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8. Dendrocopus cathpharius. 



Picus (l)eudrocopus) cathphnrius, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 184;J, p. 100(3. 

 Dendrocopus cathpliorius, Hodgs. in Gray's Misc. 1844, p. 80 ; id. 



Icon. Lied, in Brit. Mus. no. 154 S $ ad. 

 Picus catlipliarius, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 19G ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 435 (1845); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 63 (1849); Borsf. 



(^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 073 (1856-58) ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. i. p, 271 (1862) ; Gray, Cat. 3Iamm. Sec Nepal j^res. Ilodt/s. 



1863, p. 63 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 410 ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. 



31us. p. 37 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 182, no. 8559 (1870). 

 Picus catliphorius. Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^c. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 1846, 



p. 115; Malh. Picidce, i. p. 104, pi. xxiii. figs. 7c?, 8$ (1861). 

 Hypopicus catliphorius, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zyqod. p. S, no. 63 



(1854). . 

 Picus cathplioricus, Reichenb. Scans, ricinm, p. 377, no. 871, pi. dcxl. 



figs. 4267-68, S ? (1854) ; Simdev. Consp. Av. Picin. ii. 24 



(1866). 

 Xylocopus catlipliarius. Cab. i^- Heine, Mus. Ilein. iv. p. 51 (1863). 



Adult nude. Back, rump, upper tail-covei'ts, and scapulars blue- 

 black ; wiugs and their coverts black, the innermost of the median 

 and of the greater coverts white (except at the tip), this forming a 

 conspicuous patch ; the quills spotted with white on both webs ; 

 shafts blackish brown ; tail black, the four central feathers uniform, 

 the remainder barred with buff on more or less of the apical half ; 

 shafts of the same colour as the surrounding web ; nasal plumes and 

 frontal band huffy white, the former tipped with black ; crown blue- 

 black ; occiput and nape scarlet, the hind neck black ; sides of the 

 face and neck fulvoscent white, the neck crossed by a patch or 

 band of red extending from the nape; chin buffy white, mixed 

 with black at the angle, the throat and fore neck uniform buff, 

 and a broad black malar stripe bordering these ; entire underparts 

 below the fore neck, also the under tail-coverts, fulvescent buff 

 broadly striped with black (more densely so on the eliest and 

 breast), the central feathers of the chest and the under tail-coverts 

 tipped with red ; under wing-coverts white broadly striped with 

 black, and a conspicuous black paLch on the edge of the wing ; 

 axillaries fulvescent white. Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 0-8, 

 wing 3-93, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-62: toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0-42, outer posterior 0-58, inner anterior 0-37, inner pos- 

 terior 0'23. 



^klidt female. Wants the red nuchal baud ; the transverse patch 

 on the side of the neck reddisii buff' instead of bright scarlet ; the 

 chest devoid of red. Total length 6-4 inches, culmen 0-7, wino- 

 3-95, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-65. 



Young. In the male the side of the neck is pale buff, a few of 

 the feathers being tipjied with orange or red ; tlie side of the neck, 

 in the female, is clear pale buff devoid of any reddish colour. The 

 underparts in the young are very much less fulvescent. 



Hab. South-east Himalayas, Nepal, Sikhim and Bhotau, 



