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63. ALCEDO ATTHIS BENGALENSIS Gmelin 



Alcedo iengalensis Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 450, 1788 (Bengal). 

 One male, Yimgning Mountains, 12,000-13,000 feet, November- 

 December; two males and one imsexed, Weihsi, 8,000-9,000 feet,. 

 Yunnan, September. 



Family PICIDAE, Woodpeckers 



64. THRIPONAX FORRESTI (Rothschild) 



Dryocopns forresti Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 43, p. 9, 1922 (Mekong 

 "Valley, Yunnan). 



One male and one female, Ndamucho, 11,000 feet, Yunnan, October, 

 The specimen formerly recorded as an adult male ^° was incor- 

 rectly sexed. It is an adult female. The above male resembles the 

 same sex of ThHponax nchardsi very closely. The only male speci- 

 men of the latter available for comparison has a broad space above^ 

 the eye black, while in forresti the red of the crown reaches th& 

 eyelid posteriorly. This feature is not mentioned in the original 

 description, and it may be only individual. 



The female of T. forresti has the occiput red, while in the same 

 sex of T. richa/rdsi the whole crest is black without any red. Other- 

 wise the two species are much alike superficially. 



65. PICOmES FUNEBRIS Verreaux 



Picoides fune'bris Verreaux, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. 6, Bull., p. 33, 1870 

 (mountains of Chinese Tibet). 



Four males and five females, southwest Szechwan (Mount Mitzuga, 

 13,500 feet, Muli, June; back of Mount Mitzuga, 13,000 feet, June; 

 Mount Konka, 14,000 feet, June; forests of Bonti, east of Waerhdje, 

 13,000 feet, July; Noon forests, 11,000 feet, east of Muli, August; 

 Dshizhi, 13,500 feet, April; Mount Gibboh, 13,000-14,000 feet, April)! 



Only five of the above specimens are old adult birds. The rest 

 are birds of the year in various stages of plumage, but none in the 

 nestling stage. The youngest plumage of the male represented 

 resembles the adult and has the yellow crown, but the breast and 

 belly are without any white bars; the outer tail feathers have a 

 few linear, irregular, white markings not quite reaching the margin 

 distally; the white markings above are sparse; and the bill is 

 shorter. As the bird becomes older, whitish bars appear below, the 

 white markings increase above, and the white markings on the outer 

 tail feathers become white ovoid spots mostly on the outer web, 

 but one on the inner web, and a double spot subterminally, sepa- 



" Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, p. 17, 1926. 



