368 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



feathers in the specimen described appear but half grown. A 

 female or young male is wholly green, more yellowish below, 

 except the rump, which is brighter blue than in the adult male, 

 and the tail is mingled green and indigo-blue ; the more vivid 

 green of the neck but obscurely indicated ; both the man- 

 dibles are dull coral, with white tips ; and the wing measures 

 f>\ inch ; the tail but 4^ inch. — Bhjih. 



The colouring in the sexes is alike, except that in the female 

 the green on the side of the head is less distinct, and the bill 

 is black instead of red. — Holdsworth. 



153 bis.— Loriculus indicus, Gm. 



Differs from L. vernalis in having the crown deep red, pass- 

 ing to a saffron hue on the nape, and in some specimens over 

 much of the back, while the forepart of the neck is tinged 

 more or less deeply with verditer. This appears to be wholly 

 confined to Ceylon. — Blyih. 



166 ter— Chrysocolaptes stricklandi, Layard* 



Length about 11 inches; of closed wing, 5*25; tail, 4 - 25 ; 

 bill, 1-75 ; tarsi, 1. 



General colour of back scarlet maroon, each feather being 

 maroon, edged with scarlet ; the filamentous feathers on the 

 lower portion of the back near the tail-coverts (which with 

 the tail are brown) are brilliant scarlet ; wing primaries 

 of a lighter brown than the tail-feathers ; the outer webs mar- 

 gined maroon, changing into scarlet ; inner webs of the 

 secondaries marked with four large circular white spots ; the 

 interior primaries have but three spots, the middle two spots, 

 the outside of all but one ; the feathers of the breast and 

 neck chiefly buff, with an albescent centre and dark-brown 

 edge, giving these portions a scaly appearance, which is lost 

 on the sides and belly, where it merely assumes a mottled 

 irregular form ; chin white, with five distinct very dark 

 brown lines down it ; head of female brown, with numerous 

 good-sized white ocelli (m the male this portion is brilliant 

 scarlet) ; the feathers over the nostrils light-brown ; a streak 

 of the same colour forms an eyebrow ; bill light corneous ; 

 legs bluish; irides red-brown. — Layard. 



