394 riciDA-. 



pi. dclviii. fig:. 4377 2(1 S-W); Jlorsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 



Mus. ii. p. GU7 (185G-58) ; Jenl. B. Ind. i. p. 294 (1862) ; Gray, 



Cat. Mnmm. S)-c. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. G4, no. 488 (186-3); Jerd. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 10 ; Godwin- Austen, J. A. S. B. xliii. p. 17G (1874) ; 



Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 392 ; Hume, t. c. p. 472; id. Sf Oates, op. cit. 



1875, p. 72 ; Btyth Sf Wald. B. Burnt, p. 77 (1875) ; Gammie, 



Str. F. 1876, p. 511; Hume, op. cit. 1877, p. 480; id. op. cit. 1878, 



vi. pp. 145, 501 ; Ball, op. cit. 1878, vii. p. 200 , Crij)ps, t. c. p. 262 ; 



Sculli/, op. cit. 1879, pp. 249, 365. 

 Meiglyptes bracliyunis (non Vieill.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. Sj-c. Nepal 



pres. Hod(/s. p. 117 (1840). 

 Phaiopicos blytliii, Malh. Bev. et May. Zool. 1849, p. 534. 

 Meiglyptes phaioceps. Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 22 (1849) ; id. List 



Field. Brit. Mus. p. 124 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 203, no. 8840 



(1870). 

 Meiglyptes rufiuotus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 113 (1850). 

 Phaiopicus rufinotus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 1, pi. xlvi. iigs. 1, 2 (1862). 

 Micropterniis plipeoceps, Beavati, Ibis, 1865, p. 411 ; Bulger, op. cit. 



18C.9, p. 157 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 88 ; id. op. cit. 1880, p. 112 ; 



Bingham, t. c. p. 104 ; Oates, op. cit. 1882, x. p. 192 ; id. B. Brit. 



Burm. ii. p. 57 (1883); Hargitt, Ibis, 1885, p. 3; Saluad. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Star. Nat. Genova, 1887, p. 580, 1888, p. 568 ; Hzime, 



Str. F. xi. p. 64 (1888). 

 Picas rufinotus, Sundev. Consj). Av. Picin. p. 88 (1866) ; Giebel, Thes. 



Orn. iii. p. 178 (1876). 

 Micropternus burmauicus, Hume, P. A. S. B. 1872, pp. 70, 71. 

 Micropterniis rufinotus, Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 1876, p. 70. 

 Micropternus bracliyunis (non Vieill.), Tiraid, Ois. Basse Cochin- 

 chine, p. 90 (1879). 



Adult male. General colour rufous, the top of the head dusky 

 brown ; above, including wings and tail and their coverts, entirely 

 and narrowly barred with black, the bars on the tail much narrower 

 than the interspaces ; the tips of the primaries and of the central 

 tail-feathers black ; shafts of quills clear orange-brown, those of the 

 tail-feathers darker and of a dusky-reddish colour ; immediately 

 below the eye a crimson spot ; feathers of the chin, throat, and 

 malar region of the same colour as the underparts, each web mar- 

 gined with pale ochreous ; underparts with only a few black bars 

 on the flanks and thighs, and the under tail-coverts having some 

 almost obsolete bars of black : under wing-covcrts with ouly a few 

 transverse black spots. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 1-18, wing 

 4-9, tail 2"5, tarsus 0*9 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-72, 

 outer posterior 0-68, inner anterior 0-5, inner posterior 0'28. 



Adult female. E-esembles the adult male, but wants the red spot 

 below the eye. Total length 8 inches, culmen 1*07, wing 4-75, tail 

 2'G, tarsus O'So. 



Younger birds have the underparts considerably varied with black 

 cresccntic markings. The soft parts in this species are as follows: — 

 " irides brown ; eyelids plumbeous ; bill dark brown, nearly black, 

 plumbeous at base of lower mandible ; iuside of mouth rosy fleshy; 

 legs and feet greyish brown ; claws horn-colour " {E. W. Oate.s). 



Hah. North-eastern India (extending west to Dehra Dhoon) and 



