410 PICIDiE. 



Picus neglectus, Wayl Syst. Av. Piciis, sp. 99 (1827). 



Picus erythrouotos, Drap. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 498 (1828). 



Picus ceylonus, Ciiv. Eegne Anim. 1829, i. p. 451. 



Picus sonneratii, Less. Traite, i. p. 221 (1831). 



Brachyptermis erythronotiis, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 31 ; Grai/, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 441 (1846); Bp. Consp. Geji. Av. i. p. 121 (1850) ; 

 id. Consp. Valuer. Zt/god. p. 10, no. 180 (1854) ; Reichenb. Scans. 

 Picina, p. 398, no. 923, pi. dcliii. fig. 4349, $ (1854) ; Graxj, List 

 Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 96 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 196, no. 8747 

 (1870). 



Brahmapicus ei'Tthronotus, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 

 1848-49, p. 345 ; id. Picida, ii. p. 90, pi. Ixix. figs. 1 J ad., 2 S 

 jiiv., 3 $ ad. (1862). 



Brachvptemus ceylonus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 56, no. 251 

 (1849) ; Layard, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, p. 449 ; Horsf. (^ 

 Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. L Co. ii. p. 656 (1856-58) ; Cab. ^- Heine, 

 3Ius. Hein. iv. p. 171 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 297 ; Holdsw. 

 P. Z. S. 1872, pp. 405, 428 ; Laijard, op. cit. 1873, p. 204 : Legge, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 15, 1875, p. 284; id. Sir. F. 1875, p. 202 ; Hume, 

 op. cit. vii. p. 369 (1878), 1879, p. 88, no. 182 bis ; Legge, B. Cey- 

 lon, p. 202, J & 2 %d. (1880) ; Parker, Ibis, 1886, p. 183. 



Picus erythronotus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 82 (1866). 



Adult male. Back and scapulars crimson, the extreme upper part 

 of the back and the hind neck black ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 brownish black, the rump-feathers tipped with dull crimson ; lesser 

 and median wing-coverts brownish black, tipped with dull crimson 

 and spotted with pinkish bufFy white, the greater series almost 

 entirely crimson ; quills brownish black, the outer webs of the 

 secondaries dull red, those of the primaries spotted with white at 

 the base, the inner webs of the quills, except the innermost of aU, 

 spotted with white ; shafts black ; tail-feathers and the shafts 

 black ; the feathers of the forehead and crown and the elongated 

 occipital feathers crimson, with black bases ; sides of the face and 

 neck black, with two buffy-white stripes, one from above the pos- 

 terior half of the eye and running down the side of the hind neck, 

 the other from the base of the upper mandible and passing under 

 and to the end of the ear-coverts ; the supercilium, loral and malar 

 regions spotted with white, the postorbital region being striped with 

 the same ; the car-coverts striped with dull white ; chin, throat, 

 and fore neck black, the feathers of the chin and throat having an 

 apical spot and the base white, those of the fore neck having a 

 central white spot ; entire under surface of the body and under 

 tail-coverts bufJy or rufeseent white, the feathers of the chest and 

 breast broadly margined with black, which sometimes coalesces in 

 the middle of the feather and forms a bar ; the feathers of the abdo- 

 men with triangular marginal spots and concealed basal bars of 

 black; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts barred with black; 

 under wing-coverts black, spotted with white or bufty white, the 

 axillaries barred black and buffy white : " iris red ; upper mandible 

 dark horn-colour, lower mandible light bluish horn-colour ; legs and 

 feet dull sap-green" {W. V. Ler/r/e). Total length 11-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-6, wing 5-45, tail 3-7, tarsus 1 ; toes (without claws) — 



