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•onrason, but a female in Col. Godwin-Austen's possession from the 

 same locality as the types has the occiput black as in D. cathpharius. 



There appears to be a passage from true catlipliarius into the 

 present form, some specimens of the former from Sikhim and 

 Bhutan having a considerable amount of red on the breast. 



Bill leaden dusky, paler at base of lower mandible ; irides lac- 

 red ; legs and feet dull sap-green in the male, dusky lavender in 

 the female (Nume). 



Size rather less than that of B. catlipliarius. Length 6'8 ; 

 tail 2-6 ; wing 3*8 ; tarsus 'Go ; bill from gape '8. 



Distribution. Mr. Hume obtained two specimens (the types) at 

 xiimole, in the Eastern Manipur hills. Col. Godwin-Austen also 

 obtained a specimen at Aimole and two others in the Anghdmi 

 Naga hills. Xo others are known to me. 



967. Dendrocopus macii. The Fulvous-hreasted Pied Woodpecker. 



Picus niacei, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi, p. SO (1818) ; Gray, 



in Hardw. III. Ind. Znol. i, pi. xxxii ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 196 ; 



id. Cat. p. 02 ; Karsf. 4" M. Cat. ii, p. 672 ; Jerdon, B. 1. i, p. 272; 



id. Ibis, 1872, p. 7: Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. .'354; Layard, Ibis, 1868, 



p. 249; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 97; xlv, p. 70; 



xlvii, p. 22 ; Blanf. J.A.S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. loo ; Cock ^ C. H. T. 



Marsh. S. F. i, p. 350 ; Hume S( Dav. S. F. vi, p. 123 ; Cripps, S. F. 



vii, p. 261 ; Hume, Cat. no. 157 ; Scully, S.F. viii, p. 245; Inqlis, 



S. F. ix, p. 247 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 57'; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 3.3". 

 Picus westermani, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 163-; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 411 ; 



id. Cat. no. ? 157 quint. 

 Dendrotypes macei, Blyth ^ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 77. 

 Dendrocopus macii, Harqitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 260 ; Oates in Hume's 



i\^. i^-^. 2nded. ii, p.'30.3. 



The Indian Spotted Woodpecker, Jerdon. 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes black towards the tips ; narx'ow 

 forehead brownish buif ; crown and occiput crimson; sides of 

 head and neck, including lores, supercilia, and ear-coverts, brownish 

 white ; a black stripe from the lower mandible to each side of the 

 neck not joined to the black of the dorsal region ; hind neck, 

 upper back, and upper tail-coverts uniform black ; remainder of 

 upper parts barred black and white ; wings and their coverts 

 black ; median and greater coverts and qnills with white spots, 

 the latter on both webs ; tail black, the two outer pairs of large 

 feathers barred with huffy white, and sometimes a few white spots 

 on the next pair ; chin, throat, and fore neck uniform light rufous 

 brown ; breast and abdomen isabelline, with black longitudinal 

 spots on the breast, faint stria? on the abdomen, and bars on the 

 flanks ; vent and lower tail-coverts bright crimson ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, the former barred or spotted with 

 black. 



In the female the crown and occiput are black. 



Bill dusky plumbeous, reddish beneath : irides brown ; feet 

 plumbeous (Jerdon). 



