1876.] MS. " ILLUSTEATIONS OF INDIAN OEXITHOLOGY." 427 



to the Parrots, twenty-one to the Woodpeckers, including Sasia, Vivia, and Yum\ five to the 

 Barbets, and fifteen to the Cucl^oos. 



Palwornis jamnicus {melanorlvjnchns) ; figured from a cage-bird, is represented with a red*, 

 instead of yellow, wing-patch, the part being described of an Indian-yellow colour. The male 

 and female are stated to have the upper mandible red, the under black, but the young to have 

 the bill black, " which colour the female retains till full maturity." 



Picus atratus, Blytb, c? ? (Plate IX. in orifj.), is figured ; and the male is for the first time 

 described. But both description and figure of the male are taken from an immature example, 

 the scarlet on the head only reaching the vertex, whereas in the adult this colour covers the 

 crown and occiput as well. The fulvous-grey colouring of the frontal plumes of the female is 

 somewhat exaggerated in hue and extent. P. atratus is not unlike P. maccei, but is distinguished 

 by having the uropygium uniform black, and not marked with white, and by the bold dark IWs, 1876, 

 brown or black mesial stripes on the pectoral feathers. P' 



Picus majoroides is represented with a large white patch on the middle of the back, which 

 is not quite true to nature, the nape, back, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts in this species being 

 uniform black. 



In Picus mahrattensis {auro-cristatus, Tickell, J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 579, ? ) neither the 

 crimson occiput of the male nor the yellow occiput of the female is represented in the plate. 

 The fact that Hemicercus canente $ has the forehead creamy buff, and not the male, is confirmed 

 by the figure given of" an undoubted female " by Colonel Tickell. 



The little-known Meighjptes jugularis is described and figured from a Tenasserim example 

 of a so-called male ; but the red cheek-stripe is omitted. 



Having figured and described individuals of the Tenasserim race of Tir/a sliorii (T. in- 

 termedia, Blyth), Colonel Tickell gives a plate and description of a distinct species of the same 

 genus, obtained in the forests on the Teesta river, Sikim. Under the title of Chrysonotus 

 biddulphi it is thus described : — " Iris labelled ' hazel.' Bill and legs blackish neutral. Crown, 

 crest, and entire nape, as well as lower back, silky scarlet. Forehead, ramus, and throat, and all 

 foreneck pale brown. Rest of face and neck white. A black line from hinder rim of eye down 

 across the auriculars to the scarlet of nape, which it borders for a short space. Another line from 

 rictus down latero-frontal neck. Another along lower edge of ramus, joining the rictal stripe at 

 end of ramus. And another branching from the last midway on ramus and joining the rictal 

 stripe lower down neck. All breast and lower parts as in sliorii, but with browner edges to the 

 feathers ; upper parts the same, but a broad black band runs across top of back and separates 

 the scarlet and white of nape and neck from the gold-yellow of upper parts. Wing Q^^. 

 Tail 4f (beyond wing If). Bill 14. Tarsus 1. Inn. toe |f." This form does not appear to 

 have been since recognized. 



Cijanops franliini, from Mooleyit range, Tenasserim, is described and figured with the 

 superciliary stripe unspotted black, the typical form. 



Two birds are figured on the next plate, one being named Megalaima indica (Lath.), and Ibis, 1876, 

 called by Colonel Tickell the Village Barbet, the other 31. philipjjensis, Temm., and which he P' ^'^^• 



* It is so described by Jerdon (B. Ind. i. no. 152). 



