40 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus lyngipicus. 



Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 163 ; Hume, Str. F. 1871, p. 471 ; Blyth 

 & Wald. B. Burm. p. 78 (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, pp. 14, 

 59; Armstrong, Str. F. 1876, p. 309; Hume, op. cit. 1877, 

 pp. 25, 113 ; Hume & Davison, op. cit. 1878, p. 125 ; id. t. cit. 

 App. p. 500 ; Hume, op. cit. 1879, p. 87. 



Bceopipo caniccqyilla, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. 

 p. 58 (1863). 



Picus, sp., Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 413. 

 /. pileo cinereo, nigro circumcincto ; regione parotica um- 

 brina ; fascia mystacali fusca vix indicata ; supracauda- 

 libus albis, nigro fasciatis vel variegatis; rcctricibus 

 4 ceutralibus nigris albo maculatis. 



Hub. In regione Indo-Burmanica per peuinsulam Maiaya- 

 nam usque ad Sumatram septentrionalem. 



The types of this species were from Arracan (As. Soc. 

 Beng.). According to Mr. Gates it is universally distributed 

 between Thayetmyo and Tongboo, in British Burma ; but 

 still it is not very common ; it creeps about the smaller 

 branches of trees. Mr. J. Armstrong records it from the 

 Eangoon district of the Irrawaddy delta; and Mr. Inglis has 

 obtained specimens from North-eastern Cachar (Str. F. v. 

 p. 25). Messrs. Hume and Davison state that it is gene- 

 rally distributed throughout the Tenasserim province at an 

 elevation not exceeding 5000 feet ; and it extends quite to the 

 south of the Malayan peninsula^ Mr. Davison having shot it 

 in Johore and seen it in Singapore. Other localities from 

 which this species has been obtained vrill be seen by refer- 

 ence to the list of specimens examined. In Mr. Hume's 

 review of the genus lyngipicus (Str. F. 1875, p. 60), he states 

 that this species occiu's throughout Eastern Bengal, Assam, 

 Pegu, Tenasserim, the Malay peninsula, and North-west 

 Sumatra. Amongst those which I have examined I have 

 never yet seen it from the latter island ; but it is very pro- 

 bable that it does occur there. In this species there is a 

 great tendency to variety in the spotting of the tail-feathers, 

 in Tenasserim the birds frequently having the four central 

 feathers uniform or with only one spot of white. Captain 

 Feilden has already noted two races of this species ; and these 



