Genus CHRYSOCOLAPTES. 

 Bill very strong, lengthened, the tip wedge-shaped ; lateral ridge very prominent, and parallel 

 to the margin near the tip. Nostrils apart. Neck small. Wings much as in Picus. Tail 

 moderately long and cuneate, the four central feathers subequal. Feet very strong, the hind 

 toe considerably longer than the anterior ; claws stout, long, and much curved. 



CHETSOCOLAPTES STRICKLAND! 



(LAYARD'S WOODPECKER.) 

 (Peculiar to Ceylon.) 





Picus ceylonus, Jerd. {nee Forster) 111. Ind. Orn. pi. 47 (1847). 



Brachyptemus stricMandi, Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 449 ; Jerdon, B. of 



Ind. i. p. 298. 

 Indopicus carlotta, Mahl. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 379 ; id. Mon. Picida?, pi. 67 (1863). 

 Brachyptemus ceylonus, Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 278. 

 % Brachyptemus rubescens, Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 128 (1852). 

 Chrysocolaptes stricMandi, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. v. p. 160 (1862); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 



p. 297 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 427 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 15, et 1875, p. 283 ; 



id. Str. Feath. 1875, p. 200. 

 Bracltypternus erythronotus, Reich. Handb. Spec. Orn. pi. 629. fig. 4186 (1851). 

 Bed Woodpecker, Jerdon's Illustrations; Hill-Woodpecker, Europeans in Ceylon. 

 Kceralla, Sinhalese. 



<5 supra coccineus, pileo cristato : rectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus : ala spuria et tectricibus primariorum et 

 primariis nigris, his ad apicem pallidioribus et intus albo ovate triinaculatis : primariis interioribus secundariisque 

 coccineis, intus nigris albo trimaculatis : uropygio celatim minute albido maculato : supracaudalibus caudaque 

 nigris : loris et frontis basi brunneis : regione parotica, colli lateribus et collo postico nigris, hoc ovate albo maculato : 

 facie laterali guttureque albidis, fasciis tribus nigris notatis, una supragenali, altera mvstacali, et tertia mediana 

 gutturali: corpore reliquo subtus sordide rufesceuti-albo, plumis uigro margiuatis, pectore et jugulo quasi guttu- 

 latis, abdomine quasi striolato : margine alari bruuneo : tectricibus alarum reliquis nigrieantibus albo maculatis : 

 iriile flavicanti-alba ; rostro olivaceo ; pedibus olivaceis. 



5 capite nigro, albo punctato. 



.{'lull i, m!,' and ft male. Length 11-5 to ITS inches ; wing 5-8 to 0-1 ; tail 3-4 ; tarsus 1*0 to PI ; outer ant. toe 0-9, 

 claw (straight) 055; outer posterior toe 1 - 1, claw (straight) 0-55 ; bill to gape 1*9 to 2*1. 



Females, though quite as large as, and equal in wing to, males, appear to have shorter bills as a rule. The claws of 

 this species are very strong and deep. 



I ris yellowish white or very pale buff ; bill brownish or olivaceous at the base, changing at the centre into greenish 

 white, the tip assuming a dusky hue ; legs and feet plumbeous green or greenish slate. 



Head, nape, back, rump, wing-coverts, outer webs of secondaries, and tertials crimson, dusky on the interscapulars : 

 bases of the head-feathers brown, and those of the back and rump with concealed white spots ; region round the 

 eye, ear-coverts, and down the sides of the neck blackish brown, paling on the lores and at the base of the upper 

 inaudible ; a line of white spots up the hind neck, continued above the ear-coverts to the eyes ; primaries and inner 

 webs of secondaries and tertials black-brown, with a series of white inner-margined spots ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail black ; throat, cheeks, and a line above the gape to the nostril, centres of throat, chest, and upper breast-feathers, 



