15. DENDEOCOPTTS. 263 



^<^ S ad. sk. Calcutta. Plume Coll. 



v\ (S juv. sk. Mudclapur, Oct 10, 1878 ( W. E. Hume Coll. 



Brooks). 



w\ $ ad. sk. Bhudeseu, Oct. 10, 187S ( W. E. Hume Coll. 



Brooks), 



x". Skeleton. India. Purchased. 



25. Dendrocopus atratus. 



Picus atratus, Blyt/i, J. A. S. B. 1849, p. 80;^ ; id. Cat. B. Mits. As. 



Sue, App. i. p. 313 (1849) ; id. J. A. S. B. 1859, p. 412 ; Malh. 



Picidce, i. p. 72 (18G1) ; Jerd. B. Lid. i. p. 275 (1862); Sundev. 



Consp. Ar. Picin. p. 25 (1866) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mm. p. 38 



(1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 183, no. 8567 (1870) ; Hume, Str. F. 



1874, p. 471 ; Wald. Ibis, 1876, p. 343, pi. ix., cJ ? ; Ifiwie, Str. F. 



1877, p. 113 ; id. Sf Davison, op. cit. vi. pp. 123, 500 (1878) ; 



Wardl.-Rams. Tioeedd. Mem. p. 427 (1881); Oates, B. Brit. 



Burm. ii. p. 34 (1883) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 58 (1888). 

 Dendrotypes atratus. Cab. ^- Heine, 3Ius. Hein. iy. p. 49 (1863) ; 



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

 Picus harmandi, Oustalet, Bull. Soe. Philom. 1879, pp. 214-5 ( ^J juv.). 



Adult male. Resembles D. macii, but differs in having the face 

 aud side of the neek pure white ; the chiu and throat also white, 

 the lower throat, fore neck, and chest striped with black, the latter 

 very broadly so : the under surface of the body more fulvescent and 

 the black striations broader ; a broader frontal band of smoky white, 

 the upper feathers having dusky tips ; the dimensions are greater : 

 " legs and feet dusky leaden, soles yellowish hoary ; claws dark 

 brown ; bill horny black, bluish grey at gape and base of lower 

 mandible ; irides lac-red " {Hume). Total length 8-25 inches, cul- 

 men 1-12, wing 4-5, tail 2*7, tarsus 0-73; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0-53, outer posterior 0*62, inner anterior 0*43, inner 

 posterior 0'28. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the red on 

 the top of the head ; the forehead (except at the extreme base), 

 crown, occiput, and nape being uniform deep black ; the under sur- 

 face of the body rather loss fulvescent. Total length 8"6 inches, 

 culmen 1*15, wing 4'8, tail 2-8, tarsus 0-82. 



Young male. Resembles the adult male in having the top of the 

 head red, but it is of an orange-scarlet, not crimson ; the chin and 

 throat are purer white, and the underparts are much more dusky 

 and have scarcely any fulvescent tinge : the under tail-coverts are 

 pale brick-red. 



Hah. British Burmah (and probably Xative Burmah), north to 

 Manipur ; in Tenasserim south to Mooleyit ; eastward ranging into 

 Laos *. 



a, b. c? ad. ; c, d, Aimole, Manipur, April, May Hume Coll. 



e. ? ad. sk. (A. O. H). 



* P. harmandi of Oustalet, which I take to be the young of the present 

 species, is from the latter coimtry. 



