42. THEIPOXAX.' 503 



5. Thriponax hodgsoni. 



Hemilophus hodgsoni, Jerd. Madr. Journ. ser. 1, xi. p. 215 (1840) ; 



Graij, Gen. B. ii. p. 432 (1846) ; Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xy. p. 283 



(1840) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 55; no. 245 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. 



Gen. Av. i. p. 131 (1850); id. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 7 (1854) ; 



Reichenb. Scans. Bicina, p. 386, no. 895, pi. dcxlv. tig. 4308, J 



(1854) ; Gray, List Bicid. Brit. Mus. p. 85 (1868). 

 ? Picus leucogaster, Blyt^, J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 464. 

 Picus hodgsouii, Jerd. III. Ind. Orn. pi. v. S (1847) ; Stindev. Consp. 



Av. Picin. p. 9 (1866). 

 Dryopicos bodgsonii, MalTi. Mem. Acad. Met::, 1848-49, p. 322. 

 Dryopicus hodgsoni, Malh. Bicidce, i. p. 49, pi. xiii. figs. 1, 2, c? 5 



(1861). 

 Mulleripicus hodgsoni, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 284 (1862). 

 Thriponax hodgsoni, Cub. c^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 105 (1863) ; 



Hume, Str. F. ] 876, p. 390, 1879, p. 87 ; Butler, op. cit. 1880, 



p. 386 ; id. Cat. Birds Bomb. Pres. p. 23 (1880) ; Davison, Str. F. 



1883, X. p. 355 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1885, p. 150. 

 Campethera hodgsonii, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 193, no. 8708 (1870). 



Adult male. Plumage black, -with the folio-wing exceptions: — the 

 rump Tvhite ; breast and upper part of abdomen, as -well as the 

 sides of the body, buft'y white ; the feathers of the lower part of the 

 abdomen margined at the tip with bnffy white ; forehead, crown, 

 occipital and nuchal crest, likewise the malar stripe, crimson, the 

 bases of the feathers of the occiput and nape creamy white ; a few 

 white streaks behind the ear-coverts ; primaries with a concealed 

 white spot at the base, the secondaries having their basal portion 

 white for an inch or an inch and a half, at most, of their length ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries buffy white ; shafts of quills and 

 of tail-feathers black : " bill black ; legs dark plumbeous : irides 

 crimson " (Jerdon). Total length 18 inches, culmen 2-6, wing 8-7, 

 tail 7"2, tarsus 1"42 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 1, outer 

 posterior 0'8, inner anterior 0-8, inner posterior 0*5. 



Adult femcde. Diifers from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the forehead, crown, and malar region, the occipital and nuchal 

 feathers alone being crimson. Total length 17'5 inches, culmen 

 2*35, wing 8-55, tail 0-7, tarsus 1*35. 



Hab. Southern India, extending as far north as Belgaum. 



a. 2 ad. sk. S. India. Zool. Soc. 



b, c. S 2 '^d. sk. Mynall, Travancore, Dec. 8, Hume Coll. 



1874 (F. Bourdillon). 



d. 9 ad. sk. Mvnall, Travancore, Nov. 26, F. Bourdillon, Esq. 



"1879. [C.l. 



e. cJ ad. sk. Madras. Sir \V. Elliott [P.]. 



f. g. $ imm. sk. "Wynaad. Hume Coll. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Khandeish. Tweeddale Coll. 



