196 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



of the same colour as the crowu ; malar stripe red ; wing- 

 coverts along the forearm tipped with greyish ; under wing- 

 coverts uniform huffy white. 



Adult female. Rescmbliug the male^ but wanting the red 

 malar patch. ^'^Iris brown; legs and feet dull dirty green; 

 lower mandible pale plumbeous olive ; upper mandible black ; 

 claws pale horny brown.''' [Wm. Davison.) Total length 

 7*3 inches^ culmen 0"95, wing J-'O^ tail 2*0j tarsus 0*82. 



Immature female. Differs from the immature male in the 

 absence of the red malar patchy and also in having no red 

 on the forehead and crown ; the light bai'ring on the chin 

 and throat whiter ; distinguishable from the adult female in 

 being generally lighter in colour,, also in having the chest 

 and upper breast less black and the abdomen indistinctly 

 barred. 



Nestling female. In general markings resembling the adult, 

 but altogether more dusky in colour; forehead and crown 

 grey tinged with green ; chin and throat barred with greyish 

 white, as are likewise the breast, flanks, and thighs ; the 

 stripe on the side of the neck white, with a yellow tinge; 

 chest black ; abdomen nearly uniform ; the central pair of 

 tail-feathers not full-grown, being about one inch in length, 

 and uniform in colour, as are also the next two feathers on 

 either side ; dwarf feather barred with Avhitish ; the penulti- 

 mate and next inner feather with whitish spots upon both 

 webs. The soft parts in this species are as follows : — " Legs 

 and feet dull or brownish green ; claws a little paler ; irides 

 brown ; upper mandible black ; lower mandible pale plum- 

 beous blue, in some greenish, in many the tip is dark plum- 

 beous, and the base is also, at times, a darker plumbeous." 

 {W. Davison.) 



I share the views expressed by the (then) Lord Walden 

 ('Ibis,' 1871, p. 165), and do not consider that Latham's de- 

 scription of Picas pectoralis agrees with the present s^^ecies, 

 which will therefore have to bear the title of M. tukki of 

 Lesson, this being prior to luridus of Nitzsch. The range of 

 this species is almost identical with that of M. grammithorax. 

 Mr, Hume says it is rare in Tenasserim, and, according to 



