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and iu many females it perhaps remains permanently black, 

 while in others it changes sooner or later to red. This I have 

 witnessed in a caged specimen, besides having repeatedly 

 obtained them with the bill in every stage of progress iu 

 changing from black to red. The name P. ponticerianus is 

 founded on error, as the species does not inhabit the Indian 

 Peninsula, I am tolerably well acquainted with it, having 

 spent a month in forests where, together with P. rosa, it is 

 most numerous, and where a few of them occasionally con- 

 tributed to our fare in the shape of a stew. 



157. PiCUS MACII. 



This, with others, appertains to the division Dendrotypes, 

 Cabanis, the rest being P. analis, Horsf. (P. pectoralis, nobis), 

 from Java, P. atr-atus, nobis (J. A. S, B. xviii. 80;i, xxviii. 412), 

 from the higher Tenasserim mountains, P. andam,anensis, nobis 

 (J. A. S. B. xxviii. 412), from the Andaman Islands and also 

 Sumatra, D. nesiotes, Cab. & Heine, from Formosa, and (in my 

 opinion) P. brunneifrons, Vigors, from the Himalaya. There 

 must surely be a mistake about P. macii occurring iu Ceylon ! 



158. PiCUS SCINDIANUS. 



This, with P. medius and P. syriacus, if not also P. khan (Ibis, 

 1864, p. 400), forms the division Dendrocoptes, Cabanis. 



160. PiCUS MAHRATTENSIS. 



This, with the slightly differing P. blanfordi, nobis (J. A. S. B. 

 xxxii. 75), from Upper Pegu, constitutes the division Liopopo, 

 Cabanis. 



164. YUNGIPICUS HARDWIGKII. 



Mr. Wallace obtained the true Y. moluccensis in Lombok; 

 and Dr. Jerdon's supposed moluccensis from the ludo-Malayan 

 province will now stand as Y. sondaicus, Wallace. 



165. Hemicercus cordatus. 



Constantly smaller than H. canente of the Indo-Chinese 

 countries. Dr. Jerdon's "pretty little H. concretus" divides 

 into H. concretus of Java, H. sordidus [H. hai'tlauhi, Malherbe), 

 of the Malayan Peninsula, and H. coccometopus, Reich., of 

 Borneo. 



