JUuat rations vf Indian Ornittwlofjy: 



Fbr example three specios, formerly considered tlie same, have been found te firm thV" 

 5»roiip of whicij the Mahiy P'.rui Ladias was lhefirst(iescriberf=--vK. P. hudim vents, from' 

 Alalayana, P. phaioceps, from Bengal, and 7*. f/idarix, inihi, from Southern India. In like • 

 loajiner the {^roup to which the Maiay:'4> P. .'/(/a belongs Las at least Iwo r('presentiitive«t ia 

 Gontincntal Indii.y; viz. P. ifiorii and intermedins. Two addilioual sj>ccies have been added 

 to the Bevgahtisis group, viz. Miiropus i'nom Southern Indiii, and another from Seinde, a^ ■ 

 I have lately learned from Mr. Bh th, and other instances might readily be- adduced. No\t 

 ill all these cases-the distinctions thoxigJi constant, are apparently very trifling, and only ap-- 

 preoiablc after ariose examination, in some cases being merely stFuctural. I am ther» tore • 

 led to conclude in the absence of actusil ca«jpari8on(,of specimens from Pegu that n>y /'. 

 cordatus is the continental representative of cmtente, and a distinct species. A nearly allied 

 gpecies has quits recently been procui'ed by Air. Blyth from Arracan which he has named 

 jujularis. 



The hcart-gpot^ed NVx)0<]p«c4cer -s found only in the highest forests of Malabar^- 

 Travancore, and Canara, frequenting high trees, usually in pairs, or sing^le. Like ^^'ool- 

 peckers generally it is a wary bird, and being constfintly in mot'ion, oeciisionaUv eludes tho 

 pavsuit of the naturalist. TlioHgh generally spread tliro ugh the forests of Western India, 

 it is a rare bird. Collections made on the West-Coast however usually include if. 1 have 

 iM)t seen it- myself from anyother past of the country, but Mr. Blyth, I think, has obtained- 

 specimens from Assam or Arracan. 



Description — Male^foreliead .-"jd ''rown, c]nn, throat and checks, back, *tripe 

 along the wings, and-tertiaries yellowish white, the latter tcrminatccl witli a bhick hcarl- 

 shaped spot. Hind head and long octipifal, crest, nape, seapiiLirs, quills, uppi'r and under 

 tail coverts, vent and taii deep black. Beneath from throat to ihe wnt dull green. On tiie 

 eeiitre of the back isabrusli of dark sap green feathers, rough and bristiv, and usually 

 smeared with a viscid secretion. Rill blackish — legs and feet greenish Wack — iiides brown 

 red. 



The female diffci^s anLy ill having thft torehead and crown black, dotted with \t-i- 

 lowirih wli.ite. 



Length under 6 Inches— \^lng tjj — Tail 1 t^* — Tarsus vkiIi— Bill (at front) is^h. 

 ta -Ti'^^Cre.st long ; form peculiarly robust ; feet large ; ^vings long.. 



