22. lYNGipicrs. 



331 



Total length 4-7 inches, ciilmen 0-55, wing 2-9, tail 1-25, tarsus 



The young have the underparts striated, and in the male the red 

 6tn])e on the side of the occiput is more of an orano-e-scarlet. 



Hah. Ceylon, and the extreme southern portion of the peninsula 

 of India. 



a, h. cj' ad. sk. 

 c. S imm. ; d. $ 

 ad. sk. 



2 ad. sk. 

 L (S ad. sk. 

 m. (S ad. sk. 

 n. (S ad. sk. 



o. d' ad. sk. 



;'. c? imm. sk. 



q. d ad. sk. 

 r. c? ad. sk. 

 s. d ad. ; t. 5 

 imm. sk. 



Ce^ylon. 

 Ceylon. 



Ceylon (H. XeviU). 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon, Sept. 9, 1875. 



Ceylon, Jan. 26, 1872 ( W. 



V.Leijc/e). 

 Colombo. 



Kandy, July 19, 1877 



( W'hi/te). 

 Colta, i'eb. 1,1877 (Hart^. 

 Anjaugo, Travancore. 

 Anjango, Dec. 1872. 



H.Cuming, Esq. rC.]. 

 Gould Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Colouel Legge TP.]. 

 Hume Co]l. 



Philip Green, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Subsp. a. lyngipicus peninsularis. 



Picus nanus, Malherbe (non Vie/ors), Picklre, p. 14o, pi. xxxiii fie-^ 4 

 o (1861) pt. ; Sundei: Consp. Av. Picin. p. 28 (1866) ; G,ra/ Cat 



am) '^"'' ^" ^^ ^^^^^^ ' ''^" ^"'""" ^- "• P-^^^' no. 8579 



Yungipicus gymnophtbalmos, Boiird. Sir. F. 1876 p 389 pt 

 lyngipicus peninsularis, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 48 ; Gould, B. Asia, ri 



VI. pi. xxxiii., c? $ (1883). J , . 



''^ /i^llSx'^"® g}nmophtbalmus {non Blyth), Davison, Sir. F. x. p. 354 

 (lo83). ' 



Adult male. Eaek and scapulars blacldsh brown barred with 

 white ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, with stripe-like spots 

 of dark brown; wings and their coverts, also the tail-feathers 

 bhickish brown, the median and the greater coverts and both webs' 

 of the quills and tail-feathers spotted with white ; shafts of quiUs 

 dark brown, tliose of the rectriccs darker and nearly black at the 

 tip ; nasal plumes brownish wliite ; top of the head and occiput 

 dark brown, rufescent anteriorly, the nape and hind neck darker 

 than the crown ; upon the side of the occiput a scarlet stripe • lores 

 sides of the face and neck, chin and throat white ; ear-coverts of 

 the same colour as the crown, and behind them a broad darker 

 brown stripe down the side of the neck ; fore neck and the whole 

 of the underparts huffy white, more or less narrowly striped with 

 rufescent brown ; under tail-coverts dull white, striped with umber 

 brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaiies white, the former with 

 conspicuous blackish-brown spots : " bill and legs plumbeous ; 

 irides yellow-ochre; the bare orbital skin duU lake-red "' {F Bow 



