igiS.] recently collected in Sium. Ill 



C.f. xvrayi Sharpe, from the mountains of the Malay States . 

 in C. f. Jlavinucha the lores are well clad with feathers 

 concolorous with the forehead. 



This form differs from C. f. pierrei Oust, (specimens from 

 Lat Bua Kao, E. Siam) in the paler bill and iu the nearly- 

 black, instead of brown, centres to the feathers of the fore- 

 neck ; it also has the sides of the head^ neck, forehead_, and 

 crown rather darker. 



From C. /. wrat/i Sharpe it is separated by larger size ; 

 more white on the feathers of the fore-neck, the black of 

 whicli is not continued in two lines to the base of the 

 mandible to form distinct yellow chin and malar patches ; 

 much paler under surface ; larger yellow nuchal crest and 

 paler bill, that of wrayi being slate-coloured. 



I have not seen C. f. ricketti Styan, of Fokien, S. China, 

 nor C. f. styani Grant, of Hainan, but {fide Grant, 'Ibis,' 

 1899. p. 588 ; Bonhote, P. Z. S. 1901, p. 71j both have dark 

 chins and almost white malar patches ; the former is as 

 large as C. /, Jlavinucha, while the latter is of the size of 

 wrayi, but has the largest bill of all. 



I have compared C. f. lyJei with examples of Jlavinucha 

 from Darjeeling lent to me by the Indian Museum, together 

 with a male bird from ''Burma'-" (coll. Dr. Williams), which 

 differs from them in having the white of the fore-neck con- 

 fined to the extreme bases of the feathers and entirely 

 concealed by the long black ends. 



This Woodpecker is named in honour of Mr. T. H. Lyle, 

 H.B.M. Consul at Bangkok, and once an enthusiastic 

 collector of mammals, in recognition of the assistance and 

 courtesy received from him during my two visits to Siam. 



~f- 60. Chrysocolaptes strictus gutticristatus (Tickell). 



Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus indomalayicus Gyldenstolpe, 

 Kungl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1. No. 8, 1913, p. 49. 



Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus gutticristatus Gyldenstolpe, 

 op. cit. Ivi. No. 2, 1916, p. 95. 



3 (J , 1 (S . Lat Bua Kao. 



Iris yellow or pinkish-yellow ; eyelids black ; bill blackish, 



