154 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Total length 15-0 inches,, culmen 1*85, wing 8-2, tail 6*0, 

 tarsus 1*25. 



Young female. In general coloration and markings resem- 

 bling the adult female, but having the black less intense and 

 the white purer ; no white stripes on the side of the neck, 

 and the white margins of the throat-feathers not so well 

 defined ; chin huffy lirown, varied with white and dusky stria- 

 tions ; outer primaries, only, margined at the tip of the 

 outer webs with whitish. 



Mr. Oates gives the soft parts of this species as follows : — 

 " Iris yellow ; eyelids lavender-brown ; legs plumbeous ; 

 claws horny grey ; bill bluish black, darkest on the upper 

 mandible and palest on the lower near the base/^ 



This bird has not a very extended range. It occurs more 

 or less plentifully from a short distance to the north of 

 Thayetmyo, eastward to Tonghoo, and southward as far as 

 the head-waters of the Thoungyeen river, and I have a spe- 

 cimen from Pitchaburee, W. Siam (C«W Bock). In the 

 south-western portion of Pegu it has been obtained as far as 

 Bassein by Mr. Blanford. Mr. Oates states that it " occurs 

 plentifully in portions of Pegu. I found it very abundant 

 near Thayetmyo and in the country lying l^etween that town 

 and the ridge of the Pegu hills. On the eastern slopes, 

 between the ridge and Tonghoo, I failed to meet with it, the 

 forests there being apparently unfitted for it. Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay, however, procured it in Tonghoo itself. I have not 

 seen it in anj^ part of Southern Pegu. It appears to be 

 common on the Arrakan hills. ^' According to Capt Feilden 

 " it is a tolerably common bird ten or fifteen miles west of 

 Thayetmyo, and about the same distance north. ^' Mr. Hume^s 

 collection contains specimens from Tenasserim from the fol- 

 lowing localities : — Kyouk-nyat, Pahpoon, Thatone, Wim- 

 pong, and Larthorgee. Mr. Davison, in his note on the 

 habitat of this species in Tenasserim (Str. F. 1876, vi. p. 134), 

 says : — " I oidy met with this species at Pahpoon and in the 

 hills to the north of that place, in the plains country between 

 the Salvveen and Sittang, and again near Myawadee. It is 

 rare, for 1 have not seen it more than a score of times from 



