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extremely clear bright yellow ; sides and front of the neck 

 chestnut ; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, the smallest 

 coverts along the ulna, breast, abdomen, vent, flanks, and lower 

 tail-coverts, green, brightest on the middle of the back and 

 scapulars, duller and duskier towards the vent ; the whole of 

 the rest of the coverts, the outer webs of the secondaries, and 

 more or less of the basal portion of the tertiaries (the terminal 

 portions being green) deep crimson ; winglet and tips and 

 margins of some of the earlier primary greater coverts green ; 

 primaries dull black, with reddish buff spots on the outer webs, 

 and similar but much larger bar-like spots on the inner webs ; 

 the outer webs of the earlier primaries are suffused with crimson 

 above the emavgination, the later ones nearly to the tips ; the 

 inner webs of the secondaries barred like those of the primaries. 

 Tail uniform black ; wing-lining dark green, closely barred with 

 greenish to fulvous white. 



The female has the point of the chin, audapatch on either 

 side of the base of the lower mandible of the same color as the 

 sides and front of the neck. In other respects her plumage 

 does not differ from that of the male. 



175 ter.— Callolophus puniceus, Borsf. (12). 



Laynali ; Bankasoon. 



Confined to the southern district of the province, and there not 

 rare. 



[This bird has some rather anomalous habits for a Woodpeck- 

 er, and it has besides a very peculiar note, not in the least resem- 

 bling any of the varied notes of other Woodpeckers. It in- 

 habits the evergreen forests, occasionally coming into tounyahs 

 or clearings. It has a habit of working its way to the very 

 top of some high dry tree, and remaining there for half an 

 hour or more sometimes, uttering, at short intervals, its pecu- 

 liar note. In the dusk of the evening, when other Woodpeckers 

 cease to be heard, it gets very noisy, and then may be heard 

 calling in many directions, shewing that it is not very uncom- 

 mon ; it is however more often heard than seen. 



It occurs, so far as I am aware, only in the south of the pro- 

 vince. I found it most common about Laynah. 



It almost always, I may remark, goes about singly, and I 

 have never seen it descend to, or feed upon, the ground, as 

 Gecinus and Chrysophlegma so constantly do. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 9'25 to 10*75 ; expanse, 15 to 16-75 ; tail, 

 3'5 to 4-25 ; wing, 475 to 5-25 ; tarsus, 0"85 to 0'95 ; bill from 

 gape, 1*15 to 1*4 ; weight, 2*75 to 3"25 ozs. 



