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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus OALLOLOPHUS, Salvad. 
441. CALLOLOPHUS MENTALIS. 
THE SPOTTED-THROATED YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 
■ Picus mentalis, Temm. PL Col. 384; Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic.^. 58. Chloropicus 
mentalis, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 112, pi. Ixxv. fig. 1, 5 & 6. Callolophus 
mentalis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 49 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 138 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 87. Chrysophlegma mentalis, Bl. B. Burm. p. 76. 
Description. — Male. Forehead^ crown^ nape, ear-coverts and feathers 
under the eye dull green or greenish brown ; occipital crest bright yellow ; 
back^ rump^ scapulars, upper tail-coverts and tertiaries green ; the edge of 
the wing also green ; primaries dark brown^ with rufous spots or bars on 
both webs, the basal portions of the outer webs more or less crimson ; 
secondaries with the outer webs crimson, the inner dark brown barred 
with rufous ; upper wing-coverts crimson ; tail black ; chin and cheeks 
brown, spotted with dull white ; throat black, streaked with white ; sides 
of the nape and of the neck and the breast chestnut ; remainder of lower 
plumage dull green, tinged with yellow ; under wing-coverts greenish, 
barred with fulvous. 
The female differs in having the chin and cheeks chestnut like the 
breast, not brown spotted with white. 
Legs and feet green ; claws plumbeous ; upper mandible dull black ; 
lower mandible and edges of upper mandible near nostril pale plumbeous ; 
orbital skin dark green, at times pale green; irides deep red. {Davison.) 
Length 11 inches, tail 4, wing 5*2, tarsus "9, bill from gape 1*5. The 
female is of nearly the same size. 
The Spotted-throated Yellow-naped Woodpecker, according to Mr. 
DavisoUj is found in the extreme south of Tenasserim about Bankasoon, 
where it appears to be rare ; but Mr. Blyth received it from Mergui, much 
further north. 
It occurs in the Malay peninsula and in the islands of Sumatra, J ava 
and Borneo. It is probably an inhabitant of dense forests, but Mr. 
Davison makes no remark about its habits. 
