124 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



The male lias the forehead pale brown, varying in breadth 

 in different specimens ; the lores similar but paler; feathers 

 round the eye, cheeks and ear-coverts forming a large patch 

 on the side of the head and neck, silvery white ; a conspicuous 

 black mandibular stripe from the gape down the sides of the 

 neck; chin and upper throat white unmarked, or the latter 

 with a few minute black streaks ; lower part of throat white, 

 sometimes with a brownish or yellowish tinge, streaked with 

 black; breast and abdomen clear brownish yellow or somewhat 

 olivaceous brown, varying in tint in different specimens ; the 

 middle of the abdomen always yellowish ; the breast sometimes 

 whitish, in some specimens a little tinged with crimson ; all the 

 feathers with black shaft streaks, largest and most conspicuous 

 on the breast, nearly obsolete in the middle of the abdomen ; 

 flanks barred white and greyish brown ; lower tail-coverts 

 crimson ; posterior part of forehead, crown and occiput crim- 

 son ; interscapulary region, upper tail-coverts and four 

 or six central tail feathers pure black ; rest of back and tail 

 and wings black, barred with white ; the primaries paler 

 colored or darkish hair brown ; first primary with only a trace 

 of one, the others with two or three bars on the outer webs 

 and corresponding spots on the inner webs ; the bars imper- 

 fect on all the quills, represented by spots on both webs ; 

 wing-lining mingled black and white. 



The females never have any red tinge on the breast, and they 

 have the frontal band somewhat greyer and narrower, and 

 the whole upper part of the head black. 



The only two Tenasserim Woodpeckers with which this 

 species could be confounded are Picus analis, Horsf. (pectora- 

 lis } * Blyth ) and Picus macei. 



Analis is much smaller, and has the rump, upper tail-co- 

 verts and central tail feathers barred with white ; macei 

 has the entire under parts pale fawny, with only faint black 

 striations, the color of the lower parts in our bird being to- 

 tally different. 



Lord Tweeddale remarks, Ibis, 1876,313, that atratus is dis- 

 tinguished from macei by having the uropygium uniform 

 black and not marked with white, but in all my specimens 

 of macei I find that there is precisely as much of the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform black as in the present species. 



160. — Picus malirattensis, Lath. S. F., III., 58. 



Ramsay obtained specimens of this species at Tonglwo. It 

 does not, I believe, occur in Tenasserim proper. 



* I unite these two on other people's authority. I have never seen a Javan specimen. 



