76 piciB^. 



plumes with black bristles projecting. Wing and tail rounded. 

 Toes 4. Orbits feathered. Plumage soft, lax, and elongate. 



A large genus comprising S3 species, of which all but two are 

 South American ; one inhabits China, and one is Indian. 



1001. Picunmus innominatus. The Speckled Piculet. 



Picumnus innominatus, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 154 ; Blyth, Cat. 



p. 65 ; Haryitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 549 ; Oates in Hu7nes N. Sj- E. 



2nd ed. ii, p. 316. 

 Vivia nipalensis, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. vi, p. 107 (1837). 

 Vivia innominata, Horsf. (^- M. Cut. ii, p. 677 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, 



p. 300 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 21 ; Godw.-Aust. 



J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 97; Bli/th ^ Wald. Birds Burrn. 



p. 78 ; Hume, S. F. v, p. 351 ; xi, p. 64 ; id. Cat. no. 186 ; Scully, 



>S. F. viii, p. 250 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1881, p. 223 ; id. Cat. B. M. xyiii, 



p. 549 ; Bingham, S. F. ix, p. 165 ; Inglis, ibid. p. 247 ; Davison, 



S. F. X, p. 357 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 24. 



Wi-ivij Nepal ; Dang-chim, Lepclia. 



Fig. 20. — Head of P. innominatus. 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes yellowish white, with black 

 bristles projecting ; forehead olive ; sincipital feathers black with 

 reddish-orange borders, occiput and hind neck olive ; a broad band 

 from the eye down the side of the neck blackish olive ; a malar 

 stripe the same but mixed with white ; two yellowish-white bands 

 down each side of the neck, one from above the eye, the other 

 below the eye and ear-coverts, and including the lores ; back, 

 scapulars, and rump bright yellow-olive ; ovitside of wings the 

 same, becoming duller on the coverts ; inside of quills brown ; 

 yellowish white on the inner margins ; tail blackish brown, inner 

 webs of middle pair of feathers white, each feather of the two 

 outer large pairs and the small outermost pair with a broad oblique 

 white bar close to the tip ; chin and throat white, breast and 

 abdomen pale yellow, all with large black spots ; flanks barred ; 

 wing-lining white. 



Female. The whole crown olive. 



Bill plumbeous black ; irides brown ; feet dark plumbeous 

 {Scully). 



Length about 4 ; tail 1*4 ; wing 2*3 ; tarsus •52 ; bill from 

 gape 05. 



Distrihution. Throughout the Himalayas as far west as Murree, 

 ranging from about 1500 to 6000, or even in places, according to 

 Stoliczka, 9000 feet above the sea. This species has also been 



