272 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 
came from Borneo or Sumatra. No specimen of the true 
C. mentale was acquired by the Paris Museum until 1831, 
after the publication of Lesson’s f Traite.’ Dr. Pucheran 
(Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 162) regarded as the type 
of Picus squamicollis the specimen in the Paris Museum 
received from Temminck in 1823, and in this I agree with 
Dr. Pucheran; but I think he erred in considering the bird 
to be nothing more than the female of C . mentale (Temm.), 
which it certainly is not. 
The adoption of Lesson’s name for the present species 
will probably be unlooked for by many ornithologists; 
but I consider that my reasons for accepting the title are 
valid, and I shall therefore give them as briefly as possible, 
and endeavour to reinstate a species which has not been 
recognized since the date of its discovery by any author 
except Reichenbach. Temminck described the Javan bird as 
Picus mentalis , and his MS. name of gularis had also refe¬ 
rence to the same species. This synonym was adopted by 
Wagler for the Javan bird; and the latter author’s descrip¬ 
tion, although indefinite in some respects, bears evidence of 
having been taken from the true C. mentale; therefore 
Wagler’s title is a mere synonym. In 1831 Lesson, in his 
( Traite,’ described a bird of this genus from an unknown 
locality, to which he gave the name of Picus squamicollis . 
It is the Malaccan bird, and, as I have already stated, I take 
it to be the type of the present species. Reichenbach, in his 
f Handbuch (Scans. Picinse,’ p. 358), clearly points out the 
differences between the true C. mentale from Java and the 
present species, but unfortunately names the bird which 
has the feathers of the throat white w.ith a black central 
stripe (i. e. the Malaccan species) Venilia mentalis , and the 
one having these feathers black with white spots at their 
extremities (i. e. the Javan species) Venilia gularis. If 
Lesson’s title were to be rejected for the present species, 
that of Reichenbach, although he was fully aware of the 
value of the species, could not stand, as Temminck had 
already applied the same name to the Javan bird. 
I am greatly indebted to Dr. Oustalet for having sent me 
