332 



(IlHou). Total length 4-5 inches, cnlmen 0-6, wing 2-9, tail 1-45, 

 tarsus 0'55 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'33, outer 

 l^osterior 0-42, inner anterior 0-32. inner posterior 0"2. 



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

 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 2-9, tail 1*4, tarsus 0-5. 



Hab. The Peninsula of India, north to Eelgaum. 



«. $ ad. sk. 



b. cj ad. ak. 



c. c? ad. sk. 



d. c? ad. sk. 

 e-h. (S ad. ; t. 



Juv. sk. 

 k. (S ad. sk. 



/, m. (5'imm.: w,o,p. 

 5 ad. et imm. sk. 

 q, r. 5 imm. .sk. 



8. c? imm. sk. 



t. 5 ad. sk. 



u. (S ad. sk. 



Madras (T. C. Jenlon). 



Madras. 



Belgaum (E. A. Butler). 



Malabar Coast. 



Malabar Coast. 



Malabar Coast, Dec. 1868 



{Col. Sturt). 

 Baudapur, Mysore, May 1881 



( W. Dav/son). 

 Muddur, Mysore, May 22, 



1881 (W. Davison). 

 Seegore, Nilgbiris, Feb. 21, 



1881 [W. Davison). 

 Mynall, Travancore, Feb. 18, 



'1876 (F. W. Bourdillon). 

 Macbin-, Lower Palani Hills, 



June 14, 1877 (S.B. Fair- 

 bank). 



Gould Coll. 

 Rev.lI.II.Baber[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



15. lyngipicus maculatus. 



Petit Pic d'Autigiie, So7m. Voij. Nouv. Guin. p. 118, pi. 77 (1776). 

 Le petit fipeicbe (pt.), Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 64 (1780, ex 



iSonn.). 

 Picus maculatus, Scop. Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. p. 89 (1 780, e.v 



So?m.) ; Jerd. B. hid. i. p. 279 (1863). 

 Picus minor, var. b, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 230 (1790). 

 Picus moluccensis, Less. Traite, i. p. 221 (1831, wow Gm.) ; Mal- 



herbe, Picida, i. p. 143, pi. xxxii. (1861). 

 Picus nanus, Blyth, J. A. S. Bene/, xiv. p. 197 (1845, non Vif/ors). 

 Picus validirostris, Blyth, Cat. B. Miis. As. Sac. p. 64 (1849) ; id. 



J. A. S. Beng. xviii. p. 805 (1849) ; JHeichenb. Scans. PicincB, 



p. 373 (1854); Svndev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 29 (1866); Gray, 



List Picid. Brit. Mm. p. 43 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 184, 



no. 8582 (1870). 

 Picus flavinotus, Malh. Picidce, i. p. 144 (1861 , e.v spec, in Mvs. 



Brit.). 

 Baiopipo validirostris. Cab. «§• Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 60 



(1863). 

 Picus (Yungipicus) validirostris, Martens, J.f. O. 1866, p. 20. 

 Yungipicus maculatus, Waldeti, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 148 (1875) ; Sharps, 



Tr. Lhm. Soe. 1877, Zool. i. p. 350 ; Kiitter, J.f. O. 1883, p. 295. 

 lyngipicus maculatus, Ilaryitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 26; Gould, B.Asia, vi. 



pi. xxx., cJ ? (1883). 



Adult male. Upper parts, together with the wings and tail, also 

 their coverts, brownish black, the back and scapulars narrowly 

 barred, the rump and upper tail-coverts more broadly barred with 



