BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 147 



The males have the anterior portion of the lores, and a nar- 

 row ill-defined frontal band, pale orauge rusty ; the rest of the fore- 

 head, crown, occiput and full occipital crest, bright scarlet ; the pos- 

 terior portion of the lores, and a stripe under the eye, including 

 the basal portion of the ear-coyerts, and a broad stripe down the 

 sides of the neck, and a long stripe from behind the eye, border- 

 ing the red of the occiput, and almost meeting under the crest, 

 white ; a band running between these two stripes from behind 

 the eye, across the ear-coverts, bordering the white stripe last 

 referred to, and meeting on, and occupying the nape, black ; as is 

 also another stripe on either side, beginning at the gape and run- 

 ning down, bordering the white neck stripe first referred to, The 

 whole space between these black gape stripes, chin, throat and. fea- 

 thers at the base of the lower mandible, pale buffy orange, most 

 orange on the last-named parts ; entire back and rump, scapulars, 

 coverts, (except the primary greater coverts) outer webs of second- 

 aries, and visible portions of both webs of tertiaries, golden olive ; 

 all the feathers of the back, rump, and lesser and median coverts 

 marginally fringed with pure golden ; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 uniform black, the former sometimes a little suffused towards 

 their tips with the color of the back ; breast, abdomen, vent, 

 and lower tail-coverts dull dark brown ; the extreme upper part 

 of the breast and the sides of the same, more or less suffused 

 with a golden olive tinge, and the central portion with less of 

 this but with an obscure chocolate tinge ; flanks greener, irre- 

 gularly barred or spotted with dull white ; the size and extent 

 of this spotting varies greatly in different specimens, in some 

 it extends to all the lower tail-coverts, and occupies all the sides 

 of the abdomen, and even the lower central part of the abdo- 

 men ; in others it is almost obsolete every where. Note that in 

 many males the golden fringing of the feathers of the back is 

 so broad as to become the dominant color, and that again in 

 many males some or all the feathers of the rump have more 

 or less of a crimson or orange crimson tinge towards their tips. 



The primaries and their greater coverts and the inner webs of 

 the secondaries are black or blackish brown ; the primaries 

 paling somewhat on their terminal portions, and the second to 

 the seventh more or less tipped with pale fawny brown ; the 

 earlier primaries generally exhibit a few line-like spots of 

 the same color as the tippings above referred to on the margins 

 of their outer webs, and all the quills exhibit larger or smaller 

 white spots on the middle of their inner webs, not quite extend- 

 ing either to margins or shafts. This is said to be the only 

 Woodpecker in which these central spots are exhibited. 



I should notice that in this species also the color of the 

 lower parts is very variable, some specimens having a strong 

 olivaceous tinge on the whole of these. 



