CHRYSOCOLAPTES. 451 



Whole top of the head, nape, sides, and back of the neck ashy, the feathers 

 minutely speckled with greyish \vhite; upper surface of the body, including 

 the wing coverts, slaty blue; upper tail coverts brown ; tail brown, washed with 

 ashy; quills dark brown, the margins of their outer webs slaty; sides of the 

 head ashy, the ear coverts rather darker ; cheeks with a patch of red ; chin 

 and throat deep saffron yellow ; under surface of the body dull slaty or ashy, 

 the feathers with whitish specks and streaks. The female has not the red 

 cheek patch. Bill bluish white ; the culmen and tip black ; irides dark hazel 

 brown ; legs dark plumbeous. 



Length. 2Q-$ inches ; tail 7*5 ; wing 9*4 ; tarsus 1-5; bill from gape 3*0. 



Hab. British Burmah, in Pegu, Arracan, the Karin hills and Tenasserim. 

 It extends southwards through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, 

 and Cochin-China. Northwards it is recorded from the Khasia hills, and it 

 is said to occur at the foot of the Himalayas, in Oudh and Nepaul. Captain 

 Bingham is said to have found the nest of this great Slaty Woodpecker, one of 

 the Oriental giants of the family, in Tenasserim during April. Eggs, two in 

 number only, white and glossy. 



Gen. Chrysocolaptes. Blyth. 



General characters of the last ; lateral ridge medial at first, then parallel 

 to and nearer the margin ; head crested ; tail short and square ; four central 

 feathers, equal ; feet strong ; hind toe longer than the anterior one. 



1065. ClirySOCOlapteS StrictuS (Horsf.), Salvad, Ucc. Borneo 

 p. 48 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 154; Butler, Str. F. ix. p. 238; Oates, B. Br. 

 Burm. ii. p. 53. Picus striatus, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Socjy. xiii. p. 176. 

 Picus guttacristatus, Tick., J . A. S. B. ii. p. 578. Picus sultaneus, Hodgs., 

 J. A. S. B. vi. p< 105 ; Sundev., Consp. Av. Pic. p. 79. Indopicus delesserti, 

 Malh., Mem. acad. Metz. 1849, i.e. p. 77, p.lxiv., figs. 13. Indopicus strictus, 

 Malh. t.c. p. 80, pl.lxv., figs. I 5. Chrysocolaptes sultaneus, Jerd., B. Ind. I. 

 p. 281, No. 166; Ball, Str. F. ii. p. 391 ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 64; Arm- 

 strong, Str. F. iv. p. 310 ; Inglis, Str. F. vi. p. 26 ; Hume and Dav. y Str. F. 

 vi. p. 133 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 87. Chrysocolaptes delesserti, Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs Ind. B. p. 123 ; Bourdillon, Str. F. iv. p. 380 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. 

 p. 87. Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus, Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. p. 75. The 

 SOUTHERN GOLDEN-BACKED WOODPECKER. 



Frontal band at base of upper mandible ruddy brown, continued through the 

 eye, and gradually changing into blackish as a stripe on the neck ; top of head, 

 crest, and nape deep crimson ; back of neck mottled with black and white ; 

 superciliary streak over the eye, over the ear coverts, another sub-orbital one 

 reaching to under the ear coverts, a third and fourth from the gape down the 

 sides of the throat, black ; the space between these two latter white ; ear 

 coverts black; upper back, scapulars, wing coverts and tertiaries golden 



