1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 15 



in the Indian bird are more rounded, or somewhat truncated, with a 

 slight emargination at the tip of the shaft, while in the Javanese bird 

 they attenuate and are obtusely pointed ; the white bars also assume 

 more the appearance of transverse bands in the Javanese species, and 

 of separated round spots in that of India; while the outermost feather 

 is in the former tipped with white, and the penultimate has an all but 

 terminal white bar, both these feathers in the Indian bird being broadly 

 black-tipped, with a more interrupted white bar above. Should these 

 differences prove constantly distinctive, Mr. Jerdon proposes the name 

 Hardwickii for that of Southern India,* and which Dr. Stewart has re- 

 cently obtained near Cawnpore, a vicinity in which it was also procured 

 by Gen. Hardwicke. #- 



With a few Australian birds, I lately purchased a Woodpecker, allied 9 * £ 

 to P. Macei, which I have not been able to determine. There is no 

 reason to suppose it inhabits Australia, where not a single Woodpecker 

 has yet been discovered ; and while the known Australian species in 

 this small collection (including Eudynamys australis, Sw., quite distinct 

 from the Indian Coel,) were brought as skins, the Woodpecker alone was 

 mounted and wired. General aspect that of P. Macei ; but with merely a 

 faint tinge of red on the lower tail-coverts, and that of the crown is also 

 much less developed, but slightly tipping the feathers, which elsewhere 

 are black (there is an appearance, however, of the crimson having been 

 much abraded on the crown of this particular specimen) : all the tail- 

 feathers are barred with white, the middle pair on each web alternately , 

 and the rump is confusedly rayed with white and dusky black : breast 

 spotted with linear streaks ; and the flanks and belly marked with 

 obscure transverse rays. Length nearly seven inches ; of tail two and 

 a quarter ; (wings imperfect in the specimen ;) bill to forehead (through 

 the feathers) barely seven-eighths of an inch. If new, P. pectoralis, 

 nobis. Hab. — — ? 



Sub-genus Gecinus. The Picus affinis, Raffles, is identified with 

 P. dimidiatus, Tern., in the Zoological Appendix to Lady Raffles's ' Life of 

 Sir St. Raffles, p. 668 ; and Gecinus viridanus, nobis, is certainly ano- 

 ther synonyme of the same. This bird seems common throughout the 

 eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal, as in Arracan and the Tenasserim 



* Madras Journal, No. XXXI, 138. 



