15. BEN^DROCOPTJS. 2G1 



Bonn. Enn. Mm. iii. p. 1310 (1823) ; Tetnm. PI. Col. pi. lix. 



fig. 2, S (1823); Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 159 (1S26) ; Less. 



Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 113, S (1828) ; id. Traite, i. p. 220 (1831) ; 



Gray, Hardw. Illustr. Ind. Zool. i. pi. xxxii., S 2 (1830-32) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 435 (1845) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 196 ; 



Gray, Cat. Mamm. S)C. Nepal pres. Hodr/s. 1846, p. 115 ; S>(7idev. 



Ann. Si- Mag. N. Hist. 1846, p. 309 ; Bh/'fh, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 62 (1849) ; id. J. A. S. B. 1849, p. 804; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. 



i. p. 135 (1850); Reichenh. Scans. PicincB, p. 369, no. 852 



(1854); Horsf. 8> Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 672 (1856- 



58) ; Malh. 'Picidce, i. p. 96, pi. xxiv. figs. 1-2, S ? (1861) : 



Jerd. B. Lid. i. p. 272 (1862) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. S,-c. Nepal 



pres. Hodc/s. 1863, p. 6-3 ; Simdev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 25 



(1866); Grai/, List Picid. Brit. Mms. p. 37 (1868); id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 183, no. 8563 (1870); Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 7; Hu7ne, 



Str. F. 1874, p. 471 ; Hume 8^ Davison, Sir. F. ri. p. 123 (1878) ; 



Cripps, op. cit. vii. p. 261 (1878) ; Scully, op. cit. 1879, pp. 245, 



367 ; Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 410. 

 Dendrocopus macei, Sivaifis. Classif. B. ii. p. 307 (1837). 

 Dendrocopus pyriceps, Hodgs. in Gray^s Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 85. 

 Picus -wagleri, Hartl. Cat. Brem. Mus. p. 91 (1844) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 435 (1845) ; Beichenh. Scans. PicincB, p. 368, no. 849, pi. dcxxxiv. 



fig. 4223, d" (1854). 

 Yungipicus macei, Bp. Consp. Vohicr. Zyyod. p. 8, no. 72 (1854). 

 Deudrotypes macei. Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 46 (1863); 



Blyth ^- Wald. B. Burm. p. 77 (1875). 

 Picus macii, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 354 ; Layard, Ibis, 1868, p. 249; 



Cock Sf Marshall, Str. F. 1873, p. 350 ; Hume, op. cit. 1880, p. 247 ; 



Oates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 33 (1883) ; Hu)ne, Str. F. xi. p. 57 



(18S8). 

 Picus westermani, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 163. 



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

 the upper tail-coverts and a broad zone across the upper back uni- 

 form, the remainder being barred with white ; wings and their 

 coverts black, the median and the greater coverts as well as both 

 webs of the quills spotted with white ; shafts black ; tail black, the 

 two outer large feathers barred with white on more or less of the 

 apical portion ; shafts black ; nasal plumes and base of forehead 

 brownish buff ; crown and occiput crimson ; nape and hind neck 

 black ; sides of the face and neck uniform buffy white or pale buff; 

 the chin, throat, and fore neck also uniform, but of a pure buff : a 

 black malar stripe borders the throat and fore neck and terminates 

 on the side of the chest in a series of longitudinal spots or stripes ; 

 the underparts below the fore neck dusky buff, striped with 

 blackish, the stripes more intense on the sides of the body, the flanks 

 and thighs barred with black ; vent and under tail-coverts scarlet ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillarics white, the former barred with 

 black. Total length T'-t inches, culmen 1, wing 4-4, tail 2"55, 

 tarsus 0-7 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'5, outer pos- 

 terior 0-0, inner anterior 0"45, inner posterior 0-25. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the entire 

 crown and occiput black : " bill plumbeous dusky, grey horny at 

 base ; feet greenish plumbeous " {Sadly). Total length 7*5 inches, 

 culmen U'97, wing ^-2, tail 2-55, tarsus 0*75. 



