44 PICIDiE, 



in front of the eye and a short streak behind it black ; a broad 

 yellowish-white superciliary stripe, and another from the white 

 lores passing under the ear-coverts ; sides of the face smoky green, 

 varied with greenish white ; malar stripe streaked black and white ; 

 sides of the neck and hind neck green ; chin, throat, fore neck, and 

 chest pale smoky green ; underparts, including under tail-coverts, 

 yellowish white, the feathers with a broad intermargiual line and 

 occasional shaft-streak of black, and having a scaly appearance ; 

 under wing-coverts yellowish white, with V-shaped markings of 

 black ; axiUaries white, barred with black : " irides, a circle of 

 dark pinkish red round the black pupil, surrounded by a second ring 

 of light pink ; upper mandible horn-coloured at the base, the tip 

 and the whole of the lower mandible being of a brightish yellow " 

 (H. C. Beavan). Total length l;3-5 inches, oulmen 1'85, wing 6"25, 

 tail 4-65, tarsus 1*1 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-8, outer 

 posterior 0-72, inner anterior 0'63, inner posterior 0'45. 



Younr/ male. Has the upper parts and wing-coverts dusky, the 

 margins only of the feathers being green, and on the rump tinged 

 with yellow ; the greater wing-coverts and outer webs of the 

 secondaries crossed with greenish-white markings ; the quills tipped 

 with white ; the top of the head black, the base of the forehead 

 spotted with grey, the other feathers tipped with red or orange-red ; 

 chin and throat imiform smoky white ; sides of the neck and fore 

 neck smoky grey, the feathers having blackish centres or V-shaped 

 spots ; the chest like the remaining underparts, but less yellow than 

 in the adult, and the black markings not so clearly defined. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the head, the whole of the top of the head and nape being black, 

 the coronal feathers marghied with smoky grey and having a streaked 

 appearance. Total length 13'5 inches, culmen 1-9, wing 6-35, tail 

 4"5, tarsus 1"3. 



Ilcch. Northern range, Gilgit ; into Cashmere and Afghanistan, 

 and through the Himalayas to Kumaou and Nepal. 



a. 5ad.sk. Aighanhtan {Gnfifh). India Museum. 



h, c. cJ 2 ad. sk. Cashmere. E. M. Langworthy, 



Esq. [P.]. 



(1, e. S ad. sk. Cashmere (Dr. Bcllew). India Museum. 



/. 2 ad. sk. GJilgit, March 4, 1879 (-/. Bid- Hume Coll. 



dulph). 



a. 5 ad. sk. Dhurmsala, Cashmere, April Hume Coll. 



1870. 



h, i. S ad. et S Murree. Colonel Way [P.]. 



juv. sk. 



k, I. (S ad. ; m. 2 N.W. Himalayas. StackhousePinwill, 



juv. sk. Esq. [P.]. 



w, 0. d 2 ad. sk. Kotekhaie, Feb. 20, 1871. Hume Coll. 



/>, y. cJ 2 ^d. ; r. Kotegurh, June. Hume Coll. 



J juv. sk. 



s-y. (S ad. etjuv. ; Simla, April, July, Sept. (i?. C. Tweeddale Coll. 



z. 2 ad. sk. Beavan). 



a', V. S ad. et Simla, July -10, 1868 {A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 



juv..sk. 



