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432. PICUS PUMILUS. 
HARGITT^S GREY-HEADED PIED WOODPECKER. 
lyngipicus pumilus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1881, p. 599; id. Ibis, 1882, p. 37. 
Description. — Male. Similar to P. canicapillus , differing in being 
smaller and in having the central four tail-feathers spotless black or with 
merely one or two small white specks. 
Length about 5 inches, tail 1*5^ wing 2'8, bill from forehead '5 to '6. 
This small Woodpecker was described by Mr. Hargitt on my return to 
England^ and his description was based on two specimens procured at 
Malewoon in Southern Tenasserim. My men secured in all six birds^ and 
these were of the same type and distinguishable at a glance from numerous 
specimens of P. canicapillus which they also brought with them from the 
same place. Of these six birds^ one male and two females had the central 
four tail-feathers absolutely spotless ; the others had either one or two 
minute white spots on one or other of the four feathers. 
P. ca7iicapillus, as it proceeds south_, shows a tendency to acquire a 
uniform black tail as regards the central feathers, but it shows no tendency 
to become smaller in size ; and therefore the acquisition of six markedly 
smaller birds at a place where full-sized P. canicapillus was also obtained 
fully justifies Mr. Hargitt in separating the small bird from the large 
one. 
This Woodpecker is not known with certainty as yet to occur elsewhere 
than at Malewoon; but Mr. Hargitt suggests that the small Woodpeckers 
referred to by Capt. Feilden (S. F. iii. p. 59) as occurring at Thayetmyo 
may belong to this species. 
433. PICUS MAHRATTENSIS. 
THE YELLOW-FRONTED PIED WOODPECKER. 
Picus mahrattensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxi ; Malh. Mon. Pic. i. p. 105, 
pi. xxviii. fig. 1-3 ; Smidev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 31 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 274 ; Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 122 ; Ball, 8. F. ii. p. 390 ; Iltime, S. F. iii. p. 58 Legge, 
Birds Ceylon, p. 184; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 87. Picus aurocristatus, Tick. 
J. A. S. B. ii. p. 579. Picus blanfordi, Bl. J. A. S. B. xxxii. p. 75. Liopipo 
mahrattensis, Bl. B, Burm. p. 78. 
Description. — Male. Nasal plumes^ forehead and anterior half of crown 
dull straw-yellow ; posterior half of crown scarlet ; a patch of dark brown 
on the nape ; sides of the head extremely pale yellow tinged with fulvous ; 
sides of the • nape white nearly meeting behind the brown nape-patch ; 
