46 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Genus CALLOLOPHUS, Salvad. 



441. CALLOLOPHUS MENTALIS. 



THE SPOTTED-THROATED YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Picus mentalis, Temm. PL Col 384 j Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 58. Chloropicus 

 mentalis, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 112, pi. Ixxv. fig. 1, 5 & 6. Callolophus 

 mentalis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 49 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 138 ; Hume, S. F. 

 viii. p. 87. Chrysophlegma mentalis, Bl. B. Burm. p. 76. 



Description. Male. Forehead^ crown, nape, ear-coverts and feathers 

 under the eye dull green or greenish brown ; occipital crest bright yellow ; 

 back, rump, scapulars, upper tail-coverts and tertiaries green ; the edge of 

 the wing also green ; primaries dark brown, with rufous spots or bars on 

 both webs, the basal portions of the outer webs more or less crimson ; 

 secondaries with the outer webs crimson, the inner dark brown barred 

 with rufous; upper wing-coverts crimson; tail black; chin and cheeks 

 brown, spotted with dull white ; throat black, streaked with white ; sides 

 of the nape and of the neck and the breast chestnut ; remainder of lower 

 plumage dull green, tinged with yellow; under wing-coverts greenish, 

 barred with fulvous. 



The fem'ale differs in having the chin and cheeks chestnut like the 

 breast, not brown spotted with white. 



Legs and feet green; claws plumbeous; upper mandible dull black; 

 lower mandible and edges of upper mandible near nostril pale plumbeous ; 

 orbital skin dark green, at times pale green ; irides deep red. (Davison.) 



Length 11 inches, tail 4, wing 5*2, tarsus '9, bill from gape T5. The 

 female is of nearly the same size. 



The Spotted-throated Yellow-naped Woodpecker, according to Mr. 

 Davison, is found in the extreme south of Tenasserim about Bankasoon, 

 where it appears to be rare ; but Mr. Blyth received it from Mergui, much 

 further north. 



It occurs in the Malay peninsula and in the islands of Sumatra, Java 

 and Borneo. It is probably an inhabitant of dense forests, but Mr. 

 Davison makes no remark about its habits. 



