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Length 10-5 ; tail 3-9 ; wing 5'2 : tarsus 1 ; bill from gape 1'2. 



Distribution. Common in the Pegu hills between Thayet Myo- 

 and Toungngoo, also throughout Tenasserim. The most southern 

 locality recorded is Kussoom, a little north of Junk Ceylon. 



Habits, fyc. This "Woodpecker inhabits both deciduous and ever- 

 green forest, but is chiefly found on and amongst bamboos. 

 According to Davison it occurs singly or in pairs, never hi parties. 



Genus HYPOPICUS, Bonap., 1854. 



Bill slender, compressed, truncated ; culmen straight, angulate ; 

 nasal ridge strongly marked, but low down near the commissure 

 and not extending more than halfway along the bill; nostrils 

 basal, nasal plumes short ; gonys long, chin-angle near to 

 the gape, much concealed by bristles ; fourth (outer posterior) toe 

 slightly longer than third (outer anterior). Head scarcely crested. 

 Outer pair of tail-feathers shorter than coverts. Plumage soft, 

 black and white above, chestnut below ; crown of head red in 

 males, black spotted with white in females. 



Only two species are known, one inhabits the Himalayas, the 

 other Northern China. 



960. Hypopicus hyperythrus. TJte Ritfous-lellied Pied 

 Wooclpecker. 



Picus hyperythrus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 23 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



xiv, p!" 196 ; id. Cat. p. 63 ; Blanford, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 43. 

 Hypopicus hyperythrus, Bonap, Comp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 8 ; Horsf. < 



M. Cat. ii, p. 675 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 276 : 'id. Ibis, 1872, p. 7 ; 



Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 155 ; Hume, Cat. DO. 161 ; 



id. 8. F. xi, p. 59 ; Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 199 ; Oates in 



Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii. p. 301 : Sharpe, Yark. Miss., Aves, 



p. 109. 



Fig. 11. Head of H. hyperythrus, 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes black, white at the base ; base 

 of forehead, sides of face, and chin grey (mixed black and white) : 

 lores, a stripe below the eye and a spot above and behind the eye 

 pure white ; crown and nape crimson ; upper plumage from neck 

 to rump broadly barred black and white ; quills black, spotted 

 on both webs and tipped with white, inner webs of primaries 

 unspotted near the tips ; four middle tail-feathers black, the next 



