THE FULVOUS-BREASTED PIED WOODPECKER. 33 



the course of some years, but it was a nestling, and consequently this 

 Woodpecker may not be quite so rare at Bankasoon as is supposed. 



It extends down the Malay peninsula, and is also found in the islands 

 of Sumatra and Borneo. 



Genus PICUS, Linn. 



428. PICUS MACIL 

 THE FULVOUS-BREASTED PIED WOODPECKER. 



Picus macei, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 80 ; Malh. Mon. Pic. i. p. 96, 

 pi. xxiv. tig. 1-4 ; Jerd. B. 2nd. i. p. 272 ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Pio, p. 25 j 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 120 ; Cripps, S. F. vii. p. 261 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 

 p. 87 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 245. Dendrotypes macei, Bl. B. Burm. p, 77. 



Description. Male. Nasal plumes and forehead brown; the whole of 

 the crown of the head crimson; a large triangular patch on the nape 

 black ; sides of the head and neck nearly meeting behind the nape-patch 

 dull white ; upper wing-coverts and upper back black ; the wings, scapulars, 

 interscapulary region, lower back and rump black, with bar-like white 

 spots ; upper tail-coverts and the four central tail-feathers entirely black ; 

 the remaining tail-feathers black barred with white; a stripe running 

 down the side of the throat from the lower mandible to the side of the 

 upper breast black ; lower plumage fulvous, sparingly streaked with black 

 on the breast and abdomen and barred with black on the sides of the body 

 and flanks ; vent and under tail-coverts scarlet. 



The female differs in having those parts of the head black which are 

 crimson in the male ; the forehead and nasal plumes are also black. 



This species may be recognized by the whole crown being crimson in the 

 male, black in the female ; by the central tail-feathers being unspotted 

 black ; by the sides of the head and the throat being fawn-coloured, not 

 white ; and by the lower plumage being very faintly streaked and barred 

 with brown. 



Bill plumbeous dusky, grey-horny at base; feet greenish plumbeous. 

 (Scully.) 



Length 7*5 inches, tail 3, wing 4 % 1, tarsus *7, bill from gape T2. The 

 female is of much the same size;. 



The Fulvous-breasted Pied Woodpecker was received by Mr. Blyth from 

 both the Arrakau and Teuasscrim Divisions. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay met 

 with it on the Karin hills at an elevation of 3000 feet and in Karennee at 



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