of the Genus Thriponux. 143 



This species appears to be confined to the Andaman Islands. 

 Colonel Tytler^ in his notes made at Port Blair (Beavan, Ibis^ 

 1867, p. 320), obser\'es, "This noble Woodpecker is not 

 uncommon on the mainland; I have had several shot and 

 sent to me." Mr. V. Ball also procured it in the same 

 islands ; and Mr. Hume {' Stray Feathers/ 1874, p. 189) says 

 "this species appears to be tolerably common throughout 

 the Andaman group ; the total length, taken from the fresh 

 bird, is from 14"o to 1. 5*7.5 in.^" I have in my collection 

 specimens from Port Blair iWimherley), also one from Mt. 

 Harriet, S. Andamans {IV. Davison). 



2. Thripoxax pectokalis. 



Thriponux pectoralis, T^veedd. P. Z. S. 1878, pp 340, 379 ; 

 Ptamsay, Tweedd. Mem. p. 596, & App. pp. 655, 670 (1881). 



Adult male (type of species) . Back, wings, and tail, also 

 their coverts, black, the extreme base of the inner webs of 

 the quills white ; shafts of quills and of tail-feathers black, 

 those of the latter brown at the base ; a concealed patch of 

 white on the rump, the feathers being tipped with black, and 

 having a marginal spot of white on each web, these feathers 

 being hidden by the elongated ones of the lower back ; nasal 

 plumes black, the extreme base buify white ; forehead, crown, 

 occipital and nuchal crest, and also the malar patch, scarlet, 

 the bases of the feathers of the forehead and crown being 

 dusky, and the bases of the crest-feathers creamy white ; 

 hind neck black, a few of the feathers haWng red tips; lores 

 and orbital region black ; sides of the face and neck, chin, 

 throat, and fore neck white, each feather having a black cen- 

 tral stripe, this being broader on the feathers of the neck ; a 

 few of the feathers of the throat and fore neck having the 

 extreme tip tinged with red ; chest, breast, and under surface 

 of the body clear pale buff, with a slight tinge of yellow, the 

 feathers of the chest having their bases and centres black 

 and partly concealed, those of the upper breast having a par- 

 tially hidden broad black central patch on their basal portion, 

 on the lower feathers the black being reduced to a small 

 longitudinal spot in the centre and quite concealed; thigh- 



