1843.] Mr. Bfyth's Report for December Meeting, 1842. 1003 



The bill and feet are blackish-blue." I have italicized the few par- 

 ticulars wherein it would appear to differ from the species above de- 

 scribed, and considering its alleged inferiority of size, I think that it 

 will not improbably prove distinct. 



The two next species resemble in having a nuchal crest of brilliant 

 yellow silky feathers, much as in P. ( Brachylophus ) mentalis, which 

 is also a green-bodied species, though pertaining to a different sub- 

 group of Woodpeckers; and the first of them has also the primaries 

 barred with ferruginous and black, nearly as in P. mentalis, and 

 also much resembling the general colouring of P. pyrrhotis, Hodgson, 

 J. A. S. VI, 108, which latter species, so far as I can judge from a 

 young specimen, would seem to be best ranged in Gecinus (the sub- 

 genus under consideration) : in other respects, the two following Wood- 

 peckers do not appear to be particularly allied, further than that in 

 both the rump is nearly or quite of a uniform green with the back. 



5. P. flavinucha, Gould, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 120; P. flavigula, 

 Hodgson, J. A. 8. VI, 106, which see for description. It appears to 

 be not uncommon in Nepal, and also in Arracan. 



6. P. Nipalensis, Hardwicke and Gray, III Ind. Zool, badly 

 figured; P. mentalis apud Jerdon, Madr. 31. Vol. XI, 214, but not 

 P. (Brachylophus ) mentalis of Temminck. Much smaller and less 

 robustly formed than the preceding species. Length about nine inches 

 and a half, the wing five and a quarter, and middle tail-feathers 

 four and a half; bill to forehead about an inch. Colour of the upper- 

 parts bright green, the throat whitish, with dusky tips to the feathers, 

 which latter become so much developed on those of the foreneck and 

 breast, that these parts appear wholly dusky, having sometimes a 

 slight ashy, and sometimes a greenish, cast; belly and flanks dingy 

 whitish, with dusky cross-bars: lores whitish, surmounted by black, 

 over which (in the male) commences a crimson streak meeting its 

 opposite on the forehead, and continued backward to the occiput, this 

 crimson being confined to the occiput in the female; the white of the 

 lores is continued as a streak to the lowermost ear-coverts, and the 

 male has an admixture of crimson on the moustachial plumes: the 

 large wing-feathers are bright ruddy on their outer webs (anterior to 

 the emargination of the primaries), which are margined with green, 

 slightly on the primaries and deeply on the secondaries and ter- 



