CAMPEPHILIN.E. 



longer ; hind-head generally with a full crest ; neck thin ; wings 

 and tail various. 



GENUS, Hemicercus, Swainson. 



Bill straight, considerably compressed, the lateral ridge slight 

 near the margin ; wings long, nearly reaching (when closed) to 

 the end of the tail; tail very short, broad; neck short, very 

 slender ; feet very large ; versatile toe always longer than the 

 anterior one. 



Hemicercus cordatus, Jerd. 



165. Hemicercws canente, Lesson. Jerdon's Birds of India, 



Vol. I, p. 280 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 



385. 



THE HEART-SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



<?. Length, 6 ; expanse, 12 ; wing, 372 ; tail, T25 ; bill at front, 

 0-88. 



?. Length, 575 ; expanse, 1075 ; wing, 3'6 ; tail, 1-36 ; bill at 

 front, 0-67. 



Bill bluish-black ; irides brownish-red ; legs dusky-green. 



Female, with the forehead and top of the head a narrow 

 line in the middle of the inter-scapular region, rump, shoulders, 

 lesser wing-coverts, and a stripe from the lower mandible 

 running below the ears of a light whitish-yellow ; the wing- 

 coverts and tertiaries with a black heart-shaped spot near the 

 tip of each feather ; face, cheeks, long occipital crest, nape, 

 scapulars, quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail, deep black ; terti- 

 aries greenish ; middle of back dull blackish-green ; beneath, 

 chin and throat, whitish-yellow ; from throat to vent dull black- 

 ish-green ; under tail-coverts black. 



The male differs from the female in having the forehead and 

 head black, with minute whitish spots. On the centre of the 

 back is a brush of dark sap-green bristly feathers, smeared with 

 a viscid secretion from a gland beneath. 



Jerdon (by a slip of the pen. probably) has described the 

 male as the female, and vied versa, but this has been rectified in 

 the text. 



The Heart-spotted Woodpecker occurs sparingly in the forests 

 west of Belgaum and on the Sahyadri Kange. It has not been 

 recorded from elsewhere within our limits. 



GENUS, Ohrysocolaptes, Slyth. 



Bill much as in typical picus, almost quite straight, strong ; 

 the lateral ridg-e medial at first, afterwards parallel to, and 

 nearer the margin ; tail short, square ; the four central feathers 

 equal ; feet strong ; hind-toe longer than the anterior- toe. 



Chrysocolaptes delesserti, Malh. 



. Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p.. 885. 



