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latter with a few black specks ; ear-coverts brownish; a black malar 

 band on each side from the base of the lower mandible to the side 

 of the neck ; nape and hind neck black, all the rest of the upper 

 plumage barred black and white ; quills brownish black, with large 

 white spots on both webs ; all the tail-feathers barred black and 

 f ulvescent white ; chin and throat white ; breast and abdomen 

 brownish white, the former distinctly spotted, the latter indis- 

 tinctly; flanks barred brown and whitish; vent and under tail- 

 coverts spotted with brown and faintly tinged with pink. 



In the female the crown is black. 



Bill bluish black, paler at the base ; iris brown ; legs and feet 

 plumbeous (Oates). 



Length 7 ; tail 2-5 ; wing 4-1 ; tarsus '7 ; bill from gape I'O. 



Distribution. Locally distributed in Pegu ; common near Thayet 

 Myo, rare to the southward, though this species has been procured 

 near Rangoon. It has been found at Toungngoo and in Karennee, 

 but nowhere in Tenasserim. Outside Indian limits it occurs in 

 Siam, Cochin China, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, and some other 

 islands. 



Habits, fyc. This Woodpecker according to Oates frequents brush- 

 wood and thin tree-jungle, but not heavy forest. The eggs have 

 not been recorded. 



971. Dendrocopus andamanensis. The Andaman Pied 



Woodpecker. 



Picus andamanensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 412, note (1859) ; 



Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 321 ; Ball, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 279 ; 



id. S. F. i, p. 62 ; Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 300 ; Hume, S. F. ii, 



p. 187 ; id. Cat. no. 157 bis. 

 Dendrocopus audamanensis, Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 267. 



Very similar to D. pectoralis, especially above, except that on 

 the crown and occiput the feathers are dark grey, tipped with 

 crimson in the male, with brown in the female, the red in the male 

 extending farther back than in D. pectoralis ; the present species is 

 also distinguished by the greater prevalence of black, the white 

 bars on the back being narrower, and the white spots on the wing- 

 feathers smaller, whilst the tail-feathers are spotted with white on 

 both webs, not completely banded ; the malar band is broken into 

 spots near the mandible ; 'below, the difference from D. pectoralis is 

 greater, as the breast is nearly covered with large spots, the breast- 

 feathers being blackish brown with whitish edges ; the abdomen is 

 light fulvous brown; the flanks paler and barred with dark brown; 

 lower abdomen and under tail-coverts crimson ; under wing- 

 coverts barred. 



Bill dark slate-colour, darkest on upper mandible; iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet dark olive-green (W. Ramsay}. 



Length 7 ; tail 2-7 ; wing 3-8 ; tarsus -7 ; bill from gape '9. 



Distribution. The Andaman Islands. 



