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GOLDEN-TAILED 'WOODPECKER. 
Dendromus chrysurus, Swains. 
Above olive-grey, spotted and banded with whitish; beneath 
fulvous-white ; striped on the body and spotted on the 
throat with black ; male with the upper part of the head 
and maxillary stripe crimson ; female with the front and 
crown blackish, and unspotted ; shafts of the tail-feathers 
golden-yellow. 
It is exceeding difficult to discriminate species 
whose chief distinctions rest on the pattern of the 
spots upon their plumage. The one we shall now 
describe has a general resemblance to two or three 
others, such as the Picus notatus of Lichtenstein 
(Pic tigre, Le Vaill. vi. 250), and the Picus Nu- 
bicus of authors. It is, however, clearly distinct 
from either : the female has no white spots on the 
crown as in Le Yaillant’s Pic tigrc, and the Nuli- 
cus of Lichtenstein will he subsequently described. 
In structure this is. a perfectly typical example of 
the sub-genus Dendromus : the lateral ridge of the 
bill is nearer to the culmen than to the external 
margin ; and the two principal toes, if not equal, 
are very nearly so ; if there is any difference the 
hinder one is a trifle shorter. 
Both sexes of this species are now before us. 
The male has the top of the head from the front to 
