312 picid-t:. 



B. Above olive-brown, striped or barred witli 



■white. 



d' . Larger : with complete occipital band of 

 red, this colour also borderiug the crown ; 

 a white superciliiiry stripe riinuing down 

 to the side of the nape which is dark olive- 

 brown ; back striped with white ; tail 

 uniform ramsayi J ad., p. 334. 



e'. Smaller : with red occipital band inter- 

 rupted ill the middle, but extending- to 

 behind the ear-coverta ; superciliary stripe 

 not running backwards beyond the middle 

 of the ear-coverts ; nape white ; back and' 

 tail barred temmincld S ^^; P- 335. 



C. Above, including scapulars, umber-brown, 



the rump and upper tail-coverts ( only) barred 



with dull white ; with red occipital band. . ohsolHus cJ ad., p. 336. 



1. lyngipicus semicoronatus. 



Picus pygmseus (old bird), Blyth, J. A. »S'. Beny. xiv. p. 197 (1845, 



no7i Viyors). 

 Picus semicoronatus, Malhe7-ie, Bull. Soc. cVHist. Nat. Metz, 1848, 



p. 21 ; id. Picidce, i. p. 148, pi. xxxiv. fig. 8 (1861) ; Sundev. Cmisp. 



Av. Picin. p. 27, no. 76 (1866) ; Gray, List Picidce Brit. Mi<s. 



p. 4U (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8584 (1870). 

 Picus rubricatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xviii. p. 804 (1849) ; id. Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. (33, no. 299 (1849) ; lieichenb. Scans. Picin<e, 



p. 373 (1854). 

 Yungipicus semicoronatus, Bp. Consp. Volua: Zygod. p. 8 (1854). 

 Picus meniscus*, Malh. Picidce, i. p. 151, pi. xxxv. figs. 2, 3, 4 (1861) ; 



Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 41 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 184, no. 8586 (1870) ; Simdev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 28 (1866). 

 Yungipicus rubricatus, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 276 (1862) ; Bulger, Ibis, 



1869, p. 156 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 8; Hume Sf Oates, Sir. F. 1875, 



p. CO ; Hime, Str. F. 1879, p. 87. 

 Bseopipo semicoronata. Cab. ^ Heine, 3Ius. Hein. Th. iv. p. 54 



(1863). 

 Bfeopipo menisca. Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 55 (1863). 

 lyngipicus meniscus, Harg. Ibis, 1882, p. 26 {ex Malh.). 

 lyngipicus semicoronatus, Harq. Ibis, 1882, p. 25 ; Gould, B. Asia, 



vi. pi. xxvi., d" 2 (1883) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 59 (1888). 



Adult male. Upper parts and wings black, the middle and lower 

 back, rump, and scapulars barred with white, the greater wing- 



* Picus meniscus of Malherbe was founded ii|3on a bird with a spotted 

 tail, but otherwise I'esembliiig /. semicoronatus. There are, however, in the 

 collection four specimens of the latter species, two from the K. Khasia Hills, 

 one from Sliillong, and one from Sikhim, which have the central tail-feathers 

 Diore or less spotted. In almost all the species or subspecies of lyiiyijmi there 

 are found individuals diiferiug slightly from typical examples (/. e. species 

 liaving, as a rule, the central tail-feathers imiform, have these occasionally 

 spotted, and vice ver>:d). It is therefore very pi-obable that it was from such 

 a specimen that Malherbe's P. meniscus wns c!escribed, and tlie above-mentioned 

 birds being undoubted I. semicoronatus, I cannot regard Malherbe's species as a 

 valid one. 



