272 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



the base of the lower mandible doWn the sides of the neck ; two 

 outer tail-feathers barred with white ; the next spotted on the outer 

 web only; •chin whitish; the rest of the lower parts fulvescent, 

 darker and rusty on the breast, and with longitudinal black streaks 

 on the sides of the breast, the whole lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts ; in males the spots on the breast coalesce into a 

 crimson gorget ; the occiput, also, being crimson in the male, which 

 colour extends behind the ear-coverts to the black streak, and 

 tends to be continuous with the gorget; the female wants the 

 crimson of the hind-head and gorget, and has the lower parts 

 generally whiter. One female, however (at least a specimen with 

 a black head), in the IMuseum, As. Soc, Calcutta, has an indication 

 the crimson pectoral band. 



Bill bluish-white ; legs plumbeous ; irides red-brown. Length 

 7 inches : wing 4 ; tail 2^ ; bill at front | ; foot 1^. The tail 

 is less rigid and pointed than in the two previous species. 



This Woodpecker, which has somewhat of the general ap- 

 pearance of P. minor of Europe, has only been found in the 

 South-east Himalayas, in Nepal, Sikim and Bootan. It is not rare 

 at Darjeeling, and inhabits nearly the same zone as the last. 



We next come to a group which has the upper plumage banded 

 or spotted with white. 



157. Picus Macei, Vieill. 



Temm., PL Col., 59, f. 2— Gray and Hardw., 111. Ind. Zool., 

 1, pi. 32— Blyth, Cat. 293— Horsf., Cat. 984— Dendrocopus 

 pyrrhiceps, HoDGS. 



The Indian Spotted Woodpecker. 



Descr. — Plumage above, including the wings, black, with white 

 bars ; tail with the central feathers unspotted ; the two outermost, 

 on each side, white-banded, and the next partially so ; lores, 

 cheeks, round the eye, ear-coverts and sides of neck, almost encir- 

 cling it behind, fulvescent-whitish ; the whole lower-parts fulves- 

 cent ; a narrow black band from the base of the lower mandible 

 along the sides of the neck, lost in some oval spots which are 



