THE BIRDS OF BANGKOK. 321 



Ihdiits, ,b'. This ^\'ooclpeckeI•, as weW^.^Miiyrnpiernmihrachijurns 

 hHrmanicus a\u\ Ti'ja javanensis intermedia {ride pp. 322 and 323). 

 are, 1 believe, only to be found, and tliat sparing!}-, in tiie better- 

 wooded parts of the environs of Bangkok, sucii as in tlie e.xtensive 

 areas under fniit-g.irden cultivation, in large Temple grounds (where 

 shooting cannot be indulged in), and in certain narrow belts of trees on 

 the banks of the main river and some of tlie canals. 



00. Dendrocopus pectoralis (Blyth.) The SpotfrtI-/>rpnstrd 

 Pied Woodpecker. 



Denilr(ic<ipii>: pectorHli.<. I'.lanfnrd, Frtuii. Hrit. Iiidin, Rinls, iii (18i>r)). 

 p. 41 : Williamsaii, .loiun. X. H. S. Siam, i, p. 4r)(l<)14). 



Desrriptioii. Length 178 mni. (7 in.)- Toe.s t. Forehead brown- 

 ish white. Crown, in male more or less crimson, in female black; sides 

 of face and neck white ; ear-coverts white to brownish ; a black malar 

 band on each side from the base of the lower mandible to the side of the 

 neck; nape and hind neck black, all the rest of the ni)per plumage 

 barred witli black and white : quills dark brown, with white spots on 

 ])otli webs ; tail-feathers blackish, with elongate white to fidvous 

 wiiite spots on both webs, forming incomjjlete liars ; chin and throat 

 white, breast and abdomen pale brownish, the former distinctly spotted 

 with dark brown, tlie latter indistinctly, with i)ale l)rown ; flanks 

 birred brown and v.liitish ; vent and umler tail-coverts spotted with 

 brown and tinged with reddish i)ink. 



Iris dark brown. Upper mandible blackish, base paler ; lower 

 miiidble slate colour, tip dusky, ilouth slit a colour. Ij'egs dark plum- 

 beous, soles somewhat jialer and with dull yllowish green tinge. Claws 

 dark horn-colour. 



BiKlriliatioii. So far as this country is concerned, apparently 

 onl}' recorded up to tin pivsent from Bangkok, C'cntral Siam. The 

 general distribution of tliis species is paculiar. According to Rlanford, 

 it occurs in Pegu, which is in about the same latitude as Northern 

 Siam, and in certain other parts of nurnia, but not in Tenasserim. It 

 is also found in Cochin-Ciiina, and in .lava and Sumatra, but ap- 

 parenty not in British ^Malaya — ridn Robinson, Hand-list, i'.iids Malay 

 Peninsula HOIOX p. 11. note to No. 310. 



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