316 piciD^. 



Taf. dcxxxvi. figs. 4232-33 (1854) ; Malh. Picida;, i. p. 147, 



pi. xxxiv. tigs. 5-7 (1861) ; Gray, List. Picicl. Brit. Miis. p. 41 



(18(38) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 183, no. 8576 (1870). 

 Dendrocopus moluccensis, Hodqs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 384, figs. 159, 160; id. in Grca/s Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 

 Picus moluccensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 435 (1845, 7ion Gm.). 

 Picus zizuld, Gray, Cat. Mamm. ire Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 116 



(1846). 

 Picus mitclielli, Malh. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1849, p. 530; Bp. 



Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 136 (1850) : Eeichenh. Scans. Picince, p. 173 



(1854) ; 3Ialh. Picidce, i. p. 142, pi. xxxii. figs. 1, 2 (1861) ; Sundev. 



Consp. Av. Picin. p. 27 (1866) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 



p. 40 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 183," no. 8574 (1870). 

 Picus trisulensis, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 

 Picus nepalensis, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Yungipicus uiitchelli, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854). 

 Yungipicus scintilla, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854, ex Natt. 



MSS. in Mus. Vindob.). 

 Yungipicus pygmseu?, i?^. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854) ; Jerd. 



B. Lid. i. p. 277 (1863) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. i^c. Nepal pres. 



Hodgs. p. 63 (1863) ; Brooks, 8tr. F. 1875, p. 232 ; Hume, op. cit. 



1879, p. 87 ; Scully, torn. cit. 1879, p. 247. 

 Bseopipo pygmfeus, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 56 (1803). 

 BcBopipo mitclielli. Cab. 8f Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 55 (1863). 

 lyugipicus pygmfeus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 30. 



Adult male. Upper parts, also wings and their coverts, black, the 

 lower back and rump barred with white ; the median and the 

 greater wing-coverts and both webs of the quills spotted with 

 white, the shafts of the latter being bhack ; upper tail-coverts and 

 the four central tail-feathers uniform black, the lateral rectrices 

 browner and either barred or margined with buffy white ; shafts 

 brown with black tips ; forehead and crown smoky brown, the 

 outer edge of the crown, also the occiput and nape, black ; nasal 

 plumes and sides of the face and neck white, the ear-coverts sepia- 

 brown, with a black stripe behind, and a faint dusky malar stripe ; 

 chin and throat white ; the under surface of the body fulvescent, 

 narrowly striped with sepia-brown ; under tail-coverts slightly 

 fulvescent, broadly streaked and varied with brown ; under wing- 

 coverts huffy white spotted with black, the axillaries white. " In 

 December, bill horny-grey ; irides dark red ; feet dingy green " 

 {Scully). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0*67, wing 3-47, tail 

 rS, tarsus 0-6 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-35, outer 

 posterior 0"45, inner anterior 0'3, inner posterior 0*22. 



Adult female. Wants the scarlet stripe on the side of the occiput. 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-4, tail !•?, tarsus 0-55. 



Hah. Himalayan Provinces, west to Masuri, and extending east- 

 ward into liengal. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Himalayas. Zoological Society. 



(Tvpe of species.) 

 6, c, d. (S ad. sk. N.W. India. Pinwill Coll. 



e^f.(S ad. ; g, h. Masuri, Aug., Sept., Oct. Hume Coll. 



* 2 ad. sk. 



