344 Lord \\'al{len on the lute Co/onel TickelPs 



uniform blacky and not marked with white, and by the bold 

 dark brown or black mesial stripes on the pectoral feathers. 



Picus majoroides is represented with a large white patch on 

 the middle of the back, which is not quite true to nature, the 

 nape, back, iiropygium, and upper tail-coverts in this species 

 being uniform black. 



Jn Picus mahrattensis [auro-cinstatus, Tickell, J. A. S.B. 

 1833, p. 579, ?) neither the crimson occiput of the male nor 

 the yellow occiput of the female is represented in the plate. 

 The fact that Hemicercus canente $ has the forehead creamy 

 buff, and not the male, is confirmed by the figixre given of 

 " an undoubted female " by Colonel Tickell. 



The little-known Meiglyptes jugularis is described and 

 figured from a Tenasserim example of a so-called male ; but 

 the red cheek-stripe is omitted. 



Having figured and described individuals of the Tenas- 

 serim race of Tiga shorii {T. intei'media, Blyth), Colonel 

 Tickell gives a plate and description of a distinct species of 

 the same genus, obtained in the forests on the Teesta river, 

 Sikim. Under the title of Chrysonotus biddulphi it is thus 

 described : — " Iris labelled ' hazel.' Bill and legs blackish 

 neutral. Crown, crest, and entire nape, as well as lower 

 back, silky scarlet. Forehead, ramus, and throat, and all 

 foreneck pale brown. Rest of face and neck white. A black 

 line from hinder rim of eye down across the auriculars to the 

 scarlet of nape, which it borders for a short space. Another 

 line from rictus down latero-frontal neck. Another along 

 lower edge of ramus, joining the rictal stripe at end of ramus. 

 And another branching from the last midway on ramus and 

 joining the rictal-stripe lower down neck. All breast and 

 lower parts as in shorii, but with browner edges to the fea- 

 thers ; upper parts the same, but a broad black band runs 

 across top of back and separates the scarlet and white of nape 

 and neck from the gold-yellow of upper parts. Wing 6^^-. 

 Tail 4| (beyond wing If). Bill l^. Tarsus 1. Inn. toe \^." 

 This form does not appear to have been since recognized. 



Cyanops franklini, from Mooleyit range, Tenasserim, is 

 described and figured with the superciliary stripe unspotted 

 black, the typical form. 



