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an inch to the forehead ; wing three inches and a quarter. The breast 

 is marked with dusky oval spots, passing into streaks below ; the aspect 

 of the under parts being much more spotted and less streaky than in 

 the foregoing ; a very strongly marked white line commences above 

 the eye (as in the last), and is continued along the sides of the occi- 

 put to the nape ; and another broad white line from the angle of the 

 mouth is continued to below the ear-coverts. This species is alluded 

 to as a variety of P. moluccensis by Mr. Jerdon ; being thus met with 

 in Southern India, as well as in the Himalaya.* 



Of foreign Woodpeckers in the Society's museum, one of which I 

 can find no description, may be designated 



P. ( Colaptes) hypoxanthus, nobis. Length above a foot, of wing 

 five inches and three-quarters, and tail five inches ; bill to gape one 

 and three-quarters, its form less curved than in P. auratus, the lower 

 mandible not being arched at all. Upper parts crimson, darker on 

 the wings, and passing to yellowish olive-green on the external webs 

 of the large alars, the secondaries and tertiaries with their coverts be- 

 ing broadly margined with dark crimson externally, and the primaries 

 having yellow shafts : tail black above, its outermost feathers freckled 

 with brownish-yellow : a large and broad crimson moustache, and the 

 space between this and the crown, comprising the lores and ear-co- 

 verts, greenish-yellow : throat black, the feathers edged with yellowish ; 

 those of the breast black margined with dark crimson, and leaving a 

 pale central mark on each, inclining to be linear on those of the fore- 

 neck, and gradually assuming the form of a transverse bar more down- 

 ward : the rest of the under parts and inside of the wings bright green- 

 ish-yellow, with some black bars anterior to the flanks. Bill black- 

 ish ; and legs brown. Most probably from some part of South America. 



Before quitting the Picidce, I may remark that the Himalayan 

 Honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus, nobis, J. A. S. XI, 166, and XII, 

 1010,) has a much shorter beak than in the various African species ; 

 with which it accords, however, in all other respects, f 



* The whole of the above are in the Society's museum : and I have before remarked 

 that P. Elliott, Jerdon, which was referred by that naturalist to the present sub-genus, 

 is the true P. ( Chrysocolaptes ) go'ensis, v. melanotus, nobis, passim. 



f To give some idea of the present state of the Society's museum, in the department 

 of Ornithology, it may be here mentioned that of the Linnaaan genus Picus, there are 

 now 121 mounted specimens, appertaining to 49 species ; and of these but 10 speci- 



