THE SMALL YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 45 
440. CHRYSOPHLEaMA CHLOROLOPHUS. 
THE SMALL YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 
Picus chlorolophus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 78 ; Bonn, et Vieill. 
Tahl. Enc. et Meth. p. 1309; Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 58. Chloropicus 
chlorolophus, Malh. Mon. Fic. ii. p. 108, pi. Ixxiv. fig. 1-3. Chrysophlegma 
chlorolophus, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 289 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 71 ; Wald. in Bl. B, 
Burm. p. 76 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F, vi. p. 138 ; Hume, S. F, viii. p. 87 ; Scullyy 
S. F. viii. p. 249. 
Description. — Male, Forehead, a broad stripe on either side of the crown 
over the eyes and reaching to the nape, and a large patch on either side of 
the base of the lower mandible crimson ; crown and nape green ; a long 
occipital crest yellow ; sides of the head and neck, chin, throat and the 
whole breast brownish green ; a whitish line from the gape under the ear- 
coverts ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, upper wing-coverts and 
tertiaries bright green, the primary- coverts tinged with aureous ; tail 
black ; primaries black, the outer webs red at the base, this colour 
increasing in extent til] on the last primary it occupies the whole web ; 
secondaries black on the inner webs, red on the outer and margined with 
green; both primaries and secondaries barred with white on the inner 
webs ; abdomen, sides of the body, vent, under tail-coverts and under 
wing-coverts dull white barred with brownish green. 
The female differs in wanting the crimson on the head of the male 
except a short streak on either side of the nape. 
The feathers of the chin and throat are white at the base, and these 
white bases are very plainly shown in some specimens. 
Iris bright red; eyelids lavender; upper mandible and anterior half of 
the lower horny black ; remainder of the lower mandible lemon-yellow ; 
legs and feet dull greenish ; claws plumbeous. 
Length 10-5 inches, tail 4, wing 5*4, tarsus '85, bill from gape 1*2. The 
female is of the same size as the male or rather larger. 
The Small Yellow-naped Woodpecker is stated by Mr. Blyth to occur 
in Arrakan. I found it in Pegu only between Thayetmyo and Tonghoo, 
and it appears to avoid the damper southern portion of the Division. 
Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo and on the Karennee hills 
at 3000 feet elevation. In Tenasserim it was observed by Mr. Davison in 
all parts of the Division down to about Amherst ; and Capt. Bingham 
states that it is common in the Thoungyeen valley. 
It is found in Cachar and the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, and it 
extends along the Himalayas from Assam to Nipal. It ranges south to 
about Orissa. 
This Woodpecker is found alike in thick forests and in spare tree-jungle. 
It occasionally descends to the ground. 
