34 PICIDiE. 



6*. Abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 red ; crown always black ; occi- 

 put red in males only D. cabanisi, p. 35. 



b^. Scapulars white D. sindianus, p. 36. 



b". Lower parts striated ; occiput red in c? , 

 black in $ . 

 c^. Larger, wing 5 ; no red gorget .... D. darjilensis, p. 37. 

 d^. Smaller, wing 4 ; no red gorget . . D. cathpharius, p. 37. 

 e^. Smaller, wing 4 ; a red gorget .... U. pyrrhothorax, p. 38.. 

 b' . Back transversely barred with white, 

 c". Crown and occiput crimson in cf? 

 black in $ . 

 /^. Throat and fore neck uniform ; breast 



spotted D. onacii, p. 30. 



g^. All lower parts except chin striated D. atratns, p. 40. 

 d". Crown umber-brown in both sexes ; 

 occiput crimson and yellow in J, 



dull yellow in $ J). awice^JS, p. 40. 



b. All tail-feathers parti-coloured black and 

 white, 

 c'. Small spots on breast. 



e". Crown red D. pectoralis c? , P- 41, 



f . Crown black D. pectoralis 5 , p. 41. 



d'. Spots on breast broader than white spaces 

 between. 



g" . Crown and occiput red D. andammmtsis S , p. 42. 



h". Crown and occiput brown D.andamanensis^,^.4:2^ 



961. Dendrocopus himalayensis. The Western Himalayan 

 Fled Woodpeclter. 



Picus himalayensis, Jard. 8i Selby, III. Orn. iii, pi. cxvi (c. 1835) ; 



Sume, Cat. no. 154 ; Wardl. Rams. Ibis, 1880, p. 50 ; Biddulph, 



Ibis, 1881, p. 48 ; id. S. F. ix, p. 313 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 429 ; 



id. S. F. X, p. 101 ; C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 410. 

 Picus himalayanus. Gray, Gen. B. ii, p. 435 (1845) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



xvi, p. 466 ; id. Cat. p. 62 ; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. ii, p. 670 ; Adams, 



P. Z. S. 1858, p. 475, partim ; 1859, p. 173 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 269 ; 



Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 20; Cock ^ Marsh. S. F. i, 



p. 350 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 412 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. G ; 



Hume ^ Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 179 ; Brooks, S. F. iii, p. 232 ; 



Wardl. Bams. Ibis, 1879, p. 447. 

 Dendrocopus himalayensis, Hargiit, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 220 ; Oates 



in Humes N. ^ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 301 ; Sharpe, Yark. Miss., Aves, 



p. 110. 

 The Himalayan Pied Woodpecker', Jerdon ; Turkdn, Chamba. 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes black, white at base ; forehead 

 brownish white ; crown and occiput crimson, the feathers dark 

 grey at the base, then black and tipped with red ; lores, a narrow 

 supercihuui, and the sides of the face and neck white, often ful- 

 vescent, and the ear-coverts in part black ; a black band from the 

 lower mandible down each side of the neck, joined to the nape by 

 a cross black baud behind the ear-coverts ; hind neck, back, sca- 

 pulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts glossy black ; wings and most 

 of the wing-coverts black, the innermost median and greater 



