1843.] Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842, 1005 



Wagler, and also I believe certain other species, together with the 

 following : — 



P. (Chrysocolaptes) melanotus, Nobis. Length above a foot, of 

 which the tail exceeds three inches and a half; wing six inches; beak 

 to forehead an inch and seven-eighths; long hind-toe and claw an inch 

 and a half; short hind-toe and claw three-quarters of an inch. Crown 

 and occiput of male splendid carmine, less crimson than in P. strictus, 

 but otherwise nearly similar, only not converging to a peak behind ; 

 forehead mingled black and white ; a white streak commences behind 

 the eye, and is continued to the nape, the entire hind-part of the neck 

 being wholly white, much more broadly so than in P. strictus, and 

 extending down upon the interscapulars; the rest of the back, rump, 

 tail, and scapularies, are brownish-black, having a slight aureous cast 

 on the last ; wings bright golden-yellow, less vivid on the volar fea- 

 thers and their larger coverts ; the bend of the wing, with the wing- 

 let, and the coverts of the primaries, dull blackish; primaries dusky, 

 having distantly placed large round whitish spots on their inner webs, 

 and dull similar spots on the outer webs of those contiguous to the 

 secondaries ; there is a broad black streak down the sides of the neck 

 from the eye; and the under-parts are handsomely streaked, com- 

 mencing with three black stripes on the throat upon a white ground ; on 

 the breast the feathers are white with black lateral edges, which last 

 gradually almost disappear on the belly: bill blackish; feet apparently 

 have been lead-coloured; and the irides are marked to have been 

 "brilliant pink-red." This beautiful bird was obtained near Midna- 

 pore. 



I have other Woodpeckers to describe, but they require some further 

 elucidation at present; and of allied forms, Mr. Hodgson has recently 

 sent the Picumnus innominatus, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 154, vel 

 Piculus (olim Vivia) Nipalensis, Hodgson, J. A. S. VI, 107, which 

 is perfectly true to the generic type of Picumnus minutus, Tem., of the 

 West Indies and Guiana; and the Comeris (olim Sasia) ochracea, 

 Hodgson, J. A. S. V, 778, which I suspect will come under the 

 Microcolaptes of Temminck, founded on his Picumnus abnormis. 

 The Sasia ochracea, Hodgson, was obtained by Dr. McClelland in 

 Assam. 



[The following I have just received from Darjeeling. 



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