380 piciD^. 



b". Top of the head striped ; the red on the 



side of the nape forming- a narrow band, pyrrhotis cJ juv., p. 381. 

 U . With no red on the sides of the nape. 



c". Top of the head uniform pyrrhotis 5 ad., p. 381. 



d". Top of the head striped jn/rrhotis j juv., p. 381. 



B. Smaller: length 8'5 inches, culmen 1'55, 

 wing 4'8 ; uniform above. 

 c. Wings spotted ; tail uniform. 



e". With a patch of red on the side of the [p. 382. 



nape jwrphyromelas c? ad., 



/". With no red on the side of the nape . . poriihyromelas 5 ad., 

 d' . Wings aud tail narrowly barred with dusky [p. 383. 



white porphyromelas c? juv., 



[p. 383. 



1. Lepocestes pyrrhotis. 



Picus pyi-rhotis, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. 1837, p. 108, c? ; Sundev. Co7isp. 



Av. Picin. p. 47 (1806). 

 Chloronerpes pyrrhotis, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 8o. 

 Meig'lyptes pyrrhotis. Gray, Cat. Mamm. S^c. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 



1840, p. 117; id. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 22 (1849); Reichenb. 



Scans. Picinee, p. 404, no. 943, pi. dclix. %s. 4378-79, cJ S (1854). 

 Celeopicos pyrrhotis, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, 



p. 335. 

 (xecinus pyrrhotis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 59, no. 271 



(1849). 

 Blythipicus pyrrhotis, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 9, no. 99 (1854) ; 



Hmne, Str. F. vii. p. 520 (1878) ; id. op. cit. 1879, p. 88, no. 176; 



Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 63 (1888). 

 Venilia pyrrhotis, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 666, 



no. 972 (1856-58); Jerd. B. hid. i. p. 291 (1862); Gray, Cat. 



Mamm. Sfc. Nepal pres. Hodi/s. p. 64, no. 487 (1863) ; Beacan, 



Ibis, 1865, p. 411 ; Bah/, op.'cit. 1869, p. 157 ; Jerd. op. cit. 1872, 



p. 9 ; Hmne, Str. F. 1874, p. 472 ; Bhjth Sf Wald. B. Burm. 1875, 



p. 77 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 26 ; id. Sf Davison, op. cit. 1878, 



vi. p. 142 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 39 (1883). 

 Celeopicus pyrrhotis, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 37, pi. xlix. figs. 4 cJ , 5 $ 



(1862). 

 Lepocestes pyrrhotis, Cah. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 110 (1863) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 279. 

 Canapephilus pyrrhotis. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 188, no. 8633 (1870). 



Adult male. Above, together with the wings, tail, and their 

 coverts, barred rufous and black, the back washed with dull reddish ; 

 shafts of quills and of rectrices orange-reddish; head aud neck 

 brown, paler aud more buff anteriorly, with a few pale brown 

 striations on the fore part of the crown ; on each side of the nape 

 a large patch of scarlet, the central nuchal feathers only tinged with 

 red ; fore neck and chest reddish brown, grading into dusk)' brown 

 on the remainder of the underparts ; under tail-coverts barred rufous 

 and black ; under wing-coverts rufous, barred with black. Total 

 length 10-5 inches, culmen 2, wing 5-5, tail 3-3, tarsus 1-05; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0'85, outer posterior 0-87, inner 

 anterior 0-6, inner posterior O'o. 



