150 Mr. E. Hargitt ow the Woodpeckers 



evidently a male : the slate-coloured patch on the breast^ as well 

 as the absence of the red malar stripe^ clearly distinguishes it 

 from Th.javensis, while the black rump alone would show that 

 it was not Th.feddeni. Mr. Hume (Str. F. 1879, p. 409, note) 

 corrects his former identification of the species. The con- 

 fusion which formerly existed in his mind with regard to it 

 was mainly owing to his never having seen the coloured 

 figure given by Gray. There is an obvious slip of the pen in 

 Mr. Hume^s otherwise admirable note on the subject, when 

 he states " the wings are distinctly separated so as to show 

 the centre of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and 

 these are all blackish brown, whereas in crawfardi the lower 

 back and rump are yellowish white.^^ He intended to speak 

 of Th. feddeni, which has a white rump, for he adds " this 

 alone destroys the possibility of the identity of Th. feddeni 

 and crawfurdi." 



In all probability the bird figured for Mr. Crawfurd was 

 obtained near Ava, where this gentleman was resident ; and 

 it is a matter of surprise that other examples have not fallen 

 to the guns of some of our painstaking and enterprising 

 collectors in the Burmese countries. 



5. Thuiponax iiocgsoni. 



Hemilophus hodgsoni, Jerd. Madr. Journ. ser. 1, xi. p. 215 

 (1840) ; Gray, Gen. 13. ii. p. 432 (1846) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 

 XV. p. 283 (1846); id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 55. no. 245 

 (1849); Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 131 (1850); id. Consp. 

 Volucr. Zygod. p. 7 (1854); Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, 

 p. 386. no. 895, pi. dcxlv. fig. 4308, ^ (1854) ; Gray, List 

 Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 85 (1868). 



? Picus leucogaster, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 464. 



Picus hodgsonii^ Jerd. 111. Ind. Orn. pi. v. $ (1847) ; 

 Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 9 (1866); Giebel, Thes. Orn. 

 p. 159 (1876). 



Dryopicos hodgsonii, Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, 

 p. 322. 



Dryopicus hodgsoni, Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 49, pi. xiii, 

 figs. 1-2, S ? (1861). 



