8. lyngipicus canicapillus. 



Picus canicapillus, B/ytk, J. A. S. Ben(/. xiv. p. 197 (1845), xv. p. 14 



(1840), xvi. p. 4G7 (1847), xviii. p. 805 (1849) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



As. Soc. p. 64 (1849); Graij, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849); 



Eeichenh. Scans. Bicm(P, -p. 373(1854); 3Ia/h. Pkuhc, i. p. 141 



(1861) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 29 (1866) : Grui/, List I'icid. 



Brit. 3I)(s. p. 43 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8581 (1870) ; 



Gates, B. Brit. Biirm. ii. p. 36 (1883). 

 Yungipicus tiisulensis, Bp. Consp. Vohwr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854, non 



Licht.). 

 Yungipicus canicapillus, Ilorsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mxs. JS.I. Co. ii. 



pp. 677, 992 (1856-58) ; Jer'd. B. Ind. i. p. 279 (1862) ; BI,/t/i, Uis, 



1870, p. 163 ; Hume, Sfr. F. 1874, p. 471 ; Blyth ^- tVald. B. 



Burm. p. 78 (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, pp. 14, 59; Armstront/, 



Str. F. 1876, p. 309; ILmie, op. cit. 1877, pp. 25, 113; Himie'^ 



Davison, op. cit. 1878, vi. p. 125 ; iid. torn. cit. App. p. 500 ; Hume, 



op. cit. 1879, p. 87. 

 Breopipo canicapilla. Cab. 8^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Tli. iv. p. 58 (1803). 

 Picus, sp., Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 413. 

 lyngipicus canica]iillus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 39 ; Gates, Str. F. 



1882, p. 190 ; Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. xxvii., c? $ (1883) ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 1887, p. 578 ; Hume, Str. F. 



xi. p. 60 (1888). 



Adult male. Above, including wings and tail and their coverts, 

 black, the back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and the scapulars barred 

 with white ; the median and the greater wing-coverts, and the 

 quills, on both webs, spotted with white ; the central rectriccs 

 spotted, and the lateral ones barred M'ith white ; shafts of quills and 

 of rectrices black ; top of the head ashy grey, the occiput, nape, and 

 hind neck black ; upon the side of the occiput a scarlet stripe ; nasal 

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

 brown, with a broad black stripe behind ; malar region slightly 

 dusky ; chin and throat uniform pure white ; the under surface of 

 the body dull white, slightly fulvesceut, entirely striped with black ; 

 under tail-coverts dull white with a broad brown central stripe, or 

 other transverse and varied markings ; under wing-coverts white 

 spotted with black, the axillaries white : " bill dark plumbeous, 

 paler at gape and on the greater portion of the lower mandible : 

 iris reddish hazel ; eyelids purplish blue ; feet dusky green ; claws 

 horn-colour '" {Gates). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0'67, 

 wing 3'2, tail 1"6.5, tarsus 0-5c5 ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0"35, outer posterior 0'45, inner anterior 0'3, inner 

 posterior 0'2. 



Adult female, llesembles the male, but lucks the red stripe on the 



