352 WOODPECKER. 



quills and tail blackish ; the upper tail coverts bright carmine red, 

 forming a large spot on that part; legs blackish. 

 Inhabits Luconia. 



9— STRICT WOODPECKER. 



Picus strictus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 176. — Horsfield. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill narrow, slender, tending 

 gradually to a point; superior angles parallel, with transverse, 

 curved slender lines; ridge narrow; the lower mandible yellowish; 

 the crown crested, crimson in the male, in the female orange ; the 

 plumage above orange green, beneath variegated white and black ; 

 tail black. 



Inhabits Java; called by the common name of Platuk. 



10— STREAKED-CROWNED WOODPECKER. 



Picus tristis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 177. — Horsfield. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill conic, a trifle bent ; the plumage 

 above banded irregularly with black and white; rump white; under 

 parts of the body black ; the crown and nape are tenderly streaked 

 black and white; tail, quills, and thigh feathers fasciated black 

 and white. 



Inhabits Java ; known by the name of Platuk-watu. 



