Genus CHRYSOCOLAPTES. 
Bill very strong, lengthened, the tip wedge-shaped ; lateral ridge very prominent, and parallel 
to the margin near the tip. Nostrils apart. Neck small. Wings much as in Ficus. Tail 
moderately long and cuneate, the four central feathers subequal. Feet very strong, the hind 
toe considerably longer than the anterior ; claws stout, long, and much curved. 
CHRYSOCOLAPTES STRICKLAND! 
(LAYARXPS WOODPECKER.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
Ficus ceylonus , Jerd. ( nec Forster) 111. Ind. Orn. pi. 47 (1847). 
Brachypternus stricJclandi, Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 449 ; Jerdon, B. of 
Ind. i. p. 298. 
Indopicus carlotta, Mahl. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 379 ; id. Mon. Picidee, pi. 67 (1863). 
Brachypternus ceylonus , Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 278. 
I Brachypternus rubescens, Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 128 (1852). 
Chrysocolaptes stricJclandi , Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. v. p. 160 (1862); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 
p. 297 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 427 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 15, et 1875, p. 283 ; 
id. Str. Feath. 1875, p. 200. 
Brachypternus erythronotus, Reich. Handb. Spec. Orn. pi. 629. fig. 4186 (1851). 
Bed Woodpecker , Jerdon’s Illustrations; Hill-Woodpecker , Europeans in Ceylon. 
Koeralla, Sinhalese. 
S supra coccineus, pileo cristato : rectricibus alarum dorso eoncoloribus : ala spuria et tectricibus primariorum et 
px-imariis nigris, his ad apieem pallidioribus et intus albo ovate trimaculatis : primaries interioribus secundariisque 
eoceineis, intus nigris albo trimaculatis : uropygio celatim minute albido maeulato : supracaudalibus caudaque 
nigris : loris et frontis basi brunneis : regione parotiea, colli lateribus et collo postico nigris, lioe ovate albo maeulato : 
tacie laterali guttureque albidis, fasciis tribus nigris notatis, una supragenali, altera mystacali, et tertia mediana 
gutturali : corpore reliquo subtus sordide rufescenti-albo, plumis nigro marginatis, pectore et jugulo quasi guttu- 
latis, abdomine quasi striolato : margine alari brunneo : tectricibus alarum reliquis nigricantibus albo maculatis : 
iride flavicanti-alba ; rostro olivaceo ; pedibus olivaceis. 
2 capite nigro, albo punctato. 
Adult male and female. Length 11-5 to 11-8 inches ; wing 5-8 to 6-1 ; tail 3 - 4 ; tarsus l'O to l'l ; outer ant. toe 0-9, 
claw (straight) 055 ; outer posterior toe 1-1, claw (straight) 0-55 ; bill to gape 1-9 to 2T. 
Females, though quite as largo as, and equal in wing to, males, appear to have shorter bills as a rule. The claws of 
this species are very strong and deep. 
Iris yellowish white or very pale buff ; bill brownish or olivaceous at the base, changing at the centre into greenish 
white, the tip assuming a dusky hue ; legs and feet plumbeous green or greenish slate. 
Head, nape, back, rump, wing-coverts, outer webs of secondaries, and tertials crimson, dusky on the interscapulars : 
bases of the head-feathers brown, and those of the back and rump with concealed white spots ; region round the 
eye, ear-coverts, and down the sides of the neck blackish brown, paling on the lores and at the base of the upper 
mandible ; a line of white spots up the hind neck, continued above the ear-coverts to the eyes ; primaries and inner 
webs of secondaries and tertials black-brown, with a series of white inner-margined spots ; upper tail-coverts and 
tail black; throat, cheeks, and a line above the gape to the nostril, centres of throat, chest, and upper breast-feathers, 
