THE SPOTTED-BREASTED PIED WOODPECKER. 35 



430. PICUS ANALIS. 

 THE SPOTTED-BREASTED PIED WOODPECKER. 



Picus analis, Temm.*, Horsf. Zool. Res. Java, Gen. Cat. Fain. xii. ; Malh. Hon. Pic. 

 i. p. 99, pi. xxiv. fig. 5-7 ; Simdev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 25 ; Hume, S. F. iii. 

 p. 57 ; Wold. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 148 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 309 ; Hume, 

 S. F. viii. p. 87 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 190. Picus pectoralis, Bl. J. A. S. B. xv. 

 p. 15. Dendrotypes analis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 40 ; Bl. fy Wald. B. Burm. 

 p. 78. 



Description. Male. Similar in general aspect to P. macii, but differing 

 in the following respects : The upper back is barred with white, like the 

 remainder of the interscapulary region and rump ; the upper tail-coverts 

 are barred with white ; all the tail-feathers are barred or spotted with 

 white; the sides of the head and throat are a pure white; the lower 

 plumage is less fulvous, and the chest and breast are conspicuously spotted 

 with black ; the remainder of the lower plumage is closely barred with 

 black; the vent and under tail-coverts are only faintly washed with 

 red. 



The female differs in wanting the crimson on the head, that part being 

 black. 



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

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

 and spotted with white ; by the vent and under tail-coverts being very 

 faintly tinged with red, instead of being deep crimson as in the preceding 

 Pied Woodpeckers ; and by the breast being spotted with black. 



Bill bluish black, paler at the base ; iris brown ; eyelids purplish 

 brown ; mouth flesh-colour ; legs and feet plumbeous ; claws bluish horn- 

 colour. 



Length 7 inches, tail 2*5, wing 4, tarsus '7, bill from gape 1. The 

 female is of much the same size. 



The Spotted-breasted Pied Woodpecker appears to be locally distributed 

 in Pegu. It is rather common in the neighbourhood of Thayetmyo, and 

 both Mr. Blyth and Lord Tweeddale received it from Tonghoo. Dr. Arm- 

 strong procured it at Elephant Point at the mouth of the Rangoon river ; 

 but I failed to observe it in any portion of Southern Pegu. Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay obtained it in Karennee ; but it has not yet been found in any 

 portion of Tenasserim. 



It occurs in the islands of Sumatra, Java, Madura and Lombock ; and 



* This name is generally quoted as Horsfield's ; but Horsfield distinctly credits 

 Teinminck with it (/. c.). 



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