274 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 
Ficus miniatus (pt.), Wagl. Syst. Ay. Ficus, sp. 98 (1827); 
Vig. Mem. Raffl. p. 669 (1830); Sundev. Consp. Ay. Picin. 
p. 59 (1866); Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 168 (1876). 
Malacolophus (Br achy tophus) miniatus, Swains. Classif. B. 
ii. p. 308 (1837). 
Gecinus miniatus (pt.), Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; 
id. List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 75 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. 
p. 191. no. 8682 (1870). 
Chloropicos miniatus (pt.), Malh. N. Classif. Mem. Acad. 
Metz, 1848-49, p. 350. 
Venilia miniatus (pt.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 128 
(1850) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 664 
(1856-58). 
Br achy tophus miniatus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 31; Bp. 
(pt.) Consp. Yolncr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854). 
Venilia miniata (pt.), Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, 
p. 358. no. 830, pi. dcxxix. figs. 4184-85 (1854). 
Chloropicus miniatus (pt.), Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 116, 
pi. lxxvi. figs. 1, 2 (1862). 
Adult male. Upper and middle back washed with bright 
Indian red upon a ground of dusky olive, barred and spotted 
with pale yellow; scapulars and wing-coverts Indian red; 
bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish brown, red ex¬ 
ternally ; quills blackish brown, the primaries having their 
outer webs margined with red at the base, this colour ex¬ 
tending further up the web on each inner feather, the re¬ 
maining part of the outer webs obliquely spotted with buff, 
the basal half of the inner webs transversely spotted with 
buffy white; outer webs of the secondaries red, the inner 
webs transversely spotted with buffy whije on the basal half, 
the spots on the innermost feathers having a barred cha¬ 
racter ; shafts of primaries pale brown, those of the secon¬ 
daries blackish brown; lower back and rump washed with 
lemon-yellow on a ground of dusky olive, spotted and barred 
with white, the yellow being confined to the margin and tip 
of each feather ; upper tail-coverts blackish brown spotted 
with white, some of the uppermost having a yellowish margin 
and the spots bar-like; tail brownish black; shafts black; 
