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Hovelties ? 
Picus pyrrhothorax, Sp. Nov. 7 
Like P. cathpharius, but differs in both sexes having an intense red 
gorget, in the much greater amount of white on its quills and lateral 
tail feathers, and in the female also having a broad crimson occipital 
band, Fe. 
At Aimole, in the Eastern Manipur hills, I procured two 
specimens of a most lovely little Woodpecker which I believe 
to be new. 
At any rate, it is none of our hitherto recorded Indian 
Burmese or Malayan species; it is not one of the Chinese 
species included by Peré David and Oustalet ; nor is it any 
Palearctic species included by Dresser ; nor is it in Malherbe, 
the P. E. or P. C., the Fauna Japonica, or any other book I can 
think of. 
It more resembles P. cathpharius than any other species, 
but differs, inter alia, in its intense red gorget, present in both 
sexes; in ale much greater amount of white on the quills and 
Jateral tail feathers ; in the female also exhibiting a huge, broad, 
fiery crimson occipital band, &e. 
The following are particulars of my two specimens :— 
Length. Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 
“ ros 1-7 2°85 372 06 0°8 0°95 oz. 
$  . 68 120 24 385 O71 08-2 0°95 ,, 
Female.—Legs and feet dusky lavender; claws brown; bill 
blackish horny, greyish at base of lower mandible ; irides lac red. 
Male.—Legs and feet dull sap green; claws horny dusky ; 
bill leaden dusky, paler at base of lower mandible ; ; irides lac red. 
The female, which I procured on the 18th April, and of which 
I quote my full description written before the bird was skinned, 
has the frontal band rusty white; the rest of the forehead 
and crown black; lores, a band over and below the eye, 
cheeks, and ear-coverts silver white; a broad black mandi- 
bular stripe down the sides of the neck to the breast; chin and 
upper throat white ; lower throat buffy. 
Upper breast between the ends of the mandibular stripes 
intense crimson; from the lower margin of this crim- 
son patch, and the ends of the mandibular stripes, strongly 
marked streaks of black radiate out over the entire breast, the 
ground of which is white, more or less tinged with rusty, and 
this is the colour of the abdomen and sides, ‘though most of the 
feathers are dark shafted, and there is a decided reddish tinge 
on the lower abdomen, just above the vent ; lower tail-coverts 
white, tipped and tinged with rather dull crimson. 
