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tail black, the outer feathers barred and tipped with buff ; a slight 

 trace of a buff line down the side of the neck ; abdomen grey, with 

 buffy-white edges to the feathers. 



Female. Forehead and crown olive-grey like the rest of the head. 



In the young of both sexes the crown and long nuchal crest are 

 ruddy buff, the feathers tipped with olive-grey ; in males the long 

 nuchal feathers become partly crimson, as these become olive-grey 

 the crown becomes crimson, the passage being gradual. The whole 

 mantle is buff with black spots, the rump-feathers are edged with 

 grey, and those of the lower parts with buff in very young birds. 



Bill plumbeous grey ; irides red-brown ; legs and feet plumbeous, 

 tinged greenish (Davison). 



Length 5'5; tail 1*2 ; wing 3*4 ; tarsus '6 ; bill from gape 1. 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, 

 ranging north into the extreme south of Tenasserim, a single 

 specimen having been obtained by Mr. Davison at Bankasiin. 



995. Hemicercus canente. The Heart-spotted Woodpecker. 



Picus canente, Less. Cent. Zool p. 215, pi. 73 (1830). 



Hemicercus canente, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 282 ; id. Cat. p. 54; 



Horsf. # M. Cat. ii, p. 650 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 280 ; Hume, 8. F. 



iii, p. 61 ; id. Cat. no. 165 bis ; id. S. F. xi, p. 61 ; Blyth $ Wald. 



Birds Burm. p. 74 ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 344 ; Hume $ Inglis, S. f. 



v, p. 25 ; Butler, ibid. p. 503 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 127, 500 ; 



Binyham, S. F. ix, p. 161 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 30 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 



1884, p. 252 ; id. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 486 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Gen. (2) v, p. 564 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 314. 

 Hemicercus cordatus, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xi, p. 211 (1840) ; 



id. III. Ind. Orn. pi. xl ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 354 ; Hume $ Bourd. 



S. F. iv, p. 389 ; Hume, Cat. no. 165 ; Sutler, S. F. ix, p. 385 ; 



Damson, S. F. x, p. 354 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1884, p. 257 ; id. Cat. B. M. 



xviii, p. 488 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 114. 



Coloration. Male. Top and sides of head with long occipital 

 crest, nape and sides of neck, back, scapulars, upper and lower 

 tail-coverts, and tail black, the forehead and anterior portion of 

 crown with minute white spots ; a band round the hind neck, 

 connected with a median patch on the interscapulary tract and 

 running forward -along the sides of the neck to the chin, including 

 the throat and malar region, buff, as are also all the wing-coverts 

 along the forearm, the wing-lining, and the rump ; quills black, 

 margined with buff towards the base of the inner webs ; tertiaries 

 and a few of the larger and median coverts buff, each with a heart- 

 shaped black spot near the end ; fore neck, breast, and abdomen 

 dusky olive, darker behind, flanks black. 



In the female and in the young of both sexes the forehead and 

 crown are buff. 



Bill black ; irides dark reddish brown ; legs and feet very dark 

 green, sometimes appearing almost black (Davison). 



In males, length 6'4 ; tail 1-4; wing 3-9 ; tarsus '7; bill from 

 gape 1*1. Females are rather smaller : wing 3*7 ; bill from 

 gape -9. 



