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1050. CallOlOphuS mentaliS (Temm.)> Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 49 ; 

 Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 138; Hume, Sir. F vii. p. 87; Oates, 

 B. Br. Burnt, ii. p. 46. Picus mentalis, Temm., PI. Col. 384 ; Sundev., 

 Consp. Av. Pic. p. 58. Chloropicus mentalis, Malh., Mon. Pic. ii. p. 112, 

 pi. Ixxv., figs, i, 5 and 6. Chrysophlegma mentalis, Blyth,\B. Burm. p. 76. 

 The SPOTTED-THROATED YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Forehead, crown, nape, ear coverts, and feathers under the eye dull green 

 or greenish brown ; occipital crest bright yellow ; back, rump, scapulars, 

 upper tail coverts and tertiaries green ; edge of the wing green ; primaries 

 dark brown, with rufous spots or bars on both webs, the basal portion of the 

 outer webs more or less crimson ; secondaries with the outer webs crimson ; 

 the inner dark brown, barred with rufous ; upper wing coverts crimson ; tail 

 black ; chin and cheeks brown, spotted with dull white ; throat black, streaked 

 with white ; sides of the nape and of the neck and breast chestnut ; remainder 

 of lower plumage dull green, tinged with yellow ; under wing coverts greenish, 

 barred with fulvous The female differs inhaving the chin and cheeks chestnut 

 like the breast, not brown, spotted with white. (Gates.) Legs and feet green ; 

 upper mandible dull black ; lower mandible and edges of upper mandible near 

 the nostrils pale plumbeous ; orbital skin green ; irides deep red. (Davison.) 



Length. n inches ; tail 4 ; wing 5*2 ; tarsus 0*9 ; bill from gape 1*5. 



Hab. Extreme south of Tenasserim about Bankasoon (Davison), extend- 

 ing to the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



1051. Callolophus malaccensis (Lath.), Salvad., Ucc. Born. 

 p. 50 ; Tiveedd., Ibis, 1877, p. 288 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 140 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. viii. p. 88 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 47. Picus malaccensis, 

 Lath., Ind. Orn.\. p. 241. Chloropicus miniatus, apud Malh., Mon. Pic. ii. 

 p. 116, pi. Ixxvi., figs. 1 3. Picus miniatus, apud Sundev., Consp. Av. Pic. 

 p. 59 (part). Venilia malaccensis, Sclater, P. Z S. 1863, p. 211. The 

 MALACCAN YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Forehead, crown, and frontal feathers of the crest, also the wing coverts, 

 bases of the outer webs of the primaries, and all the secondaries, tertiaries, 

 and scapulars crimson ; primaries dark brown, spotted on their outer webs and 

 barred on their inner with yellowish white ; secondaries barred in like manner 

 on their inner webs only; longer crest feathers on the nape yellow; sides 

 of the head mixed brown and crimson ; neck behind and back greenish, barred 

 with yellowish ; rump bright yellow, indistinctly barred with green ; upper tail 

 coverts brown, tipped with pale yellow ; tail black ; chin, throat, sides of the 

 neck and breast dull buff; remainder of lower plumage bufnsh white, closely 

 barred with brown ; under wing coverts bufnsh, barred with brown. The 

 female differs in not having any crimson on the sides of the face and in 

 having the forehead, lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, chin and throat 

 tipped with white, preceded by a black bar. Upper mandible of bill black, 



