444 PICID^E. 



lower mandible from pale plumbeous to bluish white ; legs dingy green ; irides 

 red. (Damson.) 



Length. \Q'$ inches; tail 4 ; wing 5-3 ; tarsus cv8 ; bill from gape 1-3. 



Hab. Tenasserim, extending south to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and 

 Borneo. Affects evergreen forests, and Gates adds is also partial to mangrove 

 swamps. 



1052. CallolophuS puniceus (Horsf.), Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 

 49; Hume and Dav.y Sir. F. vi. p. 139 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 88. Picus 

 puniceus, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Socy. xiii. p. 176; Sundev., Consp. Av. Pic. p. 

 58. Chloropicus puniceus, Malh., Mon. Pic. ii. p. I IO, pi. Ixxiv., figs. 5 7. 

 Chrysophlegma puniceus, Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 44. HORSFIELD'S 

 YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Whole top of head (except the lengthened crest feathers, which are yellow), 

 a patch on each side below gape, the wing coverts, bases of the primaries, 

 outer webs of the secondaries, and a mesial patch on the tertiaries, crimson ; 

 inner web of the primaries and also of the secondaries black, spotted with white ; 

 tail black ; back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts green, the feathers 

 margined with yellow ; tertiaries broadly tipped with green ; sides of the head 

 and under surface of the body brownish green, paler on the chin and throat ; 

 flanks spotted or barred with white ; under wing coverts brown, spotted with 

 white. The female has not the crimson patch at the base of the upper man- 

 dible : upper mandible greenish yellow at base and black for its terminal 

 length ; lower mandible greenish yellow ; irides crimson ; legs pale green ; 

 orbital skin lavender blue. 



Length. ID'S inches ; tail 4 to 4-2 ; wing 5 to 5-1 ; tarsus 0-95 ; bill from 

 gape 1-3. 



Hal. Southern Tenasserim, where it inhabits evergreen forests, and only 

 occasionally comes into clearings. Extends down the Malay Peninsula 

 and the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



Gen. Chrysophlegma. Gould. 



General characters of Callolophus, the bill slightly more curved ; the lateral 

 ridge traceable only close to the base of the bill ; culmen blunt ; tail long, 

 cuneate. 



1053. Chrysophlegma flavinucha (Gould), Jerd., B. Ind. 



p. 289, No. 173 ; Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 71 ; Hume andDav., Str. F. vi. p. 1 37 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 87 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 43. Picus flavi- 

 nucha, Gould, P, Z. S. 1833, p. 120; Sundev., Consp. Av. Pic. p. 57. 

 Chloropicus flavinucha, Malh., Mon. Pic. ii. p. 106, pi. Ixxiii., figs. 14. 

 GOULD'S or the LARGE YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



