8 Mr. E. Hargitt on the IP'oodpeckers 



pi. dclviii. figs. 4375, 4376, ? S (1854) ; Jcrd. B. Ind. i. 



p. 294 (1862); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 297; Hume, Str. F. 



1873, p. 434; Blanf. Ibis, 1874, p. 92; Legge, Str. F. 1875, 



p. 201 ; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 283 ; Fairbank, Str. F. 1876, 



pp. 255, 265 ; Hume, op. cit. 1877, pp. 480, 481 ; id. op. cit. 



1879, p. 88; Legge, B. Ceyl. p. 200 (1880); Butl. Cat. B. S. 



Bomb. Presid. p. 24 (1880) ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 53 ; 



Butl. t. c. p. 386 ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 403 (1882) ; 



Davison, Str. F. x. p. 356 (1883). 



Phaiopicos jerdoni, Malh. N. Classif. Mem. Acad. Metz, 



1848-49, p. 338; id. Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 535. 



Me'ujlyptes gularis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 22 (1849) ; 



Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 113 (1850) ; Gray, List Picid. 



Brit. Mus. p. 125 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 203. no. 8811 



(1870?;. 



Micropternus phaioceps (non Blyth), Layard, Ann. & Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. p. 450 (1854). 



Phaiopicus jerdoni, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 3, pi. xlvii. 



figs. 1, 2, 3 (1862). 



Picus giduris (non Wagl.), pt.^ Sundev. Cousp. Av. Picin. 



p. 89 (1866); Giebel, Tlies. Orn. p. 157 (1876). 



Adult mcde. Entire plumage bright rufous, the top of the 

 head and the throat darker; the back and scapularies faintly 



barred with blackish ; wing-coverts barred and spotted with 



black ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills barred with 

 black, the barring broader on the inner webs of the quills, 

 the tips of the outermost being black and the shafts reddish 

 brown ; rump with almost obsolete dusky barring ; upper 

 tail-coverts narrowly barred with black ; tail also very nar- 

 rowly barred with the same, the bars being about one third 

 the width of the intervening rufous space ; tips of central 

 feathers black ; tail-shafts brown ; nasal plumes, forehead, 

 and crown dusky brown, the feathers with rather lighter and 

 more rufous margins; lores and sides of the face slightly 

 lighter tban the crown, the feathers of the loral region and 

 cheeks edged with brighter rufous ; a large crimson patch 

 under the eye ; the feathers of the chin and throat having a 

 transverse and somewhat heart-shaped dusky-brown spot at 



