LILFOBB'8 WOODPECKER. 61 



It is impossible at present to define the geographical limits of this 

 species, as it is so often confounded with P. leuconotus. 



In habits and nidifi cation it doubtless is similar to its congener. 



A male bird sent to me by Lord Lilford, marked March b, 1857, 

 and which is figured, has the top of the head a bright crimson, 

 dotted with • olive brown; nape and upper back black; rump barred 

 black and white. Wings black, with six white bands to the end of 

 the secondaries. Primaries dark brownish black, dotted on their outer 

 web with white spots, and on the base of the inner webs with larger 

 white spots. The third true primary the longest. Throat, neck, and 

 upper chest yellowish white; moustache black. Abdomen yellowish 

 white, with longitudinal streaks of black. Under tail coverts and 

 lower abdomen vermilion. Under wing dark grey with white spots. 

 Length ten inches; wing five inches and a half; tail three inches and 

 a half; tarsus one inch; upper mandible 1.7; lower mandible 1.6. 



This bird has been figured and described by Mr. Dresser, in his 

 "Birds of Europe," by whom also the species was determined. 



