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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
439. CHRYSOPHLEGMA PUNICEUS. 
HORSFIELD^S YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 
Picus puniceus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 176; Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. 
p. 58. Chloropicus puniceus, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii, p. 110, pi. Ixxiv. fig. 5-7. 
Callolophus puniceus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 49 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. 
p. 139 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown, nape, basal portion of the crest 
and a broad patch on either side of the base of the lower mandible crimson ; 
remainder of the crest yellow; back, scapulars, rump and upper tail- 
coverts bright green, the feathers more or less margined with yellow ; 
tail black; wing-coverts crimson; primaries black, the earlier ones 
crimson at the base, the amount increasing till, on the last, almost the 
entire web is crimson; secondaries black on the inner web, crimson on 
the outer ; tertiaries brown, then pale crimson and broadly tipped with 
bright green ; all the quills spotted with white on the inner webs ; sides 
of the head and the whole lower plumage brownish green, paler on the 
chin and throat ; the sides of the body spotted or barred with whitish ; 
under wing-coverts brown spotted with white. 
The female differs in wanting the crimson patches at the base of the 
lower mandible. 
Legs and feet pale green, sometimes dingy, sometimes slightly yellowish ; 
claws pale greenish horny ; eyelids dull black ; orbital skin lavender-blue, 
bright plumbeous blue, pale blue, sometimes glossed with green close to 
the eye ; irides crimson ; lower mandible and base of upper mandible 
chrome- to greenish yellow ; rest of upper mandible black ; gape lavender. 
(Davison.) 
Length 10'5 inches, tail 4, wing 5*1, tarsus '95, bill from gape 1*3. 
The female is considerably larger. 
Horsfield^s Yellow-haped Woodpecker occurs in the southern portion of 
Tenasserim, where Mr. Davison states that it is not rare. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in the islands of 
Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 
This Woodpecker inhabits the evergreen forests, occasionally coming 
into clearings, and it appears to have a remarkable note, quite diflferent 
to those of the other Woodpeckers. 
