1842.] Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. 165 



page 280 of the same volume, the Strix scutellata, Raffles (the legs of 

 which are stated to be " feathered to the toes," whence the applicability 

 of the name bestowed is not very manifest, unless it allude to the toes 

 only). Referring to the Appendix to Shaw's Zoology, we also find noticed 

 the Noctua Sonnerati, Tern., N. hirsuta, Tern., and N. Brama, Tern., 

 which last is the N. Indica, Franklin fProc. Zool. Soc, 1831, 115), and 

 is common in this neighbourhood, where likewise occurs the Strix 

 lugubris, Tickell (Jour. As. Soc., II. 572). 



A Noctua Tarayensis, nearly allied to cuculoides, is also described by 

 Mr. Hodgson, As. Res. XIX. 175, together with the Brodiei (v. tubiger, 

 H.,) and two species of Scops, which may have to be added to Sc. 

 Lempiji, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII. 140. 



4. Picus (Dendrocopus) Himalayanus, Jardine and Selby, III. Orn. 

 pi. CXVI., representing the unmoulted young male. (Black-backed 

 Woodpecker.) I am not aware that the adults of this species have ever 

 been described. It is closely allied to the European P. major, from 

 which it differs in various details, and the adult to a greater extent than 

 the young bird, which latter has the under-parts streakless pale dingy 

 fulvous-brown, and the entire crown tipped with red in the male, but 

 not in the female, whereas both sexes of the young of P. major have 

 the crown thus tipped. The adult male, as in P. major, is distinguish- 

 ed from the other sex by having a glossy crimson occiput. Length 9f 

 inches, the female rather less ; from wing to bend respectively 5 J and 

 5 inches ; and tail 3^ inches : bill to forehead 1£ inch, and tarse f inch. 

 All the upper-parts, save the crimson occiput of the male, fine glossy 

 black, with a great white wing-spot formed by the tertiary-coverts, 

 and less developed in the male than in the female and young : four 

 middle tail-feathers wholly black, the rest successively more barred 

 with fulvous-white : the large feathers of the wing, except the two first 

 primaries, marked with white spots on their outer webs, and with larger 

 white spots on the inner web : vent and lower tail-coverts crimson : 

 under-parts from the breast golden fulvous-brown (in the adult), having 

 a broadish black streak along the middle of each feather, becoming 

 obsolete on the middle of the belly : throat and fore-neck dingy-fulvous, 

 flanked by a black line extending from the side of the lower mandible 

 to the shoulder ; above this line is a triangular patch of golden-fulvous 

 impending the shoulder, and continued forward (generally without inter- 



