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This species has been found in Thailand only by de Schauensee's 

 collectors, who took a single male at 6,000 feet on Doi Pha Horn Pok, 

 sometime in February 1938. 



I have no material of this form at hand. An adult male of the 

 closely related D. c. pemyii has the forecrown black, the rest of the 

 crown and the nape crimson; the back, scapulars, rump, upper tail 

 coverts, and central rectrices unmarked black ; the outer rectrices black, 

 barred with fulvous-white ; the wings black, barred and spotted with 

 white on the apical two-thirds, the coverts of the innermost secondaries 

 almost wholly white; the ear coverts and sides of the neck fulvous- 

 white ; the throat and sides of the breast black ; the center of the breast 

 deep crimson ; the remaining underparts deep fulvous, heavily streaked 

 with black; the under tail coverts buff, broadly edged with crimson. 

 The adult female differs chiefly in lacking crimson on the head. 



DRYOBATES ATRATUS (Blyth) 



Striped-breasted Pied Woodpecker 



P[icus~\ atratus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, 1849, pp. 803-804 

 ("Tenasserim provinces"). 



Dryobates atratus, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 

 567 (Doi Suthep) ; 1934, p. 250 (Doi Chiang Dao, Doi Suthep).— Deignan, 

 Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 157 (Doi Suthep). — Chasen and 

 Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1932, p. 236 (Doi Suthep.) — 

 Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 96 (Doi Suthep).— 

 Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 223 (Khun Tan, Doi Suthep, Doi 

 Langka, Doi Hua Mot). 



The striped-breasted woodpecker is common on all the northern 

 mountains that exceed 4,000 feet in elevation (including Phu Kha), 

 ranging from that altitude to at least 5,500 feet. On Doi Khun Tan, 

 where it was not found by Eisenhofer and Gyldenstolpe, Smith took 

 numerous examples between 3,000 and 4,000 feet (the summit) and 

 one as low as 2,000 feet. 



On Doi Ang Ka this bird occurred in solitary small trees standing 

 on lalang-covered hillsides; elsewhere I found it also in the open 

 forests of oak or pine and among the stunted trees that clothe the 

 mountain ridges. Its call is the shrill, descending whinny character- 

 istic of the small dryobatines. 



A specimen taken on January 11 had the gonads enlarged. Juve- 

 niles have been collected between February IT (just out of the nest) 

 and September 4 (a female with only one red feather still in the 

 crown). 



De Schauensee records that a male had the irides chestnut; the 

 maxilla dark gray ; the mandible light pearl gray ; the feet, toes, and 

 claws gray. Females taken by me had the irides brown ; the orbital 

 skin slaty ; the bill horny olive, darker on the culmen and paler below, 



