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Habits, <Sfc. This species is chiefly found in tamarisk scrub, 

 which abounds in Si nd and the neighbouring countries. It breeds 

 in holes in tamarisk and babul {Acacia arabica) trees in March 

 and April. 



964. Dendrocopus darjilensis. The Darjeeling Pied Woodpecker. 



Dendrocopus maj oroides, Hodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844 f 



descr. nulla). 

 Picus (Deudrojopus) darjellensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 19$ 



(J845). 



Picus darjellensis, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xvi, p. 466; id. Cat. p. 62. 

 Picus majoroides, Gray, Cat. Mamm. $c. Coll. Hodys. pp. 115, 155 



(1846) ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. \\, p. 671 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 270 ; id. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 7 ; Bulger, Ibis, 1869, p. 156 ; Godw.-Anst. J. A. S. B. 



xxxix, pt. 2, p. 97 ; 'Scully, S. F. viii, p. 244 ; Hume, Cat. no. 155. 

 Dendrocopus daijilensis, Haryitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 221. 

 The Darjeeliny Black Woodpecker, Jerdon; Sadyer-monff-prek,Leycha,. 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes black ; forehead, lores, narrow 

 supercilium, and sides of face, including the ear-coverts, whity 

 brown ; sides of neck behind the ear-coverts the same, washed with 

 orange or golden yellow ; crown and upper surface generally 

 glossy black, except the occiput and nape which are light crimson, 

 and the innermost median and greater wing-coverts which are 

 mostly or wholly white; wing-feathers black with white spots on 

 both webs ; tail-feathers black, the median two pairs uniform, the 

 others more or less barred with fulvous white ; chin whitish, ends 

 of bristles black, throat light brown unstriped ; breast and abdomen 

 yellowish fulvous, with longitudinal black streaks, becoming bars 

 on the flanks ; vent and under tail-coverts light crimson. 



In the female the occiput and nape are black instead of red. In 

 a young male, described by Scully, all the feathers of the crown 

 were tipped with dull crimson. 



Upper mandible slaty black, lower grey horny ; orbital skin 

 plumbeous; irides reddish brown to deep crimson; feet dingy 

 green (Scully). 



Length 9-5 ; tail 375 ; wing 5 ; tarsus '9 ; bill from gape 1'5. 



Distribution. Himalayas in Sepal and Sikhim, from about 3000 

 to 12,000 feet elevation, and eastward to Moupin and Western Se- 

 chuan. This Wood pecker was also obtained in the North Cachar 

 and Anghami Naga hills by Godwin- Austen. 



Habits, $c. The breeding does not appear to have been recorded. 

 This species was observed by Scully on moss-covered oaks, usually 

 singly or in pairs high up on the trees. 



965. Dendrocopus cathpharius. The Lesser Pied Woodpecker. 



Picus (Dendrocopus) cathpharius, Hodys., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii r 



p. 100(5 (lsi:;>. 

 Picas c.!itli|.!i:irius, lih/th, Cttf. ]>. 63; Horsf. % M. Ca/T. ii, p. 673. 



