220 



6, Dendrocoptis himalayensis. 



Piciis himaLiyensls, Jard. i§- S(lhi/,Ill. Orn. iii. pi. cxvi. c? (c. 18^5) ; 



BIyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. JOB; Bj), Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 130 



(1850) ; id. Consp. Valuer. Zyc/od. p. 8, no. 59 (1854) ; Malh. 



Picidm, i. p. 67, pi. xix. tigs. 3(5' ad. & S )uv., 4 $ ad. (1801) ; 



Sundev. Vo7isp. Av. Ficin. p. 22 (1860) ; Pe'k. Ibis, 1868, p. :319 ; 



Gray, List Ficid. Brit. Mus. p. 33 (1868) ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. 



p. 181, no. 8545 (1870); Wardl.-Rams. Ibis, 1880, p. 50; Bidd. 



Sir. F. 1880, p. 313; Scully, op. cit. 1881, x. p. 101; Bidd. Ibis, 



1881, p. 48 ; Scully, t. c. p. 429 ; Marshall, op. cit. 1884, p. 410. 

 Dendrocopus liimalayauus, Viyne, F. Z. S. 1841, p. 6. 

 Piciis hiiualavanus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 435 (1845) ; Blyth, J. A. S. 



B. 1847, p". 466; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 02 (1849) ; Horsf. 



^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 670 (1856-58) ; Leith- 



Adams, F. Z. S. 1858, p. 475, 1859, p. 173; Irby, Ibis, 1861, 



p. 229; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 269(1862); Cock ^ Marshall, Str. 



F. 1863, p. 350 ; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 47; Beavan, t. c. p. 412 ; 



Jerd. oj}. cit. 1872, p. 6 ; Hume Sf Menders. Lahore to Yark. p. 179 



(1873) ; Brooks, S/r. F. 1875, p. 232 ; Wardl.-Rams. Ibis, 1879, 



p. 447. 

 Pieus himalaiensis, Reichenb. Scans. Ficince, p, 366, no. 845, 



pi. dcxxxiii. figs. 4215-16,5 c? (1854). 

 Dendrocopus himalayensis, Cub. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. i\^ p. 36 



(1863). 

 Dryobates himalayanus, Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 201. 



Adult male. Eesembles D. major, but differs in having the 

 scapulars black ; the top of the head and the occiput crimson, and 

 the lower breast, abdomen, flanks, and thighs strongly fulvescent, 

 the red being confined to the vent and under tail-coverts : " legs 

 and i'eet plumbeous brown ; bill brown, pale at base of lower man- 

 dible ; irides red-brown" {A. 0. Ihime). Total length 9-9 inches, 

 culmen 1'35, wing 5'3, tail 3"35, tarsus 0'95 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0-55, outer posterior 0-65, inner anterior 0"5, inner 

 posterior 0'33. 



Yuuiiff male. Is very like the adult of the same sex, hut has the 

 red on the top of the head more restricted, and not spreading on to 

 the occiput ; the primaries are tipped with white ; there is much 

 more white on the lateral tail-feathers, the outer webs being almost 

 without spot or bar : the under surface of the body is duller and 

 very slightly tinged wdth yellow, and the feathers have faint dusky 

 tips ; the feathers of the thighs have faint dusky bars. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the crown and 

 occiput black. Total length 9-4 inches, culmen 1*2, wing 5, tail 3-25, 

 tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. Kumaon to Cashmere, north to Gilgit and ranging into 

 North-eastern Afghanistan. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Afghanistan (Griffith). India Museum. 



b, c. S ad. ; d. S Bvan Kiievl, May 1870 [R. Tweeddale Coll. 

 jiiv.sk. G. W.R.). 



e. 5 ad. sk. Peshawar, Jan. 1877. Colonel Way [P.]. 



