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Habits, Si'c. This species is chiefly found in tamarisk scrub, 

 which abounds in 8ind and the ueiglibouring countries. It breeds 

 in holes in tamarisk aud babul {Acacia arahica) trees in March 

 and April. 



964. Dendrocopns darjilensis. The Darjeeling Pied Woodjiecker. 



Deiidrocopus luaj oroides, IIocUjs. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844 ;, 



descr. nulla). 

 Pious (Deudrojopus) darjellensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 19& 



(J84o). 

 Picas darjellensia, Blijth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 466; id. Cat. p. 62. 

 Picus majoroides, Grai, Cut. Mamm. Sfc. Coll. Ilodgs. pp. 115, 155 



(1846) ; Uorsf. 8f M. Cat. ii, p. 671 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 270 ; id. 



Ibis,^ 1872, p. 7 ; Buh/er, Ibis, 1869, p. 156 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xxxi.Y, pt. 2, p. 97 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 244 ; Hume, Cat. no. 155. 

 Dendrocopns daijilensls, Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 221. 



The DarjeeliiHf Black Woodpecker, Jerdon; 8adye7'-mony-prek,lje^c\m^ 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes black ; forehead, lores, narrow 

 supercilium, and sides of face, including the ear-coverts, whity 

 brown ; sides of neck behind the ear-coverts the same, washed with 

 orange or golden yellow ; crown and upper surface generally 

 glossy black, except the occiput aud nape which are light crimson, 

 and the innermost mediau and greater wing-coverts which are 

 mostly or wholly white ; wing-feathers black with white spots on 

 both webs; tail-feathers black, the median two pairs uniform, the 

 others more or less barred with fulvous white ; chin whitish, ends 

 of bristles black, throat light brown uustriped ; breast and abdomen 

 yellowish fulvous, with longitudinal black streaks, becoming bars- 

 on the flanks ; vent and under tail-coverts light crimson. 



In ine female the occiput and nape are black instead of red. In 

 a young male, described by Scully, all the feathers of the crown 

 were tipped with dull crimson. 



Upper mandible slaty black, lower grey horny ; orbital skin 

 plumbeous; irides reddish brown to deep crimson; feet dingy 

 green {Sculli/). 



Length 9-5 ; tail 3-75 ; wing 5 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from gape 1-5. 



Distrihution. Himalayas in Nepal and Sikhim, from about 3000 

 to 12,000 feet elevation, and eastward to Moupin and Western Se- 

 chuan. This Woodpecker was also obtained in the North Cachar 

 and Anghami Naga hills by Godwin-Austen. 



Habits, L^c. The breeding does not appear to have been recorded. 

 This species was observed by Scully on moss-covered oaks, usually 

 singly or in pairs high up on the trees. 



965. Dendrocopus cathpliarius. The Lesser Pied Woodpeclcer. 



Picus (Dendrocopus) cathpharius, Hodqs., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, 



p. 1006 (18-1:^). 



Picus cath])harius, Blyth, Cat. p. 63 ; Horsf. S,- M. Cat. il. p. 673. 



