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973. lyngipicus semicoronatus. The Darjeeling Pigmy 

 Woodpecker. 



Picus semicoronatus, Malherbe, Bull. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Moselle, v, 



p. 21 (1848) ; id. Picida, i, p. 148, pi. xxxiv, fig;. 8. 

 Picus rubricates, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 804 (1849) ; id. Cat. 



p. 63. 



Picus meniscus, Malh. Picida, i, p. 151, pi. xxxv, figs. 2, 3, 4 (1861). 

 Yungipicus rubricates, Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 276 ; Godw.-Aust. J.A.S. B. 



xxxix, pt. 2, p. 97 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 8 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 60 ; 



id. Cat. no. 162 ; Anderson, Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 585. 

 lyngipicus semicoronatus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 25 ; id. Cat. B. M. 



xviii, p. 312 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 59. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and crown ashy with a brownish 

 tinge, occiput scarlet (feathers slightly elongated) ; nasal plumes 

 and lores fulvescent white ; broad superciliary stripe extending 

 back to the side of the neck white, speckled with black, a black 

 line forming a border to the crown above the supercilium, and a 

 brown band, becoming black behind, from the eye to the side of 

 the neck over the lower ear-coverts ; nape and upper back and 

 the upper tail-coverts velvety black ; remainder of back, rump, 

 scapulars, and wings black with white transverse bars ; quills with 

 white spots on both webs, greater and median coverts with white 

 spots or bars, smaller coverts unspotted ; the two middle pairs of 

 tail-feathers black throughout as a rule, the two outer large pairs 

 black barred with white above and with fulvescent below, third 

 pair from the middle varying but generally bordered with white ; 

 malar region dusky, chin and throat whitish ; under surface from 

 throat very light fulvescent brown, with narrow blackish longitu- 

 dinal streaks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries mixed white and 

 black. 



The female has no occipital red band. 



Occasionally there are white markings on the upper tail-coverts 

 and small white spots on the median tail-feathers, but this is 

 -exceptional. The same occurs in other species of lyngipicus, in 

 which the feathers mentioned are normally black throughout. 



Bill plumbeous ; irides red ; feet brown (Jerdon). 



Length 5*5 ; tail 2 ; wing 3*3 ; tarsus *6 ; bill from gape *65. 



Distribution. Sikhim, Bhutan, the Khasi and JSTaga hills, Eastern 

 Manipur, and Yunnan at elevations above about 3500 feet. 



974. lyngipicus pygmaeus. The Himalayan Pigmy Woodpecker. 



Picus pygmams, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 44 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



xiv, p. 197 (partim) ; id. Cat. p. 63. 

 Picus mitchellii, Malh. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1849, p. 530. 

 Yungipicus pygmseus, Horsf. fy M. Cat. p. 676 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, 



p. 277 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 60 ; id. Cat. no. 163 ; Scully, S. F. 



viii, p. 247. 

 lyngipicus pygmaeus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 30; id. Cat. B. M. 



xviii, p. 315 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 306. 



