30. BEACHYPTEENUS. 405 



Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 411 ; Grai/, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p, 95 



(1868) ; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 415 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 196, 



no. 8744 (1870) ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 267 ; Holdsw. 



P. Z. S. 1872, p. 428; Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 407; Hume, Str. F. 



1873, p. 92 ; Adam, t. c. p. 373 ; Ball, op. cit. 1874, p. 392 ; Bntl. 



op. cit. 1875, p. 458, 1876, p. 34 ; Ball, op. cit. vii. p. 206 (1878) ; 



Cripps, t. c. p. 263 ; Hume, op. cit. 1879, p. 88, no. 180; Bvil. Cat. 



B. Sind Src, nos. 180, 182 (1879) ; Beid, Str. F. x. p. 25 (1881) ; 



J. Davidson, t. c. 1882, p. 298; TV. Davison, Str. F. 1883, x. 



p. 356 ; Swinh. 4- Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 02. 

 Brachypternus igniceps, Hodi/s. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85, no. 172 



(1844). 

 Brachypternus dilutus *, Blytk, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 550 ; Jerd. B. 



Lid. i. p. 297; Cab. S,- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 170 (1863); 



Bhith, Ibis, 1866, p. 356; Gratj, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 95 



(1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 196, no. 8749 (1870); Jerd. Ibis, 



1872, p. 10; Hume, t. c. p. 468; Elwes, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 675; 



Murray, Str. F. vii. p. Ill (1878) ; Hume, op. cit. 1879, p. 88, 



no. 182 ; Scrope Doiy, t. c. p. 370. 

 Brahmapicus aiirantius, Malh. N. Classif., Metn. Acad. Metz, 1848- 



49, p. 345. 

 Brachypternus aurantius, yar. dilutus, Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 56 (1849). 

 Brachypternus chrysouotus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zyyod. p. 10, no. 179 



(1854). 

 Brahmapicus bengalensis, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 93, pi. Ixix. figs. 5 ^ 



6? (1802). 



Adult male. Middle back and scapulars deep golden yellow, the 

 extreme upper back and hind neck, lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coyerts brownish black ; lesser and median wing-coyerts black, 

 the latter washed with golden oliye, the greater series golden oliye, 

 the whole (except along the forearm) being spotted with buffy 

 white or golden white ; quills brownish black, the outer webs of 

 the secondaries uniform oliye-golden, the primaries sj)otted with 

 white upon both webs, the secondaries (except the innermost) 

 haying the inner webs spotted with white ; shafts blackish brown ; 

 tail-feathers and the shafts black ; upper half of loral region and 

 the supercilium black, striped with white ; forehead and crown 

 crimson, the feathers haying black bases, the occipital feathers 

 crimson, with a white shaft-stripe ; sides of the face and neck 

 creamy white, behind the eye, and the auricular region striped with 

 black ; the malar region, chin, throat, and fore neck black broadly 

 striped with white ; the whole of the under surface of the body 

 buffy white, the feathers margined with black, yery broadly so on 

 the chest ; the upper series of under tail-coyerts buffy white 

 margined with black, the lower series black with large and irregular 

 spots of white ; under wing-coverts and axillarics buffy white, the 

 former margined with black, the latter barred with the same. 

 Total length 11 inches, culmen 165, wing 5-6, tail 3-45, tarsus 1-03 ; 



* Founded on the Scindean bird, which is generally somewhat whiter, but 

 not specifically distinct. 



