15. DENDEOCorrs. 227 



d. $ ad. sk. Near Plains of Esdraelou, Salviu-Godiiiau Coll. 



March 18, 1864 {H. B. 



Tristram). 

 e,f. 5 ad. sk. Persia. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. 



ff. S jnv. sk. Persia, July 21, 187i>. W. T. Blanford [C.J. 



/«. 2 'id. sk. Near Xeyreez, S.Persia, Feb. Gould Coll. 



9, 1850 {Keith Abbott), 

 i. ? juv. sk. Kobrud, N. of Ispahan, July W. T. Blanford, Esq. fP.l. 



24, 1872. 

 k. S ad. sk. Shiraz, June 1870 {Sir 0. W. T. Blanford, Esq. TP.]. 



St. John). 

 I. 2 ad. sk. Caspian (Sir 0. St. John). W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



12. Dendrocopus scindeanas. 



Picus assimilis, Natt., Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zifgod. p. 8, no. 61 (1854) ; 



Malh. Bull. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Moselle, 1857, p. 6; id. Picida-, i. 



p. (.9, pi. xix. figs. 1, 2, c? $ (1861); Sunder. Consp. Av. Picin. 



p. 2.3 (1866) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 34 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. 



5. ii. p. 181, no. 8546(1870). 

 Picus scmdeanus, Horsf. S) Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 671 



(1856-58); Malh. Picidcp, i. p. 73 (1861); Sundev. Consp. Av. 



Picin. p. 23 (1866) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 182, no. 8557 (1870) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 170. 

 Picus sciudianus, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 273 (1862); Gray, List Picid. 



Brit. Mus. p. 36 (1868) ; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 579 ; Jerd. op. cit. 



1872, p. 7 ; Hume Sf Henders. Lahore to Yark. Nat. Hist. p. 179, 



pi. ii. (1873) ; Murray, Str. F. vii. p. Ill (1878) ; Scr. Boiq, op. 



cit. 1879, p. 370; Sir O. B. St. John, If)is, 1889, p. 157. 

 Dendrocopus assimdis, Cab. ^.^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 37 (1863). 

 Dendrocoptes scindeanus, Cab. ^~ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 42 (1863). 

 Picus sindiauus, Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 132 (1876) ; Butl. Cat. B. 



Sind Sfc. p. 18 (1879) ; C. Simih. This, 1882, p. 102. 



Adult male. Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts black ; scapulars 

 white ; wings and their coverts black, the innermost of the median 

 and of the greater series of the coverts white, this forming a con- 

 spicuous patch, the quills spotted with white upon both webs ; shafts 

 dark brown ; tail black, the four central feathers uniform, the next one 

 tipped with wliite, the two outer large feathers on either side having 

 their apical portion white barred with black ; shafts black ; nasal 

 plumes and forehead huffy white; crown and occiput crimson ; nape 

 and hind neck black ; sides of the face and neck and the underparts 

 from the chin downwards white, the ear- coverts and the underparts 

 more or less tinged with buff; the abdomen, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts washed with scarlet ; a black malar stripe borders the throat 

 and extends to the side of the chest, and the thighs are faintly striped 

 with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. Total length 

 8 inches, culmen 1-1.5, wing 4"7, tail 2-8, tarsus 0*8; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-5, outer posterior 0'56, inner anterior 0*43, 

 inner posterior 0"28. 



Adult female. Has the crown and occput black, but otherwise 

 resembles the adult male. Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 1, 

 wing 4"4o, tail 2'65, tarsus O'S. 



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