550 PICIDiK. 



Vivia nipalensis, Ilod(/s. J. A. S. Bern/, vi. p. 107 (3837) : id. Icon. 



ined. Brit. M»s. App. pi. ^5. figs. 1, 2 (No. 161 <^, 1G2 $ ). 

 ricuhis iiipalen.^^is, B/i/t/i, J. A. S. Ben;/, xli. p. ICOo (1843J ; IIod(/,t. 



ill Grai/s Zoo/. Misc. p. 85 (1844, cj")- 

 Piculu.s riififions, Ilodf/.f. in Gray's Zool. Mit^c. p. 85 (1844, $ ). 

 Yivia innoniinata, Jardine, Contr. Orn. p. -"JOO (1848-52); Bp. Consp. 



Gen. Ar. i. p. 140 (1850); Jfor.'^f. i^- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. I. Co. 



ii. p. 077 (1850) ; Jerd. B. hid. i. p 300 (1862) ; Grmj, Cat. Mamm. 



l^c. Nepal pres. Hodi/s. 1863, p. 62 ; Gould, B. A-^ia, vi. pi. xxxix. 



S,^ (1870) ; Bhjth Ly Wnld. B. Burin, p. 78 (1875) ; Brooks, Str. 



F. 1875, p. 232 ; Hume, op. cif. 1^77, p. 351 ; id. ^ Davison, op. cit. 



1878, vi. p. 148 ; Scully, torn. tit. pp. 250, 365 ; Himw, op. cit. 1879, 



p. 88 ; Salrad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 184 (1879) ; Har- 



yitt, Ibis, 1881, p. 223 ; Daviwn, Str. F. x. p. 357 (1883) ; Oates, 



B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 24 (1883) ; Sliaipe, P. Z. S.. 1887, p. 443 ; 



Hume, Str. F. x'l. p. 64 (1888). 

 Vivia nepalensis, Beichenb. Scans. Picincp, p. 342, pi. dcxviii. 



figs. 4120-4121 (1854). 

 Pipi.sciis innoniinatus, Cab. ^ Heine, Mas. Hein. Th. iv. p. 9 (1863). 



Adult male. Eack, rump, and scapulars golden olive, the upper 

 tail-coverts jellowisli white margined with olive, some of the outermost 

 being black, hut all hidden bj' the rump-feathers ; \ving-coverts brown, 

 washed on the margins with olive ; quills brown, margined exter- 

 nally with golden olive, the inner webs margined more or less at the 

 base with whitish ; shafts dark brown ; tail tj-pical ; nasal plumes 

 pale yellow tip])ed with black ; the base of the forehead olive, the 

 remainder of the sincipital feathers black margined with reddish 

 orange ; hinder part of the crown and the hind neck olive without 

 any golden tinge ; lores and side of the face white, the side of the 

 neck yellowish and spotted with blackish olive ; behind the eye a 

 broad blackish brown, or slightly olive, stripe runs backwards down 

 the side of the neck, and there is a malar stripe of the same colour 

 and barred with white ; chin and throat grading from \a bite to 

 yellowish and transversely spotted with black, the entire under- 

 parts and under tail-coverts yellow, the chest and breast covered 

 with rounded spots of black, the remainder barred with black ; 

 wing-lining yellow with a black patch near the base of the primaries ; 

 axillaries white : " bill plumbeous black ; irides brown ; feet darkish 

 plumbeous " (ScuUi/). Total length 3'3 inches, culmen 0*48, wing 

 L'-2, tail 1"2, tarsus 0*5; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*4, 

 outer posterior 0-4, inner anterior 0*27, inner posterior 0'2. 



Adult female. Wants the reddish-tipped feathers on the sinciput, 

 this being olive, but brighter than the hinder part of the crown. In 

 other respects resembles the male. Total length 3-6 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-27, tail 1-22, tarsus 0-48. 



Young. Ileserable the adult of their own sex, but have the top of 

 the head and the nape less olive and more of a duskj' brown ; the 

 underpnrts less yellow and the spots on the chest and breast more 

 heart-shaped than rounded ; the tips of the sincipital feathers in 

 the male more orange. 



Hah. Throughout the Himalayan range, and has been found as 



