T HE IBIS 
ELEVENTH SERIES. 
Vol. III. No. 1. JANUARY 1921. 
\ I.— On a recently described Woodpecker (Picus rubricollaris) 
from Siam. Bv E. C. Stuart Baker, M.B.O.U. 
(Plate I.) 
Among the numerous new species and subspecies of birds 
recently found by Messrs. Herbert, Gairdner, Williamson, 
and others in Siam, there are few more handsome or 
conspicuous than the subject of the frontispiece of this 
number of ‘ The Ibis/ obtained by Mr. E. G. Herbert's 
collectors. 
Descriptions of both male and female of this fine 
Woodpecker were given by me in the Bulletin of the 
B. O. C. vol. xli. p. 10 (October 1920), where it was 
named Picus rubricollaris , and are here reprinted. 
Adult male. Whole crown brilliant crimson-scarlet changing 
to pure scarlet on the nape, the feathers of the crown with 
black bases which show through in places; sides of tlie head 
ser. xi.—VOL. III. 
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