32 picid.t:. 



Length 10-5 ; tail 3-9 ; wing 5-2 : tarsus 1 ; bill from gape 1-2. 



Distribution. Common in the P(^gii hills between Thayet Myo 

 and Toungngoo, also tbroughout Tenasserim. The most southern 

 locality recorded is Kussoom, a litth* north of Junk Ceylon. 



Habits, i^c. This Woodpecker inhabits both deciduous and ever- 

 green forest, but is chiefly found on and amongst bamboos. 

 According to Davison it occui's singly or in jxairs, never in parties. 



Genus HYPOPICUS. Bonap., 1854. 



Bill slender, compressed, truncated : culmen straight, angulate ; 

 nasal ridge strougly nuirked, but lo^v down near the commissure 

 and not extending more than halfway along the bill; nostrils 

 basal, nasal plumes short ; gonys long, chin -angle near to 

 the gape, much concealed by bristles ; fourth (outer posterior) toe 

 slightly longer than third (outer anterior). Head scarcely crested. 

 Outer pair of tail-feathers shorter than coverts. Plumage soft, 

 black and white above, chestnut below ; crown of head red in 

 males, black spotted with white in females. 



Only two species are known, one inhabits the Himalayas, the 

 other Northern China. 



960. Hypopicus hyperythrus. The Evfous-beWwd Pied 

 Woodpecker. 



Picus hyperythrus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 23 ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. 

 xiv, p' 19« ; id. Cat. p. 63 : Blanford, J. A. S. B. xh, pt. 2, p. 43. 



Hypopicus hyperj'thrus. Bona}}. Conq). Vvlucr. Zy<jod. p. 8 ; Horsf. i^- 

 M. Cat. ii, p. 675 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 276 : id. Ibis, 1872, p. 7 ; 

 Godio.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 155 ; Hume, Cat. no. 161 : 

 id. iS. F. xi, p. 59; Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 199; Oates in 

 Hume's Is. 4'" E. 2iid ed. ii. p. .'501 : Sharpe, Yark. Miss., Aves, 

 p. 109. 



Fig. 11.— Head of//, hi/ijcrythrus, §. 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes black, white at the base : base 

 of forehead, sides of face, and chin grey (mixed black and white) : 

 lores, a stripe below the eye and a spot above and behind the eye 

 pure white ; crown and nape crimson ; upper plumage from neck 

 to rump broadly barred black and ^\hite ; quills black, spotted 

 on both webs and tipped with white, inner webs of primaries 

 unspotted near the tips ; four middle tail-feathers black, the next 



