22. lYNGIPICUS. 



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coverts and the quills on both webs spotted with the same : shafts 

 blackish brown ; upper tail-coverts and the four central tail-feathers 

 uniform black, the lateral tail-feathers dusky brown, margined and 

 barred with huffy white ; shafts blackish brown ; forehead and 

 crown ashy brown ; occipital band scarlet ; nape and hind neck 

 black ; nasal plumes and lores huffy white ; face fulvescent, the side 

 of the neck and a superciliary stripe extending to it white, the 

 whole more or less streaked with blackish brown, the auricular 

 region having a broad stripe of this colour ; the malar region 

 dusky ; chin and upper throat white ; the whole of the under 

 surface of the body fulvescent, striated with blackish brown ; the 

 under tail-coverts fulvescent, with broader brown central stripes ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries fulvescent white, the former spotted 

 with black : " bill plumbeous ; irides red ; feet brown " {Jcrdoii). 

 Total length 4'9 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-3, tail I'To, tarsus 

 055 ; toes (without claws)— outer anterior 0*4, outer posterior U'5, 

 inner anterior 0"35, inner posterior 0-2. 



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

 occipital band. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-62, wing 3-3, 

 tail 1-65, tarsus 0-6. 



Bab. Sikhim, Bhotan, Assam (Khasia and Naga Hills). 



a. c? ad. ; 6, c. 5 ad. 



sk. 

 (^-^>. cJad. et imm. ; 



q-x. 5 ad. sk. 

 y. S ad._; z,a'. $ 



ad. et imni. sk. 

 b'. (S ad. sk. 

 c',d' . (S ad.; e',f', 



ff'. 2 ad. sk. 

 h', {'. (5 $ ad. sk. 

 k', /'.cJad. etinim.; 



m', n'. 5 ad. sk. 

 o'. 5 ad. sk. 

 p. c? ad. sk. 

 q". (5' iuim. sk. 



Native Sikhim, March, Oct. (Z. 



Mandelli). 

 Sikhim, Jan., Feb., March, June, 



Aug., Oct., Nov. (L. Mandelli). 

 Darjeeliug, March. 



Darjeeling. 



Bhotan Doars, Jan., Feb., April 



(i. Mandelli). 

 Khasia Hills {T. C. Jerdon). 

 N. Khasia Hills, Nov., Jan. {A. 



W. Chennell). 

 Naga HiUs [H.H.Godwin-Austen). 

 Jevpore, Assam. 

 ShiUong, July 1877 (J.Cockburn). 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



2. lyngipicus scintilliceps. 



Picas sp., Swinhoe, Ibis, 18G1, p. 340. 



Picas scintilliceps, Swin/ioe, Ibis, 1863, p. 96 ; Sundev. Consp. Av. 



Picin. p. 27 (1866) ; Graij, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 41 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 183, no. 8^77 (1870). 

 Bseopipo scintilliceps, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 55 (1863). 

 Picas canifrons, Sundev. Consp, Av. Picin. p. 26 (1866). 

 Yungipicas scintilliceps, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 392 ; David ^■ 



Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 50 (1878). 

 Ivngipicus scintilliceps, Huryitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 33 ; Gould, B. Asia, vi. 

 " pi. xxi. (1882) ; Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 229. 



Adult male. Upper back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts brownish 

 black, the middle and lower back as well as the rump white, the 

 two latter more or less barred with black ; wing-coverts and quills 



