328 piciDji;. 



the feathers spotted upon both webs with white, the dwarf feather 

 also tipped with the same ; sliafts brown, the tips black ; forehead 

 and crown browner than the back ; nape black ; lores, a broad 

 snpcrciliarj- stripe continued down the side of the neck, and checks 

 white ; from behind the eye, including the ear-coverts, and running 

 down the side of the neck, a broad stripe of brown ; a well-defined 

 brown malar stripe ; cbiii and throat white ; entire underparts, 

 including under tail-coverts, brownish white, broadly but faintly 

 streaked with dusky brown ; under wing-coverts white spotted 

 with dusky brown ; axillaries white. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0*65, wing 2'05, tail l"3o, tarsus 0"62 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0-42, outer posterior 0*48, inner anterior 0'35, inner 

 posterior 0*2. 



Hah. North-west Himalayas (Dhurmsala &c.) *. 



a. (S ad. sk. Dhurmsala. Pinwill Coll. 



b, c. 6 ad. sk. N.W. India. Pinwill Coll. 



13. Ijmgipicus hardwickii. 



Picus moluccensis, Gray {non Gm.) in Ilardw. III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 33. 



figs, a, b (1830-32) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Bemj. xiv. p. 197 (184.5). 

 Picus (Deudrocopus) hardwickii, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 138 



(1844). 

 Picus hardwickii, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xv. p. 15 (1846) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 136 (1850). 

 Picus cinereigula, Malh. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1849, p. 531 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 136 (1850); Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 373 (1854). 

 Picus variegatus, Blyth {non Wayl.), Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 64 



(1849). 

 Yungipicus variegatus, Horsf. ^ Moore (non Wayl.), Cat. B. E. 1. 



Co. Mus. ii. p. 675 (1854). 

 Yungipicus hardwickii, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zi/yod. p. 8 (1854) ; Jerd. 



B. Ind. i. -p. 278 (lSG-2); Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 354; Jerd. Ibis, 



1872, p. 8 ; Butler, Str. F. 1876, p. 36 ; Fairb. to7n. cit. p. 255. 

 Picus (Yungipicus) hardwickii, Blcmf. J. A. S. B. 1869, p. 168. 

 Yungipicus nanus, Ball {)ion Viyors), Str. F. 1874, p. 390; Hume, 



Str. F. 1875, p. 00 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind Sfc. p. 18 (1879) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 87 ; Butler, Cat. B. of the S. Portion of 



Bombay Presidency, 1880, p. 22. 

 lyngipicus hardwickii, Harqitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 45 ; Goidd, B. Asia, 



vi. pi. xxviii., 6 6 (1883). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and rump dusky brown, barred with 

 white ; upper tail-coverts white, striped with brownish black ; wing- 

 coverts and quills dusky brown, the median and the greater coverts 

 and both webs of quills spotted with white ; shafts dark brown ; 

 tail brownish black, the feathers spotted with white on both webs ; 



* The occurrence in such a remote region of a species which is ahuost identical 

 •with the Malayan I. auritus, is very remarkable, but Captain Stackhoiise Pinwill 

 assures me that there is not a shadow of doubt as to the specimens in cpiestion 

 having been obtained by him in the region assigned to them. 



