PICID/E. 



1082. lyngipiCUS pygEQ8BUS (Vigors), Jerd., B. 2nd. i. 

 p. 277, No. 163 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 123; Hume, Sir. F. iii. 

 p. 60. The HIMALAYAN PIGMY WOODPECKER. 



Head pale ashy, tinged with brown and bordered with dusky ; sincipital tuft 

 very pale crimson ; upper plumage black, barred with white ; a brown streak 

 from the eye continued down the sides of the neck ; another from above 

 the eye down the sides of the neck to the base of the neck, which forms 

 a collar and joins the white of the sides of the breast ; quills black, spotted 

 with white ; tail blackish, the two outermost banded with white and the third 

 margined with the same; beneath whitish, with mesial dusky streaks. Bill 

 plumbeous ; irides red ; feet brown. 



Length. 5-75 inches ; wing 3-5 ; tail 2 ; bill at front O f 6. 

 ffa&.'N.-W. Himalayas to Nepaul ; Kumaon, Ranibagh. 



1083. lyngipicus Hardwickii, Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 278, 



No. 164. Picus Hardwickii, apud Jerd., 2nd Suppl. Cat. 209. Picus moluc- 

 censis, apud Gray and Hardw., III. Ind, Zool. pi. Yungipicus nanus, Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 123; id., Sir. F. iii. p. 6o.~ The SOUTHERN 

 PIGMY WOODPECKER. 



Head pale rufescent or earthy brown ; a white band from above the eye 

 down the sides of the neck, and another pale brown one from below the eye 

 and a narrow orange streak ; back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts sooty 

 brown, barred with white ; plumage of the under surface sullied white, with 

 pale brown streaks ; quills dusky brown, spotted with white. Bill and legs 

 plumbeous ; irides pale yellow. 



Length. 5 to 5*5 inches; tail 1-5 ; wing 3 ; tarsus 0*4 ; bill at front 0-4. 



Hab. Southern, Central and Northern India. Affects open spaces of forest 

 jungle, gardens and groves. Breeds in the plains of Upper India during 

 March and April. Eggs, pure white, and moderately glossy; a very broad oval. 



Gen. MeiglypteS, Swains. 

 Bill moderately long ; culmen much curved ; nostrils not plumed. 



1084. Meiglyptes grammitliorax (Malh.\ Nicholson, ibis, 



1879, p. 165 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 497 ; Gales, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 59. 

 Phaiopicus grammithorax, Malh., Mon. Pic. ii. p. 12, pi. xlviii., figs. 4 6. 

 Picus tristis (Horsf.), Sundev., Consp. Av. Pic. p. 91 (part) ; Salvad., Ucc. 

 Born. p. 56 (part) ; Blytli, B. Burm. p. 77 (part) ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 

 vi. p. 131 (part.) HORSFIELD'S BARRED WOODPECKER. 



Head and neck all round black, closely barred with narrow lines Of pale buff ; 

 ear coverts tinged with yellowish; lores, feathers lound the eyes and chin 



