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ITNGIPICUS. 4.") 



973. lyngipicus semicoronatus. Tlie Darjeeling Pigmy 

 I Voodpechtr. 



Picus semicoronatus, Malherbe, Bull. Soc. d^Mist. Nat. Moselle, v, 

 p. 21 (1848) ; id. Picidce, i, p. 148, pi. xxxiv, fi<?. 8. 



Picus rubricatus, Blytk, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 804 f 1849) ; id. Cat. 

 p. 63. 



Picus meniscus, Malh. Picidce, i, p. 151, pi. xxxv, %s. 2, 3, 4 (1861). 



Yungipicus rubricatus, Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 276 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 

 xxxix, pt. 2, p. 97 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 8 ; Hume, &'. F. iii, p. 60 : 

 id. Cat. no. 162 ; Anderson, Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 585. 



lyngipicus semicoronatus, Hnrf/itt, Ibis, 1882, p. 25 ; id. Cat. B. M. 

 xviii, p. 312 ; Hume, >S. F. xi, p. 59. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and crowu ashy with a brownish 

 tinge, occiput scarlet (feathers .sHghtly elongated) ; nasal plumes 

 and lores fulvescent white ; broad superciliary stripe extendin"- 

 back to the side of the neck white, speckled with black, a black 

 line forming a border to the crown above the supercilium, and a 

 brown band, becoming black behind, from the eye to the side of 

 the neck over the lower ear-coverts ; nape and upper back and 

 the upper tail-coverts velvety black ; remainder of back, rump, 

 scapulars, and wings black with white transverse bars ; quills with 

 white spots on both webs, greater and median coverts with white 

 spots or bars, smaller coverts unspotted ; the two middle pairs of 

 tail-feathers black throughout as a rule, the two outer large pairs 

 black barred with white above and with fulvescent below, third 

 pair from the middle varying but generally bordered with white ; 

 malar region dusky, chin and throat whitish ; under surface from 

 throat very light fulvescent brown, with narrow blackish longitu- 

 dinal streaks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries mixed white and 

 black. 



The female has no occipital red band. 



Occasionally there are white markings on the upper tail-coverts 

 and small white spots on the median tail-feathers, but this is 

 exceptional. The same occurs in other species of lyngipicus, in 

 which the feathers mentioned are normally black throughout. 

 Bill plumbeous ; irides red ; feet brown {Jerdon). 

 Length 5*5 ; tail 2 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus -6; bill from gape 'OS. 

 Distribution. Sikhim, Bhutan, the Ivhasi and Naga hills. Eastern 

 Manipur, and Yunnan at elevations above about 3500 feet. 



974. lyngipicus pygmaeus. The Himalayan Pigmy Woodpecl-er. 



Picus pygmaeus. Vigors, P.Z.S. 1831, p. 44; Blijth, J. A. S. B. 



xiv, p. 197 (partim) ; id. Cat. p. 63. 

 Picus mitchellii, Malh. Rev. May. Zool. 1849, p. 530, 

 Yungipicus pygmagus, Horsf. Sf M. Cat. p. 676 ; Jerdon, B, I. i, 



p. 277 ; Hu7ne, S. F. iii, p. 60 ; id. Cat. no. 163 ; Scully, S. F. 



viii, p. 247. 

 lyngipicus pygmaeus, Haryitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 30; id. Cat. B. M. 



xviii, p. 315 ; Oates in Hwne's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 306. 



