Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 271 
Mr. Davison gives the soft parts in the species as follows : 
—“ 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.” 
Immature male. Has the dusky malar stripe varied with 
rufous and spotted with dull white, the white on the feathers 
not presenting the barred appearance which distinguishes 
the fully adult male bird. Not having seen a very young 
male, I cannot say if it has the malar stripe rufous, as in the 
female, which the admixture of the rufous colour on the 
cheeks of the immature bird would suggest. 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the 
cheeks and chin rufous. Total length 10’5 inches, culmen 
1*4, wing 5’3, tail 3’7, tarsus 0’95. 
Young female (July). Maybe distinguished from the adult 
female by having the striations on the white chin and throat 
of a pale brownish dusky, and not deep black ; the top of the 
head and the occiput dusky green; the ear-coverts pale 
brown, with the slightest tinge of green ; the cheeks, sides of 
the neck, and the chest paler rufous, and the underparts of 
a duller green. 
The present bird has long been common in collections, but 
no exact comparison of the Javan and Malaccan birds 
appears to have been made. Eeichenbach perceived the 
differences ; but by the names he applied to the two species 
he rather added to than cleared up the confusion which 
existed. I have come to the conclusion that the name 
mentale belongs only to the Javan form, and that the 
Malaccan bird must be called C. squamicolle (Lesson). 
The latter author, in his 'Traite d’Ornithologie/ p. 229, 
bestowed the name of Picus squamicollis upon a bird from 
an unknown locality; and it appears reasonable to suppose 
that his description was taken from a specimen in the Paris 
Museum (the only one in the collection at that date, and 
from an unknown locality). This specimen was received 
in exchange from Temminck in 1823; but it was apparently 
not the Javan species, the true C. mentale , but probably 
