THE MALACCAN YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 47 



442. CALLOLOPHUS MALACCENSIS. 

 THE MALACCAN YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Picus malaccensis, Lath. 2nd. Oni. i. p. 241. Chloropicus miniatus, apud 

 Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 116, pi. Ixxvi. fig. 1-3. Picus miniatus, apud Sundev. 

 Consp. Av. Pic. p. 59 (part.). Venilia malaccensis, Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1803. 

 p. 211. Callolophus malaccensis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 50 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 

 1877, p. 288 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 140 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. Chry- 

 sophlegma malaccensis, Hume, S. F. iii. p. 324 (note). 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown and the uppermost feathers of the 

 occipital crest crimson ; the lower and longer feathers of the crest yellow ; 

 the whole of the sides of the head mixed fulvous-brown and crimson,, the 

 bases of the feathers being of the former and the tips of the latter colour ; 

 upper neck and back greenish barred with yellowish, the sides more or less 

 tinged with crimson ; rump bright yellow, indistinctly barred with green ; 

 upper tail-coverts brown, tipped with pale yellow; tail dark brown or 

 black ; wing-coverts, the basal portions of the outer webs of the primaries, 

 the whole of the outer webs of the secondaries and nearly the whole of the 

 tertiaries and scapulars crimson ; remainder of the wing dark brown ; the 

 primaries spotted on the outer webs, barred on the inner, with yellowish 

 white ; the secondaries barred on the inner webs j chin, throat, sides of the 

 neck and breast dull buff; remainder of the lower plumage buffish white, 

 closely barred with brown ; under wing-coverts whitish, barred with 

 brown. 



The female differs in not having any crimson on the sides of the face, 

 and in having the forehead, lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, chin and 

 throat tipped with white preceded by a black bar. 



Legs and feet pale dingy green ; claws bluish or greenish dusky horny ; 

 irides commonly red, in some specimens almost brown, in one pale crimson ; 

 eyelids pale plumbeous to dark grey ; upper mandible black ; lower man- 

 dible pale plumbeous to pale bluish white. (Davison.) 



Length 10'5 inches, tail 4, wing 5*3, tarsus '8, bill from gape 1*3. The 

 female is rather larger than the male. 



C. miniatus from Java is said to differ in having the whole of the crest 

 crimson and the greater portion of the back in both sexes red. Mr. Hume, 

 however, states that Tenasserim birds are nearer to C. miniatus than to 

 C. malaccensis in this respect. The only specimen which my men brought 

 back from Malewoon does not bear out Mr. Hume's statement, the back 

 being entirely green, merely tinged with red in the immediate vicinity of 

 the scapulars. Another specimen from the island of Salanga is similar. 

 In both specimens the lower and longer feather's of the crest are yellow. 

 I have not been able to examine Javan birds. 



