276 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 
of the feathers were red tipped with yellow. The yellow of 
the crest does not, however, assume the definite form repre¬ 
sented in Malherbe's plate, which is misleading. The same 
authors figure of the female has neither the back of C. 
miniatum nor of C. malaccense, and is so unsatisfactory that 
one cannot with certainty say from which species it was 
taken. 
C. miniatum is confined to the island of Java, whence 
the Leiden Museum contains numerous examples. In the 
British Museum there is a specimen of Mr. Wallace's from 
East Java, which in no way differs from examples procured 
in other parts of the island. This species is clearly separable 
from the allied one, C. malaccense, which is found in Southern 
Tenasserim, the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, 
and may be distinguished from the latter species by its red 
back and beautifully developed and longer red crest, the 
latter colour spreading on to the nuchal feathers and replacing 
the yellow. I think there can be no doubt that some of the 
specimens of C. miniatum in the Leiden Museum have been 
wrongly sexed; the birds with the spotted face are sometimes 
marked on the collectors' labels as males, and those with the 
face unspotted and washed with red are occasionally labelled 
as females. I have always considered that the reverse is the 
case, and this view is in accordance with that of Malherbe; 
and when we find it to be so in the allied species C. malaccense, 
according to such excellent collectors as Messrs. Davison, 
Darling, and Oates, I think there can be no reason to doubt 
that the sexual distinctions would correspond in C. mi¬ 
niatum. 
6. Chrysophlegma malaccense. 
Le Pic de Malacca, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 211 (1782). 
Malaccan Woodpecker, Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. iii (1787). 
Picus malaccensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 241 (1790); id. 
Hist. B. iii. p. 362 (1822) ; Drap. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. 
xiii. p. 500 (1828) | Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 192 (1845). 
Picus miniatus (non Forst.), Shaw & Nodd. Nat. Misc. xi. 
pi. ccccxiii. (1800). 
