1837.] Description of three new species of Woodpecker. 107 



lor occupies the bases of the plumes : body below, slaty grey with 

 a green smear : wings internally, and the primaries wholly, igneous 

 cinnamon, with five or six blackish cross bars occupying both webs of 

 the primaries, but the inner webs only of the secondaries and terti- 

 aries : tips of the primaries, black brown : rectrices, pure black : lin- 

 ing of the wings, whitish with black bars — the ground color tinged 

 with the proximate lines : the bill, white with a plumbeous base : 

 feet, plumbeous or slaty blue : orbitar skin, green : sexes alike : im- 

 mature birds have the chin and throat brown like the forehead : 14 

 inches long by 21 wide, and 6 to 7 ounces in weight. 



Yunxin^e*. 

 Genus or sub-genus new. Vivia, nobis. Wee-wee of the Nipalese. 

 Generic character : — 



Bill shorter than the head, straight, conical and acuminated : tip 

 of the upper mandible, sub-wedged — of the lower, pointed. 



Nares rounded, and hid by the nuchal tufts. Wings to middle of 

 tail; 1st quill and sub-bastard, 2nd long, 5th longest; all entire : 

 primaries longer than tertiaries, \ inch. 



Tail medial, soft, 1 2f, the six centrals, even : the six latei - als, 

 extremely gradated : tongue and feet picine ; the anterior and pos- 

 terior outer toes equal to each other and to the tarsus. 

 Species new. V. Nipalensis ; Nipalese Vivia, nobis. 

 Form, has been accurately described in the generic character. 

 Color. Above, greenish yellow, darker and duller on the head, 

 dorsal neck, and ears : below, white, tinged with yellow, and ocellat- 

 ed from the chin to the breast — cross-barred thence to the tail, with 

 black : two white lines down each side the head and neck, from the 

 bill to the shoulders, enclosing the eyes and ears between them : 

 frontal zone, pale and yellow : rectrices, the two central, black on one 

 web, white on the other ; the four next wholly black ; the rest paled on 

 the outer webs and tips : wings, dusky brown internally, and void of 

 bars ; towards the base paled : males with a chesnut forehead, dotted 

 with black : females with a saturate green forehead, concolorous with 

 the upper surface of the head and neck : sexes of same size : 4 inches 

 long by 7$ wide, and § an ounce in weight. 



Remarks. These singular little birds are clearly distinguishable 

 from the genus Yunx (AuctorumJ by their Picine tongue and by the 



* With the general reader no apology will be necessary for describing the 

 following little bird as a Woodpecker. The Yunxina sub-family can hardly 

 boast a generally-admitted independence. 



t All the 12 are ranged in regular series, without any sign of the anomalous 

 disposition noticeable in the extreme laterals of all the Piciatus. 

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