Picus hæmatribon Wagler, Syst. Av. Picus (1827), sp. 95 [female].
Chrysocolaptes hæmatribon Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890),
18, 454; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 228; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 65.
Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Möllendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead,
Worcester, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.).
Male.--Head, wings, and upper parts deep crimson; hind neck black
with large pale buff spots; tail dark seal-brown with black shafts;
under parts pale fulvous-buff; a black median line on upper throat
and two black lines on each side of throat; lower throat and breast
black, each feather with a large round buffy white spot; lower breast
and abdomen faintly barred with dusky brown. Bill black; legs dirty
greenish; nails brown. Length, 275; wing, 140; tail, 92; culmen from
base, 40; tarsus, 29.
Female.--Differs from the male in having top of head black, each
feather with a small, sharply defined, white spot. Wing, 142; tail,
88; culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 24.