152 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



probably a more northern race of Th. hodgsoni. Dr. Jerdon, 

 writing on this species (Birds of India^ i. p. 285), says : — '^Tliis 

 splendid Woodpecker has only been fonud in the most dense 

 and lofty forests of the Malabar coast, both above and below 

 the Ghats. I have seen it myself, though rarely, at the foot 

 of the Peria Pass^ in the Wynaad, in Coorg, and at the top 

 of the Ghats near Garsoppa.^' Capt. Butler in his " Cata- 

 logue of the Birds of the Deccan and South Mahratta 

 Country'' (Str. F. 1880, p. 386), remarks :— ''Rare; Mr. Laird 

 obtained specimens in North Kanara and also in the forests 

 west of Belgaum. I have no other record of its occur- 

 rence throughout the region.'' Mr. Davison (Str. F. 1883, 

 p. 355) observes : — " This fine species is not uncommon in the 

 Wynaad, where the country is well wooded, but it is so shy 

 that it is difficult to procure specimens. It is usually found 

 in pairs. Asa rule, the bird keeps in the evergreen forests ; 

 once I shot a specimen in some bamboo-jungle at Goodalore. 

 It does not ascend the slopes of the hills to any height." 

 Mr. Bourdillon obtained it in Travancore, where it would 

 appear to be not rare ; and this gentleman says : — " In tiie 

 neighbourhood of large undisturbed tracts of forest this bird 

 is fairly common and not very shy, but it soon leaves districts 

 when the forest is being cleared to any extent. I have seen 

 this bird at from 600 to 3000 feet elevation." Although by no 

 means so common in collections as some of the other species 

 comprised in the present genUvS, Th. hodgsoni is so well 

 known as not to call for any special remarks. 



6. Thriponax feddeni. 



Mulleripicus feddeni, Blanf. J. A. S. B. 1863, p. 75 ; Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 163. 



Thriponax jerdoni, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 105 

 (1863). 



Picus jerdoni (ex Cab. & Heine), Sundev. Cousp. Av. Picin. 

 p. 9(1866) ; Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 161 (1876). 



Hem'ilophus feddeni, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 86 

 (1868). 



Thriponax feddeni, Wald. Ibis, 1871, p. 161; Bingham, 



