27. LEPOCESTES. 379 



with black ; forehead, crown, occiput, and nape dull crimson, the 

 bases of the feathers sooty brown ; hind neck sooty brown ; lores 

 face, and upper part of the side of the neck buffy brown, the malar 

 region and lower side of the neck darl^er brown ; chin, throat, and 

 fore neck buffy brown, the feathers having creamy-white bases ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries brownish black, the former having 

 one or two longitudinal spots of white near the edge of the wing. 

 Amongst the body-feathers, both above and below, are one or two 

 of a rich maroon-colour, more or less tipped with crimson, appearing, 

 evidently those of the adult plumage ; the bill is whitish, horny or 

 bluish at the base ; legs and feet plumbeous blue ; claws blackish 

 brown. Total length 10-3 inches, culmen 1-32, wing 5-76, tail 3-8, 

 tarsus 1-1 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-7, outer posterior 

 0-86, inner anterior 0-6, inner posterior 0-38. 

 Ifah. Loo Choo Islands, 



a. Juv. sk. Great Loo Choo Island, Aug. Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 

 1886 (H. Fryer). (Type of species.) 



27. LEPOCESTES. 



Blythipicus, 5;j. Consp. Vohwr. Zijgod. no. 98(1854) L. porphyromelas. 

 Pyrrhopicus, Malh. Introd. 3[onoi/r. Picid. p. liii. 



,C1^1>1 ) .' L. pyrrhotis. 



Plmthopicus, Malh. Introd. Monogr. Picid. p. liii. 



^ (I'^'Jl) " L. porphyromelas. 



Lepocestes, Cab. S,- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 1 10 



(1S63; L. pyrrhotis. 



Bill of Lepccestes pyrrhotis. 



Range. Eastern Himalayan Provinces, into Cachar and Manipur ; 

 through Burmah and the Malayan Peninsula into Sumatra and Eorneo.' 



Key to the Species. 



A. Larger : length 10-5 inches, culmen 2, win» 

 5"5 ; barred above. " 



a'. With red on the sides of the nape. 



a". Top of the head nearly uniform ; the 

 red on the side of the nape very brilliant 

 and forming a conspicuous patch .... pyrrhotis ^ ad., p. 380. 



