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]>escriiiiwa. J>engtli about 290 luin. (1 l.l in.). Toei o. Crown 

 and occipital crest red in tlie male, black, with elongate sub-terminal 

 spots on each feather, in the female ; sides of head and neck white, 

 except a broad black band from the eye to the nape, and another, some- 

 times mi.xed with white, from tlid malar region to the shoulder; hind 

 neck and top of back black ; back, scapulars and wing-coverts golden 

 ulive, often W'illi orange or scarlet edges to the feathers ; rump and 

 lower back crimson; upper tail-coverts brown to blackish; outer webs of 

 secondary' (juills golden olive, duller tlian back, rest of quills dark brown 

 with white spots on inner webs — tlie tips of the primaries pale brown to 

 whitish : tail black. Lower parts buffy wliite, sometimes witli rufous 

 tinge on cliin and breast ; a broken black stripe down the middle of the 

 chin and throat, getting broader below ; feathers ot breast and abdo- 

 men with broad black edges, so as to produce a scale-like pattern : 

 (links and lower tail-coverts barred black. 



Iris dark brown. LFpper mandible and terminal half of lower, 

 dull black; remainder of lower mandible bluish s^late. Mouth bluish 

 slate. Legs dusky green. Claws horn-colour. 



Distrilnition. The long-winged race of this Woodpecker has 

 been reported from Northern and Cential Siam, and from Kok Lak in 

 Soath-western Siam. In addition, I have obtained it at Muak-lelc 

 and Lat Una Kliao, in the Eastern division of tlie countr)', and at 

 iSriraciia, in iSouth-easteni. A female (with a wing of 133 mm.) which 

 my collector procured at Bangnara, Patani, in the e.xtrenie soutii of the 

 Siamese portion of the Peninsula, is, however, referable to the short- 

 winged southern form, T. j. jaranensis. 



My single Bangkok specimen C 9 ) ^vas shot at Wat Tliong 

 Insri, on the left bank of the river about 3 miles soutii of fathorn 

 Koad, on 6th February 1915. 



72. lynx torquilla iiinn. 'I'/ic W'rjinech. 



llin.i- torquitln, Bliiiifdid, I'\iiui. Miil. India, WxwU. iii (18t*-j), p. ~i^ ; 

 Gyldcustolp.', .Jouni. X. 11. S. Siam, i, y. -.'IJO (UU5). 



Betcrifiion. Length I'Jl mm. ('/.u in.). Above brownish grey, 

 finely speckled and mottled ; a dark brown patch, uneveidy coloiu-ed, 

 from the nape to the middle of tlio hack, another across tlie coverts 

 of each wing, n few longitudinal dark streaks on the lower back, and 



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