of the Genus Micropteruus. 5 



reaux). Iq the British Museum are specimens from Cochin 

 China [Pierre), apparently referable to the present species. 

 According to Jerdon M. phceoceps is found in Kumaon, 

 Nepal, Sikkim, Lower Bengal, and in some of the forests 

 of Central India ; he procured it in the Bustar jungle, 

 south-east of Nagpore. Dr. Scully says the Rufous Wood- 

 pecker seems to be rather rare in the valley of Nepal. 

 Capt. Bulger obtained it on the Rungmo river, in Sikkiui, 

 in which province Jerdon states it is not common and 

 keeps to the warm valleys, from 1500 to 3000 feet elevation. 

 Mr. Gammie observed it at Monghoo, where it was found 

 breeding in ants^ nests. Mr. Cripps records it from Fur- 

 reedpore, in Eastern Bengal. In the Rajmehal Hills it has 

 been procured by Mr. Ball, who observes that it extends 

 thence to the Godaveri valley, being found in the hilly 

 region. Capt. Beavan saw it at Maunbhoom. In my cabinet 

 are examples collected by Mr. Inglis in Cachar ; these spe- 

 cimens are small ; Assam examples, on the contrary, are 

 large. Blyth gives Tipperah and Arracan as habitats of this 

 species. Mr. Eugene Gates says it is "very common on the 

 eastern slopes of the Pegu Hills from the frontier right down 

 to Rangoon, round which town it is specially abundant." 

 Mr. Hume's collection contains examples from Tenasseriui 

 as follows : — Pahpoon, Reeling, Thatoue, Wimpong, Mya ■ 

 wadee, Ko-go-Houngthraw, Kaukaryit, Houngthraw river, 

 Moulmein, Karope, Amherst, Meeta Myo, and Tavoy. In 

 the Appendix to the "Birds of Tenasserim^' ("^ Stray Fea- 

 thers,^ vi. p. 501 : 1878), Mr. Hume says, ^' We procured a 

 large additional series of this species around the base of 

 Nwalabo and in the country between this and Tavoy. All 

 of them are, on the whole, more properly referable to this 

 species, though two or three of them make a decided approach 

 to brachyurus." According to Capt. Bingham it is a fairly 

 common bii*d in the Thoungyeen jungles. Mr. Hume (Str. 

 F. 1880, p. 112) gives an isolated instance of its occurrence 

 at Klang, Salangore, in the Malay peninsula, and states that 

 the example is a typical specimen of M. phreoceps, also that 

 he has procured a large series of Micropterni north and 



