1845.] or little known species of Birds. 195 



margins ; black caudal bars comparatively broad. Inhabits the Malay 

 countries. 



2. P. ( M.J phaioceps, nobis. P. rufus, Lath., apud Gray, nee 

 Gmelin ; Rufous Indian Woodpecker, Latham. Wing four inches and 

 three-quarters long, and the rest in proportion : head subfuscous above, 

 the throat pale ; the feathers of the latter concolorous with those of 

 the body, or nearly so, having lighter lateral margins ; black caudal 

 bars narrow. Inhabits India proper, extending eastward to Tipperah 

 and Arracan. 



The type of Meiglyptes is P. tristis, Raffles, v. pcecilophus, Tem- 

 minck,* which together with an allied species, P. (M.J brunneus, also 

 from the Malay countries, is referred to Hemicercus by Mr. Eyton. 



P. ( M.J jugularis, nobis, is a third species, of a shorter and thick- 

 er form than the two above-mentioned, and in size, form, and colour- 

 ing, much resembling P. (Hemicercus) canente, Lesson, of which the 

 female is P. cordatus, Jerdon : but it is readily distinguished by the 

 very different form of the bill, by the buffy-white colour of the nape, 

 and by the rays or specks of the same hue upon its black throat. 

 Length about seven inches and a half, of wing four inches, and tail 

 two and one-eighth ; bill to forehead seven-eighths. Colour black or 

 brown-black, varied with buffy-white, and an obscure dull crimson 

 moustache in the male ; occipital feathers elongated and black : neck 

 whitish, more or less deeply tinged with buff, and continued as a 

 streak along each side of the breast in front of the wings ; rump also 

 buffy-white, a broad oblique stripe of the same upon the wings, and 

 their nether surface and edge are of this hue, the large alars being 

 broadly banded at base internally, with slight narrow pale bars or se- 

 ries of small spots on their outer surface ; forehead, throat, and some- 

 times crown, more or less speckled or rayed with the same pale colour 

 that variegates the rest of the plumage. Inhabits Arracan and the 

 Tenasserim provinces (specimens from the latter territory having been 

 erroneously referred to P. pcecilophus, Tern., in X, 828). 



P. (Hemicercus) concretus, Tem. It is probable that there are two 

 species confounded under this name. All that I have seen are from 

 the vicinity of the Straits, and accord with Stephens's " Sumatran va- 



* These would seem enumerated as distinct in Mr. Ey ton's catalogue, Proc. Zool. 

 Soq, 1839, p. 106 ; but it is evidently a mistake of the printer. 



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