44 BIRDS OF BRITISH BIJRMAH. 



439. CHRYSOPHLEGMA PUNICEUS. 

 HORSFIELD'S YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



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

 p. 58. Chloropicus puniceus, Malh. Hon. Pic. ii. p. 110, pi. Ixxiv. fig. 5-7. 

 Callolophus puniceus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 49 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. 

 p. 139 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, basal portion of the crest 

 and a broad patch on either side of the base of the lower mandible crimson ; 

 remainder of the crest yellow; back, scapulars, rump and upper tail- 

 coverts bright green, the feathers more or less margined with yellow ; 

 tail black; wing-coverts crimson; primaries black, the earlier ones 

 crimson at the base, the amount increasing till, on the last, almost the 

 entire web is crimson; secondaries black on the inner web, crimson on 

 the outer ; tertiaries brown, then pale crimson and broadly tipped with 

 bright green ; all the quills spotted with white on the inner webs ; sides 

 of the head and the whole lower plumage brownish green, paler on the 

 chin and throat ; the sides of the body spotted or barred with whitish ; 

 under wing-coverts brown spotted with white. 



The female differs in wanting the crimson patches at the base of the 

 lower mandible. 



Legs and feet pale green, sometimes dingy, sometimes slightly yellowish ; 

 claws pale greenish horny ; eyelids dull black ; orbital skin lavender-blue, 

 bright plumbeous blue, pale blue, sometimes glossed with green close to 

 the eye; irides crimson; lower mandible and base of upper mandible 

 chrome- to greenish yellow ; rest of upper mandible black ; gape lavender. 

 (Davison.) 



Length 10*5 inches, tail 4, wing 5*1, tarsus '95, bill from gape 1*3. 

 The female is considerably larger. 



Horsfield's Yellow-naped Woodpecker occurs in the southern portion of 

 Tenasserirn, where Mr. Davison states that it is not rare. 



It extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in the islands of 

 Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 



This Woodpecker inhabits the evergreen forests, occasionally coming 

 into clearings, and it appears to have a remarkable note, quite different 

 to those of the other Woodpeckers. 



