22. ITNGIPICUS. 317 



Debra Dhoon, Dec. 2, 1870. Hume Coll. 



Kalsi, Sept., Jan. Hume Coll. 



Patlee Dhoon, Gurhwal, Hume Coll. 



Jan. 2.3, 1870. 



Sansoo, May 29, 1874 Hume Coll. 



( W. E. Brooks). 



Naini Tal, Sept. 25, 1866. Hume Coll. 



Bursotee on Ramgunga, Hume Coll. 



Jan. 28, 1870. 



Nepal Valley, Dec. 24, 1877 Hume Coll. 



{J. Scully). 



Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



Nepal (B. H. Hodgson). India Museum. 



Nepal {B. H. Hodgson). Gould Coll. 



Bengal {Blacjrave). India Museum. 



(Types of P. mitchelli. Of. Horstleld & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 

 E.I. Co. p. 676.) 



4. lyngipicus wattersi. 



Ij'ngipicus wattersi, Salvad. i§- Gig.. Atti della R. Accad. Sc. Tor. 

 XX. p. 825 (1885). 



Adult male. Upper back and scapulars black, with a few white 

 stripes ; the remainder of the back and rump white, the latter with 

 a trace of black barring ; wings and their coverts black, the median 

 and the greater series, likewise both webs of the quills, spotted with 

 white ; shafts of the latter black ; upper tail-coverts and the six 

 central rectrices black without spots ; the lateral rectrices black, 

 more or less barred with buffy white : shafts black, brownish at the 

 base ; nasal plumes buffy white, tipped with black ; forehead pale 

 smoky brown, the crown ashy grey ; outer edge of the crown, the 

 occiput, nape, and hind neck black ; upon the side of the occiput 

 an orange-scarlet stripe ; sides of the face and neck white, the 

 ear-coverts umber-brown, and behind these a broad brownish- 

 black stripe ; malar stripe dusky ; chin and throat dusky, striped 

 with whitish ; under surface of the body dull white, becoming 

 browner posteriorly and on the under tail-coverts ; the underparts 

 are apparently spotted with black, but the feathers are in reality 

 broadly striped, the stinpe being contracted in the centre and the 

 base hidden by the feathers above, the exposed part has the cha- 

 racter of a spot ; thighs barred ; under tail-coverts with an almost 

 obsolete subapical brown spot; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, the edge of the wing black. Total length 6 inches, culmen 

 O'T, wing 3-7, tail 1*9, tarsus 0*7; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0'48, outer posterior 0*53, inner anterior 0'35, inner 

 posterior 0-28. 



Hah. Island of Formosa, the exact locality not known. 



