40 PICID^E. 



Length 7*5 ; tail 3 ; wing 4'3 ; tarsus *8 ; bill from gape !!. 



Distribution. Along the base of the Himalayas from near Murree 

 to Upper Assam, ascending the outer hills to an elevation of 5000 

 or 6000 feet in the Western Himalayas. This species occurs also 

 throughout Lower Bengal; it is common around Calcutta, and 

 was obtained by Mr. Brooks at Mudhupur in the Sonthal Pergun- 

 nahs ; it also occurs in Tipperah and as far south as Akyab, where 

 it is common, and in Cachar and Manipur. Its occurrence farther 

 south is doubtful ; it was said by Lord Walden to have been 

 obtained by Wardlaw Bam say in Karennee, but there are no 

 specimens in his collections now in the British Museum ; and it 

 was formerly reported from Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, and 

 Ceylon, but the reports are discredited by later writers. 



Habits, $c. Breeds in March, April, and May, laying about 

 three white eggs in a hole in a tree as usual. Eggs measure about 

 9 by -67. 



968. Dendrocopus atratus. The Stripe-breasted Pied 

 Woodpecker. 



Picus atratus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 803 (1849) ; xxviii, p. 412;, 



id. Cat. p. 313 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 471 ; xi, p. 58 ; id. Cat. 



no. 157 quat. ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 343, pi. ix ; Godw.-Aust. 



J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. 2, p. 193; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 123,. 



500 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 34 ; Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2 a) \, 



p. 564 ; vii, p. 378. 



Dendrotypes atratus, Blyth fy Wold. Birds Burm. p. 77. 

 Dendrocopus atratus, Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 263. 



Similar to D. macii, except that the sides of the head and neck 

 are purer white, and that all the lower parts except the chin are 

 boldly streaked longitudinally with black, the breast especially ; 

 the abdomen, too, is yellower. 



Upper mandible dull black, dark brown, or horny brown ; lower 

 mandible pale plumbeous or bluish white; irides light wood to' 

 deep brown ; legs and feet dark plumbeous (Davison). 



Length 8-25 ; tail 3 ; wing 4-75 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from gape 1*2. 



Distribution. Manipur; Karennee and Tenasserim hills as far 

 south as Muleyit, east of Moulrnein, also Laos. Only found on 

 hills, and not below about 3000 feet elevation. 



969. Dendrocopus auriceps. The Brown-fronted Pied 

 Woodpecker. 



Picus auriceps, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 44 (published Apr. 6, 1831), 

 Picus brunnifrons, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 176 (Mar. 2, 1832) ; 



Blyth, Cat. p. 62 ; Jerdon, ibis, 1872, p. 7. 

 Leiopicus brunnifrons, Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 674. 

 Picus brunneifrons, Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 273 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B, 



xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 20; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 412; Hume. [Cat. 



no. 159; C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 410. 



