224 



a. 2 inmi. sk. 



b. (S ad. sk. 



c. c? ad. ; d, e. 

 Imm. sk. 



/, f/, h. S ad. ; i. 



$ ad. sk. 

 k-s. c? ad. ; ^- 



c. 5 ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 d'-g'. S ad. ; //'. 



2 ad. sk. 

 i'. 2 ad. ; k'. (S 



juv. sk. 

 v. 2 imm, sk. 

 in' ,71 , o. c5'ad. sk. 



Himalayas. Gould Coll. 



Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



Nopal (Z?. //. Hodgson). India Museum. 



Native Silcliim, .Ian., March, April, Hume Coll. 



Ang. (Z. Maiidclli). 



Sikliim, Jan., Feb., March, A]iril, Hume Coll. 



Julj', Aug., Oct,, Nov., Dec. 



{L. Mandelli). 



Darjeeling. Hume Coll. 



Darjeeliug. Tweeddale Coll. 



Darjeeling. India Museum. 



Bhotan (Pemberton). India iMuseum. 



9. Dendrocopus pyrrhothorax. (Plate IV.) 



Picus pyrrhothorax, Hume, iStr. F. x. p. 150 (1881) ; id. op. cit. xi. 

 p. 57 (1888). 



Adult male. Hesembles D. cathpliarius, but differs in being 

 smaller, and in having the lores and sides of the face and neck 

 ])urc white ; the whole under surface of the body very ranch less 

 fulvcscent and with less black on the chest ; the apical portion of 

 the feathers of the fore neck and chest scarlet, this colour forming 

 a con.spicuous patch ; the under tail-coverts not striped with black 

 and more washed with red ; the greater wing-coverts having in 

 addition to the two white spots on the inner web a white spot 

 near the base of the outer web, this being more or less exposed ; the 

 barring on the outer large tail-feather more developed ; the bill 

 smaller and narrower and of a leaden dusky, not horn colour : 

 " legs and feet dull sap-green : claws horny dusky ; bill leaden 

 dusky, paler at base of lower mandible towards gonj's ; iridcs lac " 

 {Hume). Total length G-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-8, tail 2-4, 

 tarsus 0-68 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*4, outer pos- 

 terior 0'45, inner anterior 0-'67, inner posterior 0'2. 



Female {fide Hume). Eesembles the adult male, the slight 

 differences being that in the present sex the black stripes down tlie 

 sides of the throat do not unite on the chest, and the black sfriations 

 on the chest and breast are fewer and narrower ; there is also a 

 larger araount of white on the outer tail-feathers, the white bars 

 being broader and more or less confluent with the spot nearer the 

 base, " Legs and feet dusky lavender ; claws brown ; bill blackish 

 horny, greyish at base of lower mandible ; irides lac-red " {A. 0. 

 Hume). Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 3'8, tail 2-4, 

 tarsus 0'(32. 



It is very remarkable that in the present species, so closely allied 

 to P. cathpliarius, the female should not possess the same sexual 

 distinction as the female of the latter. Mr. Hume sexed both 

 specimens of his P. pijrrhotlwra.r, which proved to be a male and a 



