290 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



whitish, surmounted by black, over which, in the male, is a crimson 

 superciliary streak, nearW meeting its opposite on the forehead, 

 and continued backwards to the occiput, the crimson being con- 

 fined to the occiput in the female ; the male has also a mixture of 

 crimson on his raoustachial plumage ; rest of the upper plumage 

 bright green ; the primaries are bright ruddy, externally margined 

 with green, dusky with white spots on their inner webs ; tail black- 

 ish ; the central feathers margined with ruddy-green ; beneath, the 

 throat is whitish, with dusky tips to the feathers, increasing on the 

 fore-neck ; breast and upper part of belly, brownish-green ; the rest 

 of the lower parts dingy-whitish, with dusky-green cross-bars ; 

 wings beneath dusky, barred with greenish-white. 



Bill dark slaty above and at the tip, pale yellow on the sides and 

 beneath; orbitar skin slaty; irides red-brown; legs slaty-green. 



Length 9^ inches ; wing 5^ ; tail 4^ ; bill at front 1 to ly'^ ; 

 foot 21. 



The Lesser Yellow-naped Woodpecker is common in the South- 

 east Himalayas, extending into Assam; being rare in Lower 

 Bengal, and found as far as Cuttack, so that it probably may occur 

 in the JNIiduapore jungles. 



175. Chrysophlegma chlorophanes, Vieill. 



Picus, apud Vieillot — Blyth, Cat. 267 — Pic. mentalis, apud 

 Jerdon, Cat. 211 — P. chlorigaster, Jerdon, 2nd Suppl., Cat. 

 211— Chi. xanthoderus, Malh.* 



The Southern Yellow-naped Woodpecker. 



Descr. — Male, with the whole head and cheek-stripe red; a small 

 occipital crest of the same colour, shortly terminated by bright- 

 yellow ; plumage above bright green ; ear-feathers, and beneath, 

 dull sap or brownish green ; the feathers of the lower abdomen 

 banded and spotted with white ; wings greenish, with an orange 

 tinge, and the outer web of most of the quill-feathers deep orange- 

 red ; the inner webs dusky, with white spots ; tail unspotted black. 



* This is given as a synonym of the last by Horsfield; but Malherbe's specimens 

 were from Madras, and be distinctly states it to be the species described by 

 me, No. 211 of my Catalogue. 



