CHRYSOFHLEGMA. 445 



Forehead and crown reddish brown, tinged with green on the occiput and 

 nape ; posterior nuchal feathers of the crest and hind neck glossy or bright 

 yellow ; sides of the head and neck greenish brown ; upper surface of the body, 

 including the wing coverts, bright green ; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, 

 barred across with black and cinnamon red, the two latter broadly edged and 

 tipped with green ; tail black ; chin, throat and cheeks yellow, the bases of the 

 feathers black, and showing through ; foreneck greenish black ; breast dusky 

 greenish ; rest of lower plumage ashy or greyish brown ; under wing coverts 

 whitish, barred with black. The female has the chin and throat reddish brown 

 instead of yellow. Bill bluish white ; legs slaty green ; irides red ; orbital skin 

 pale green. 



Length. 13 to 14 inches ; tail S'l to S'S ; wing 6'2 to 67 j bill from gape 

 r6. 



Hab Throughout the Himalayas, extending into Assam, Sikkim and 

 Burmah, also to the hill tracts of Eastern Bengal. Jerdon says it is not rare in 

 Darjeeling at elevations of from 2,000 tc 6,000 feet. In British Burmah Gates 

 records it as abundant in most of the deep forests of Pegu and in all parts of 

 the Pegu hills. It has been met with at Tonghoo and on the Karin hills. 

 Davison found it in Tenasserim and Captain Bingham in the Thoungyeen 

 Valley. It is also recorded from Arracan by Mr. Blyth, and is said to 

 descend to the ground in search of food. 



1054. Chrysophlegma chlorolophus (Vieill.), Jerd., B. ind. 



i. p. 289, No. 174 ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 71 ; Wald. in Blyth's B. Burnt, p. 76; 

 Hume andDav., Str. F. vi. p. 138 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 87 ; Scully t. c. p. 249 ; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 45- Picus chlorolophus, Vieill., Nouv. Viet. 

 d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 78; Bonn, et Vieill. Tabl. Enc et Meth. p 1300; 

 Sundev., Consp. Av. Pic. p. 58. Chloropicus chlorolophus, Malh., Mon. PIG. 

 ii. p. 108, pi. Ixxiv., figs. I 3. The LESSER YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Forehead, a stripe on each side of the crown extending over the eyes to the 

 nape, and a patch on each side of the base of the lower mandible, crimson ; 

 crown and nape green ; occipital crest yellow ; back, scapulars, rump and 

 upper tail coverts, also the upper wing coverts, tertiaries and primary coverts 

 bright green, the latter with a golden tinge ; tail black ; primaries and second- 

 aries black, the primaries red basally on the outer web, the red increasing in 

 extent till it occupies the whole of the web of the last one ; secondaries also 

 red on the outer web, but margined with green ; both primaries and secondaries 

 barred with white on the inner webs ; side of the head and neck, also the chin, 

 throat and breast brownish green ; from the gape extends a whitish line to 

 under the ear coverts ; under surface of the body, including the flanks and 

 under wing coverts, whitish, barred with brownish green. The female has only 

 a short crimson streak on either side of the head, and the bases of the feathers 

 of the chin and throat show through. " Upper mandible horny black ; lower the 



