264 piciD^. 



/. d ad.; (/,h. $ Karen Hills, Jan., April (E. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



ad. sk. IF. R.). 



i. <S jiiv. sk. Karen-nee, April 3, 1874 {JR. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



W. R.). 

 k,I. c?ad.; m,n,o. Tonphoo, March, April (R. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



5ad.etjuv.8k. W. R.). 



p,q. cS ad.; r. $ Pine Forests, Salween Distr., Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. Feb. 1874 ( Jl'. Damson). 



s,f. c? ? ad. sk. Mooleyit, Feb. 1877 ( W. Dam- Hume Coll. 



son). 

 u. $ ad. sk. Paraduba, Jan. 27, 1877 ( W. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 



26. Dendrocopus brunneifrons. 



Picus auriceps, Viq. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 44; Less. Compl. Buff. ix. 



p. ;307 (1837) ; Sunder. Vonsp. Av. Picm. p. 30 (1800). 

 Picus bruuni irons, Tig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 170; Gould, Cent. B.Himal. 



Mts. pi. lii., J $ (1832) ; Gniy, Gen. B. ii. p. 435 (1845) ; Bhjth, 



J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 196 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. i^-e. Nepal pres. 



Hodgs. 1846, p. 115 ; Bb/th, Cat. B. Mm. As. Son. p. (52 (184U) ; 



Bp. Cons}}. Gen. Av. i. p. 135 (1850); Reichenb. Scans. Pidncp, 



p. 369, no. 851, pi. dcxxxv. figs. 4220-27, J? (1854); Malh. 



Picidce, i. p. 107, pi. xviii. figs. 5-6, (^ 5 (IS'Jl); Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 183, no. 8569 (1870) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 7. 

 Dendrocopus briniifrons. Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 307 (1837); Hodgs. 



in Grmfs Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 85. 

 Picus (Leiopicus) brunneifrons, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 8, no. 66 



(1854). 

 Leiopicus brunnifrons, Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mns. E.I. Co. ii. 



p. 674 (1856-58) : Gray, Cat. Mamm. S^-c. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 



1803, p. 63. 

 Picus brunneifrons, Jerd. B. Ind. i. ]). 273 (1862) ; Gray, List Picid. 



Brit. Mus. p. 39 (1868); Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 320 ; Brooks, op. cit. 



1869, p. 47 ; Beavan, t. c. p. 412 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 232 ; 



Marsh. Ibis, 1884, p. 410. 

 Liopipo auriceps. Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 45 (1863). 

 Dryobates brunneifrons, Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 202. 

 Picus incognitus *, Scully, Str. F. 1879, pp. 240, 365. 



Adult male. Back, rump, and scapulars barred black aud whito, 

 the upper back crossed by a broad baud of almost uniform black ; 

 upper tail-coverts black : wings and their coverts black, the median 

 and the greater series of the latter and both webs of the quills 

 spotted -with white ; shafts nearly black ; tail black, the four central 

 feathers uniform, the next one spotted with white on the apical 

 portion of the outer web, the two outer large feathers having the 

 apical half, or thereabouts, white irregularly barred with black, the 

 outer webs margined with white to the base ; shafts black ; nasal 

 plumes fulvcsccnt brown ; crown umber-brown, slightly olivaceous, 

 the hinder feathers having golden tips and the occipital feathers 



* Not specifically distinct. 



