466 Notices and Descriptions of various [May, 



it ; and i cannot doubt that it is Mr. Gray's B. triniaoduius, because 

 the name is a very good one, and the habitat is correct ; besides that 

 I doubt the existence in the Malayan peninsula of more than the fol- 

 lowing species — B. chrysopogon, versicolor, armillaris, qiiadricolor, indi- 

 cits, and the present trimaculatus (?), heretofore confounded by me with 

 B. australis. Colour deep green above, yellowish-green below : tail 

 verditer beneath, and a tinge of the same above, and also at the bend 

 and edge of the wing : throat bright light verditer ; the sides of the 

 forehead and posterior half of the crown, verditer blue-grey : anterior 

 half of the crown, ear-coverts, feathers at base of lower mandible, and 

 slight gorget (more or less defined), black : three large crimson spots 

 on the sides of the face, one behind the eye and above the ear-coverts, 

 a second below the lores and in front of the ear-coverts, and a third 

 below the ear-coverts. Bill and legs black : the vibrissa extremely long. 

 What appear to be the females are duller in their colours, with generally 

 some appearance of crimson below the black gorget. The young are 

 wholly green, paler beneath, with the base of the lower mandible white 

 in dry specimens. 



8. B. australis, Horsfield (nee Raffles) : B. gidaris, Temminck. 

 Inhabits Java. 



9. B. Jlavifrons, Cuv. From Ceylon. (Non vidi.) This would 

 seem to be considerably allied to the last. All these species appear to 

 resemble each other in size.* 



Picus major, P. himalayanus, and P. darjellensis^ (vide XIV, 196). 

 In these three nearly allied Woodpeckers, the bill is shortest and most 

 robust in P. major, longer and more slender in P. darjellensis, and in 

 P. himalayanus intermediate. The adult male of the first has a narrow 

 occipital band of bright crimson ; that of P. darjellensis has a scarlet 

 occipital band more than twice as broad as in P. major ; and that of P. 



* An error seems to have crept into my description of B. qiiadricolor, Eyton, X\ r , 

 14, to judge from three specimens since received by the Society. Instead of — " beneath 

 the eye, and middle of fore-neck, also crimson," read deep blue. 



t In Mr. Gray's list of Mr. Hodgson's specimens presented to the British Museum, 

 P. darjellensis bears the hybrid name P. majoroides, Hodgson, Gray, Zool. Misc. and 

 P. moluccensis apud Hodgson (which is P. pygmceus, nee P. nanus, of Vigors), is 

 referred to P. zizuki, Tern. ; but docs not the latter refer to P. moluccensis verus? Gecinus 

 chloropus, (Yieillot,) apud nos, is also referrred by Mr. Gray to P.xanthoderus, Math., 

 1845 ; but 1 retain my opinion that it is the chlorapns. 



