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TAB. X LIX. 
PICUS SHORII. 
Pic. supra aurantio-viridis ; capite cristato, dorso uropygrogue coccmners ; subtus albus ; strigd 
postoculart, altera a rictu extendente, nuchd, remgibus, rectrictbus, notisque squamosis 
pectores abdomumisque atris ; thorace pallidé grisescenti-brunneo. 
Longitudo corporis, 12 unc. 
Tus very brilliantly coloured species of Woodpecker we have very great pleasure in naming after the 
Hon. C. J. Shore, through whose researches in Ornithology, while in India, it was first made known, and who 
with the utmost kindness and liberality allowed the accompanying Plate to be drawn from a specimen in his 
collection. This specimen, which was the only one Mr. Shore was so fortunate as to procure, exhibits a close 
affinity with Preus tiga, Horsf., a well known inhabitant of the Indian Archipelago, as well in colouring as in 
the absence of the inner hind toe, which in both birds is represented only by a rudimentary tubercle. 
The head is covered with an elongated crest, which with the rump is of a rich scarlet; a white line extends 
from the base of the upper mandible to the occiput, edging the scarlet of the head; below this white line a 
black band, beginning behind the eye, passes through the ear-coverts to the back of the neck, where it is 
spread as far as to the back; the cheeks and sides of the neck are white, separated from the throat and fore- 
part by a wavy black line passing from the gape to the sides of the chest ; a brownish mark borders the base 
of the inferior mandible ; the throat is white; the back orange, passing off into various tints of scarlet on the 
shoulders and wing-coverts, and on the rump into bright scarlet; the quills, tail, and upper tail-coverts, 
are black ; the under surface is dirty brownish white, with black scales; the bill and tarsi black. 
The bird is figured of the natural size. 
