of the Genus Heraicercus. 257 



pong, Kaukaryit, Hongthraw river, Khyin, Meetan, Amherst, 

 Zadee, Meeta Myo, Zadawoon, Tenasserim Town, Laynah, 

 Pakchan, Bankasoon. Mr. Darling obtained this species at 

 Kussoom, about 120 miles south of the southernmost point 

 of Tenasserim ; this would appear to be the extent of its 

 range in that direction, as far as is known to us. 



4. Hemicercus cordatus. 



Hemicercus cordatus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 211 (1840) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1845) ; Jerd. 111. Ind. Orn. pi. xl. 

 (1847); Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 129 (1850); Heichenb. 

 Handb. Scans. Piciuce, p. 401, pi. dclvi. figs. 4368, 4369, 

 (^ ? ad. (1854) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 175 (1863) ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1866, pp. 249, 254 ; Gray, ListPicid. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 71 (1868); id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 191, no. 8669 (1870); 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 169; Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 389; 

 Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. xviii. figs. ^ ? ad. (1876) ; Davidson 

 & Wenden, Str. F. 1878, vii. p. 95 ; Butler, op. cit. 1880, 

 p. 385; Davidson, op. cit. 1883, p. 354.1 



Hemicercus canente (pt.), Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 

 E.I. Co. ii. p. 650 (1856-58). 



Micropicus canente (pt.), Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 190, 

 pi. xlii. figs. 1, 2 (1861). 



Hemicercus canente (non Less.), Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 280 

 (1862); Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 401 (1882). 



Picus canente, var, occidentalis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. 

 p. 11 (1866). 



Picus cordatus, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 151 (1876). 



Hemicirens canente, ?lapsu, Butler, Str. F. 1877, p. 503. 



Adult male. Back and scapularies black, with a broad yel- 

 lowish-white stripe extending from the base of the hind neck 

 to the middle of the back; rump buffy white tinged with 

 yellow, a few of the outer feathers tipped with black ; outer 

 wing-coverts black, narrowly margined at the tip with buffy 

 white ; a conspicuous patch of pale buff", tinged with yellow, 

 covering nearly the whole of the forearm, crossing the wing 

 longitudinally, and comprising the inner half of all the 

 coverts, the median and greater series having a large heart- 



