THE SMALL YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 45 



440. CHRYSOPHLEGMA CHLOROLOPHUS. 

 THE SMALL YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Picus chlorolophus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. tfHist. Nat. xxvi. p. 78 ; Bonn, et Vieill. 

 TabL FMC. et Mcili. p. 1309; Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 58. Chloropicus 

 cliloroloplius, Malh. Mon. Fie. ii. p. 108, pi. Ixxiv. fig. 1-3. Chrysophlegma 

 chlorolophus, Jerd. B. 2nd. i. p. 289; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 71 ; Wold, in Bl B. 

 Burm. p. 76 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 138 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 87 ; Scully, 

 S. F. viii. p. 249. 



Description. Male. Forehead, a broad stripe on either side of the crown 

 over the eyes and reaching to the nape, and a large patch on either side of 

 the base of the lower mandible crimson ; crown and nape green ; a long 

 occipital crest yellow ; sides of the head and neck, chin, throat and the 

 whole breast brownish green ; a whitish line from the gape under the ear- 

 coverts ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, upper wing-coverts and 

 tertiaries bright green, the primary-coverts tinged with aureous ; tail 

 black ; primaries black, the outer webs red at the base, this colour 

 increasing in extent till on the last primary it occupies the whole web ; 

 secondaries black on the inner webs, red on the outer and margined with 

 green; both primaries and secondaries barred with white on the inner 

 webs ; abdomen, sides of the body, vent, under tail-coverts and under 

 wing-coverts dull white barred with brownish green. 



The female differs in wanting the crimson on the head of the male 

 except a short streak on either side of the nape. 



The feathers of the chin and throat are white at the base, and these 

 white bases are very plainly shown in some specimens. 



Iris bright red; eyelids lavender; upper mandible and anterior half of 

 the lower horny black ; remainder of the lower mandible lemon-yellow ; 

 legs and feet dull greenish ; claws plumbeous. 



Length 1O5 inches, tail 4, wing 5'4, tarsus '85, bill from gape 1'2. The 

 female is of the same size as the male or rather larger. 



The Small Yellow-naped Woodpecker is stated by Mr. Blyth to occur 

 in Arrakan. I found it in Pegu only between Thayetmyo and Tonghoo, 

 and it appears to avoid the damper southern portion of the Division. 

 Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo and on the Karennee hills 

 at 3000 feet elevation. In Tenasserim it was observed by Mr. Davison in 

 all parts of the Division down to about Amherst ; and Capt. Bingham 

 states that it is common in the Thoungyeen valley. 



It is found in Cachar and the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, and it 

 extends along the Himalayas from Assam to Nipal. It ranges south to 

 about Orissa. 



This Woodpecker is found alike in thick forests and in spare tree-jungle. 

 It occasionally descends to the ground. 



