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met with in thick jungle or on bamboos. The nest has not been 

 observed. 



I cannot separate from the present species /. immilus, which is 

 said to be distinguished by smaller size and by having the four 

 middle tail-feathers without spots. Many specimens of /. cani- 

 cajiillus have unspotted or almost unspotted median rectrices, and 

 I find that the wings of seven specimens in the British Museum, 

 marked as adults of /. pumilus, from Pegu and Tenasserim, 

 measure fi'om 3 to 3-15 inches, which is well within the limits of 

 variation for /. canicapillus, as may be seen by Hume's measiu"e- 

 ments (S. F. vi, p. 126). 



976. lyngipicus hardwickii. The Indian Plgm)/ Woodpecler. 



Pious (Dendrocopus) hardwickii, Jenlon, Madr. Jour, L. S. xiii. 



pt. 2, p. 138 (1844). 

 Pious cinereigula, Malh. Itev. et Mmj. Zool. 1849, p. 531. 

 Pious variegatus, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 64 (nee JVar/ler). 

 Yungipicus hardwickii, Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 278 ; id. IJns, 1872, p. 8 ; 



Blanf. J. A. S. B. xxxviii, pt. 2, p. 168; McMaster, J. A. S. B. 



xl, pt. 2, p. 209 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 458 ; iv, p. 36 ; Fairbank, 



S. F. iv, pp. 255, 265. 

 Yungipicus nanus, apitd Ball, S. F. ii, p. 390; vii, p. 205 ; Hume, 



S. F. iii, p. 60 ; id. Cat. no. 164 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 52 ; Butler, 



ib. p. 385 ; Davidson, S. F. x, p. 297 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 113 ; 



Littledale, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. i, p. 197 (nee Viyors). 

 lyngipicus nanus, Beid, S. F. x, p. 24. 

 lyngipicus hardwickii, Haryitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 45 ; id. Cat. B. M. 



xviii, p. 328 ; Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 306. 

 The Southern Pigmy Woodpecker, Jerdon; Chitt.a siruti 2Mchi, Teh 



Fig. 13. — Head of /. hardwickii. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and crown light umber-brown, 

 nape darker ; no dark border at the side of the crown but a narrow 

 scarlet streak on each side of the occiput ; lores and some of the 

 nasal plumes brownish white ; a white stripe from above the eye to 

 the side of the neck ; a broad umber-brown band from the eye over 

 the ear-coverts, and a second white stripe beneath the brown 

 band ; upper parts from nape dark brown with white cross-bands, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts mostly w^hite ; quills, greater and 



