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and tall, are brownish black, having a slight aureous cast on the 

 scapulars ; wings, with their coverts and secondaries, bright golden- 

 yellow ; bend of the wing, winglet, and coverts of the primaries, 

 as also the primaries, dusky black, with distant, large, round 

 whitish spots on their inner webs, and similar dull spots on the 

 outer webs ; a broad black streak down the sides of the neck, from 

 the eye ; beneath the throat, white, with three black stripes ; the 

 rest of the body, beneath, more or less streaked ; the feathers of the 

 breast white, with black lateral edges, which last, gradually, all but 

 disappear on the belly, vent, and lower tail-coverts. 



Bill dusky-blackish; legs and feet horny-plumbeous; irides 

 crimson. 



Length 12^ inches ; wing 6^ ; tail 3^ ; bill at front 1| or 2 ; 

 foot 2f. 



This handsome Woodpecker is found in various districts of the 

 Peninsula and Central India, being rare in most parts, but common 

 in a few localities. I have found it in the jungles of the Eastern 

 Ghats, in parts of Mysore, between Bangalore and the Neilgherries, 

 in the Vindhyian mountains near Mhow, and in the hilly and 

 jungly districts of Nagpore, between that and the Nerbudda. Mr. 

 Elliott met with it in Dharwar, in the Southern Mahratta country, 

 not far from Goa (whence it was originally sent), and it has been 

 obtained in the Midnapore jungles ; but it is alike absent in the 

 Malabar forests and in the Himalayas. In most parts of the country, 

 I observed it in thin forest-jungle ; in one locality in a grove of 

 palm-trees near a village. Mr. Elliot, too, found it in pairs, on 

 cocoanut palms, often three or four pairs on the same tree. 



Picus strictus, of Horsfield, from Java and Malayana, is very 

 closely allied to C. sultaneus, being another member of this genus ; 

 as is likewise P. hcemafrbion of Wagler, from the Philippines, which 

 is almost entirely crimson. P. validus, T., from Malacca, also 

 belongs to this sub-family, but has been separated as Reinioardti- 

 picus. This species, by its coloration, shows a tendency to 

 Venilia. 



Gen. MuLLERiPicus, Bonap. 



Syn. Hemilophus, Swains. 



