 (1862) ; 

 Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 15; id. op. cit. 1875, p. 283; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1876, p. 390; Fairbank, op. cit. 1877, p. 396. 



Picus xanthoderus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 58 (1866) ; 

 Giebel, Tlies. Orn. iii. p. 186 (1876). 



Gecinus xanthoderus, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Miis. p. 75 

 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 191, no. 8681 (1870). 



Chrysuphlegma chlorig aster , Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 517 

 (1878) ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. Presid. p. 24 (1880) ; id. 

 Str. F. 1880, p. 386 ; Davison, op. cit. 1882, p. 298 ; id. 

 op. cit. X. p. 355 (1883). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, yellowish olive ; 

 wing-coverts rich golden olive, the lesser series varied with 

 reddish, the median and greater coverts having the inner 

 portion of the outer webs Indian red ; bastard-wing and pri- 

 mary-coverts dusky brown, the outer webs more or less 

 golden olive; quills brown, the primaries having the basal 

 portion of the outer webs Indian red, margined with yellowish 

 olive, the remaining part with a few buft'y-white lines down 

 the margin ; the outer webs of the secondaries red, slightly 

 margined and tipped with duller yellowish olive ; inner webs 

 of all spotted with white, the inner quills having a large 

 amount of bright golden olive upon both webs ; shafts brown ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellowish olive, a few of 

 the latter margined at the tip with dull red ; tail brownish 

 black, the central pair of feathers rather darker, and mar- 

 gined at the base with dull yellowish olive; dwarf feather 

 dusky brown, tipped with greenish ; shafts black ; nasal 

 plumes black ; forehead, crown, and occipital crest crimson, 

 the tips of the feathers being of this colour, the remaining 

 portion deep olive, and the bases grey ; nuchal crest bright 

 chrome-yellow ; lores dull whitish, with a black line sepa- 

 rating them from the forehead ; sides of the face and neck 

 dingy olive ; cheek-patch crimson ; a narrow white line from 

 the gape to the back of the ear-coverts, and another (but less 

 distinct) from above the posterior half of the eye, and run- 



