to ' The Birds of India.' 7 



155. PiCUS MAJOROIDES. 



Extends into the hills of Assam, North Cachar, &c., and also 

 into China. 



157. PiCUS MACEI. 



I omitted to state that the male bird has the top of the head 

 red, or mixed red and black. 



157 his. Picus WESTERMANi, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 163. 



Mr. Blyth detected a Woodpecker in the Amsterdam Museum, 

 from the Himalayas, " like macei, but larger, with the median 

 six rectrices black as in atratus; wing 4*625 in." This bore the 

 name of P. wagleri, Hartl., which Malherbe assigns as a syno- 

 nym of macei, and gives the same name to a Brazilian species ; 

 so Biyth has named this bird as above. 



158. Picus scindtanus. 



This Woodpecker should come after 156, the upper plumage 

 not being banded with white. I procured it in low jungles in 

 the Punjab, near Jhelum, Shahpoor, &c. Dimensions of a freshly 

 killed one: — Length 8 inches, wing 4|, extent 15, tail 3^, bill 

 (front) 1, foot ll. Mr. Hume, to whom I sent a notice of its 

 occurrence in the Salt range, has since procured it in the same 

 localities. 



159. Picus brunnifrons. 



Occasionally the third outer pair of tail-feathers has from two 

 to four spots of white also, and there is generally a streak of 

 light brown below the eye. 



Picus pectoralis, Blyth, noted on p. 275 as without a precise 

 habitat, turns out to be synonymous with P. analis, Horsf., from 

 Java. 



161. Hypopicus hyperythrus. 



Wings black, white-spotted; shoulder unspotted; tail black, 

 the two outermost feathers on each side with white bars on the 

 tip only. Lower mandible pale yellow. Extent of wing of one 

 15|, wing 5^. 



A very closely allied species is P. poliopsis, Swinhoe, from 

 China. 



