Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus lyngipicus. 39 



but, most unaccountably, he has figured in his ' Monograph ' a 

 plain-breasted species, or one that has at most a few markings 

 upon the sides of the breast and upon the under tail -coverts, 

 whereas Vigors, in his description, has given the underparts 

 as "whitish, broadly streaked with dusky brown/^ Malherbe's 

 bird evidently belongs to the Malabar form of /. gymnoph- 

 thalmus. Gray appears to have shared Malherbe's views, as 

 he gives in his ' Hand-list ■* Madras as the habitat of this 

 species. I find a difficulty in following Mr. Hume in uniting 

 /. hardwickii of Jerdon to P. nanus of Vigors, for the reason 

 that the latter author distinctly mentions the character of a 

 black occiput, which is not possessed by /. hardwickii of 

 Jerdon. In the British Museum are three specimens of an 

 lyngipicus from the North-west Himalayas, collected by 

 Capt. Pinwill, which agree with Vigors's description of/, nanus; 

 and I cannot see any reason to doubt that they belong to 

 that species. It is a matter of surprise that Mr. Hume, with 

 his immense collection, does not appear to have procured 

 this North-west Himalayan bird; it is closely allied to /. 

 auritus, but differs in having the underparts very broadly 

 but indistinctly streaked with dusky brown. 



E Mus. Brit. 



a. ^. Dhurmsala [Capt. Pinwill). 



b. ^ . N.W. Provinces [Capt. Pinwill). 



c. ^ . N.W. Himalayas [Capt. Pinwill). 



13. Iyxgipicus caxicapillus. 



Picus canicapillus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 197 (1845), 

 XV. p. 14 (1846), xvi. p. 467 (1847), xviii. p. 805 (1849); id. 

 Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 64 (1849) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii., App. 

 p. 21 (1849) ; Beichenb. Handb. Scansoriae, Picin. p. 373 

 (1854) ; Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 141 (1861) ; Sundev. 

 Consp. Av. Picin. p. 29 (1866) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 43 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 184. no. 8581 (1870). 



Yungipicus trisulensis, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 

 (1854, nee Licht) . 



Yungipicus canicapillus, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. 

 Co. ii. pp. 677, 992 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 279 (1862) ; 



