PICIDJG. 



Chrysocolaptes sultanens, Blyth, Cat. p. 55 ; id. Ibis, 1866, p. 355 ; 



Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 653 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 281 ; id. Ibis, 1872, 



p. 8 ; Hume fy Oates, S. F. iii, p. 64 ; Armstrong, 8. F. iv, p. 310 ; 



Hume % Inglis, S. F. v, p. 26 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 133 ; 



Hume, Cat.no. 166; Anderson, Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 584; 



Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 52 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 61. 

 Indopicus sultaneus (Hodgs.} and I. delesserti, Malh. Mem. Acad. 



Metz, 1848-49, p. 343. 

 Chrysocolaptes delesserti, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 355 ; Hume, S. F. 



iii, p. 64 ; Bourdillon, S. F. iv, p. 389 ; Fairbank, S. F. v, 



p. 396 ; Dav. 8f Wend. S. F. vii, p. 78 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 205 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 166 bis ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 114. 

 Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus, Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 8 ; Blyth fy 



Wald. Birds Burm. p. 75; Fairbank, S. F. iv, pp. 255, 265; 



Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 448 ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 



2nd ed. ii, p. 313. 

 Chrysocolaptes strictus, apud Hume, S. F. viii, p. 154 ; Butler, S. F. 



ix, pis. 238, 385 ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 354 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 53. 



The Golden-backed Woodpecker, Jerdon ; Tashi-on-bau, Lepcha. 



Fig. 17. Head of C. gutticristatus, J. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and border of crown to above eye 

 brown, crown and occiput covered with long crimson feathers and 

 bordered with black ; hind neck in the middle white, the feathers 

 often bordered with black and the white more or less reduced to 

 spots ; back, scapulars, and whole outer surface of wings, except 

 primary-coverts and outer webs of primaries, golden olive, the 

 feathers with bright golden or sometimes scarlet edges ; quills and 

 prima.ry-coverts brown, inner webs with round white spots, tips 

 of primaries often pale ; rump crimson ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail black. Sides of head and neck and lower parts as in C.festivus, 

 except that there is more black, especially on the fore neck and 

 breast, which are generally black with white spots. 



Females have the crown and occiput black with round white 

 spots. In young males the forehead is coloured as in females. 



Bill bluish brown ; iris pinkish yellow; eyelids dark slaty brown; 

 legs greenish blue (Oates). 



