1006 Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



Picus (Dendrocopus, Sw.) cathpharius* Hodgson. Length about 

 seven inches and a half, of wing four inches, and middle tail-fea- 

 thers two and a half; bill to forehead seven-eighths of an inch. 

 Colouring as in P. Himalayanus (XI, 165), except that the under 

 tail-coverts are not red, and the crimson of the occiput extends behind 

 the ear-coverts to the black streak below them, tending to be conti- 

 nued into a gorget on the breast, where the feathers have a crimson 

 tinge : the bill also is proportionally much smaller than in that species, 

 and of a white colour ; and the tail is less rigid and pointed : — the 

 general form being that of the European P. minor. Upper-parts 

 black, with a white wing-patch, and series of white spots on both 

 webs of the large alars: lower-parts fulvescent-brown, the feathers 

 below the fore-neck having mesial black streaks; there is a black 

 stripe from the lower mandible along the sides of the neck, and above 

 it a whitish stripe through the eyes to the ear-coverts inclusive, com- 

 mencing on the sides of the forehead ; the two outer tail-feathers are 

 barred with whitish, and the next one spotted with the same on its 

 outer web only ; and the occiput of the male is crimson as described, 

 extending laterally behind the ear-coverts. A Nepalese female in 

 nestling dress (sent by Mr. Hodgson) is rather smaller, with no red 

 on the occiput, but traces of it on the breast as in the adult male ; 

 and the outer tail-feathers have the pale bars broader than the black 

 ones, being the reverse of what is seen in the adult: bill chiefly 



dusky.] 



( To be continued.) 



Addenda. — As the remainder of the foregoing Appendix will appear 

 in a subsequent number, I shall introduce here a few notices referred 

 to in a note to p. 941, ante. 



Rhizomys from Arracan, p. 925. I have just seen two specimens 



of the true Rh. badius, Hodgson, from Darjeeling; and the species 



is distinct from the Arracan one, although Mr. Hodgson's description 



of Rh. badius will apply to either of them. The Nepalese species is 



in colour wholly slaty-grey, having the fur of the upper-parts tipped 



with dark rufous-brown, but shewing only a slight trace of this hue on 



the under-parts, which are glistening dark cinerascent; the brown 



* A totalization of different native names, or rather modifications of the same Hame, 

 for Woodpeckers in general. 



