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met with in thick jungle or on bamboos. The nest has not been 

 observed. 



I cannot separate from the present species /. pumilus, which is 

 said to be distinguished by smaller size and by having the four 

 middle tail-feathers without spots. Many specimens of /. cani- 

 capillus have unspotted or almost unspotted median rectrices, and 

 I find that the wings of seven specimens in the British Museum, 

 marked as adults of /. pumilus, from Pegu and Tenasserim, 

 measure from 3 to 3*15 inches, which is well within the limits of 

 variation for /. canicapillus, as may be seen by Hume's measure- 

 ments (S. F. vi, p. 126). 



976. lyngipicus hardwlckii. The Indian Pigmy Woodpecker. 



Picus (I)endrocopus) hardwickii, Jerdon, Madr. Jour* L. S. xiii. 



pt. 2, p. 138 (1844). 



Picus cinereigula, Malh. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1849, p. 531. 

 Picus variegatus, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 64 (nee Wagler). 

 Yungipicus hardwickii, Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 278 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 8 : 



Blanf. J. A. S. B. xxxviii, pt. 2, p. 168; McMaster, J. A. S. B. 



xl, pt. 2, p. 209 ; Hume, S. F. hi, p. 458 ; iv, p. 36 ; Fairbankj 



S. F. iv, pp. 255, 265. 

 Yungipicus nanus, apud Ball, S. F. ii, p. 390 ; vii, p. 205 ; Hume, 



S. F. iii, p. 60 ; id. Cat. no. 164 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 52 ; Butler, 



ib. p. 385 ; Davidson, S. F. x, p. 297 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 113 ; 



Littledale, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. i, p. 197 (nee Vigors). 

 lyngipicus nanus, Reid, S. F. x, p. 24. 

 lyngipicus hardwickii, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 45 ; id. Cat. B. M. 



xviii, p. 328 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 306. 



The Southern Pigmy Woodpecker, Jerdon; Chitta siruti pachi, Tel. 



Fig. 13. Head of /. hardwickii. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and crown light umber-brown, 

 nape darker ; no dark border at the side of the crown but a narrow 

 scarlet streak on each side of the occiput ; lores and some of the 

 nasal plumes brownish white ; a white stripe from above the eye to 

 the side of the neck ; a broad umber-brown band from the eye over 

 the ear-coverts, and a second white stripe beneath the brown 

 band ; upper parts from nape dark brown with white cross-bands, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts mostly white ; quills, greater and 



