14 Notices and Descriptions of various Neiv [No. 169. 



Ia7'is, Tern. ; — B. quadricolor, Eyton ; — and B, australis, Horsf. : — a B. 

 trimaculatus, Gray, is also mentioned by Mr. Eyton from the same locality ; 

 and without having a specimen of his B. quadricolor, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 

 105, for present comparison, I rather suspect its identity with B. mystico- 

 phanes, Tern., and with B. Rafflesii, Lesson, Rev. Zool. de la Soc. Cuv.> 

 1839, p. 139. The following description is from specimens in Lord A. 

 Hay's collection. Length about nine inches ; of wing three and three- 

 quarters ; and tail two and a quarter : bill to forehead an inch and three- 

 eighths ; and tarse an inch. Colour green, with an emerald margin to the 

 feathers of the nape ; forehead bright yellow ; crown, throat, lores, and a 

 spot on the side of the breast, crimson ; beneath the eye, and middle of 

 fore- neck, also crimson; sides of the crown, above and posterior to the 

 bare ocular region, black ; and a yellowish tinge towards the base of the 

 lower mandible : emarginated portion of primaries edged with dull 

 yellow ; and tail bluish underneath : bill, legs, and the bristles at base of 

 bill, black. A presumed female has the crown, lores, and spot at side of 

 breast, crimson, but less denned than in the (presumed) male ; throat 

 mingled green and yellowish, passing to bluish on the fore-neck ; fore- 

 head bluish, with yellow shafts to feathers, and some blue beneath the 

 eye and at the base of the lower mandible ; the latter is for the most 

 part white. Length of wing, three inches and three-quarters. 



Picidce. Woodpeckers. Typical Picus, apud G. R. Gray : Dendrocopus 

 of Swainson. I attempted a synopsis of the Indian species of this 

 group, in XIV, 196 et seq. ; since the publication of which, the Society- 

 has been favoured by the Natural History Society of Batavia with a very 

 interesting collection from Java and the Moluccas, which has enabled 

 me to compare various Indian species with their Malayan represen- 

 tatives. Among them is the little Picus tnoluccensis, which, though 

 closely approaching to the Indian species referred to the same, 

 yet exhibits some differences upon minute comparison. Both are 

 certainly distinct from P. canicapillus of Arracan. As compared with the 

 Indian species, that of Java has rather larger bill and feet ; the crown 

 is darker-coloured, passing to blackish, or deeply infuscated, on the 

 occiput and median line of nape ; the wings are shorter, measuring two 

 inches and seven-eighths, while in the Indian species they are three and 

 one sixteenth ; and, lastly, there is a difference in the barring of the 

 tail-feathers, and in the form of the tips of the more outer ones, which 



