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BIHDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
it is said to have been found also in Borneo and the Philippine Islands. 
Dr. Tiraud states that it is common in Cochin China. 
This Woodpecker frequents brushwood and thin tree-jungle. I have 
never seen it in thick forest. 
431. PICUS CANICAPILLUS. 
THE BURMESE GREY-HEADED PIED WOODPECKER. 
Picus canicapillus, Bl. J. A. 8. B. xiv. p. 197 ; Malh. Mon. Pic. i. p. 141 ; Sundev. 
Consj). Av. Pic. p. 29. Yungipicus canicapillus, Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 539 ; 
Htime, 8. F. iii. p. 59 ; Bl. B, Bunn.^. 78 ; Armstrong, 8. F. iv. p. 309 ; Hume, 
8. F. V. p. 25 ; mime 8f JDcw. 8. F, vi. pp. 125, 600 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 87. 
lyngipicus canicapillus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 39. 
Description. — Male. Forehead and crown grey; the nape^ hind neck 
and a streak over the eye black ; a patch of flaming scarlet on either side 
the occiput ; lesser and median wing-coverts black ; the remainder of the 
wings, back, rump and upper tail- coverts black barred with white ; the 
tail black spotted with white ; a broad streak from the eye down the side 
of the occiput white ; ear- coverts brown ; a patch on the side of the neck 
black ; lower plumage dull white streaked with blackish brown. 
The female differs in wanting the scarlet patches on the sides of the 
occiput. 
Iris reddish hazel ; eyelids plumbeous ; bill plumbeous, pale at the gape 
and on the greater portion of the lower mandible ; mouth flesh-colour ; 
legs and feet plumbeous green ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 5'5 inches, tail 1'8, wing 3*2, tarsus '55, bill from gape '7, The 
female is nearly as large as the male. 
The Burmese Grey-headed Pied Woodpecker is very generally distributed 
over British Burmah. Both Mr. Hume and Mr. Blyth record it from 
Arrakan. I have procured it at various points in Pegu, at Thayetmyo, 
Pegu Town and in the country extending between this place and Tonghoo. 
Dr. Armstrong found it at Elephant Point. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay pro- 
cured it in Karennee at 4000 feet elevation ; and both Mr. Davison and 
Capt. Bingham found it in every part of Tenasserim that they visited. 
My own men secured several specimens at the extreme southern point of 
this Division. 
To the north of Burmah it has been noted from Cachar, Tipperah and 
Assam. Mr. Hume states that it is found throughout the Malay penin- 
sula down to Singapore, and Dr. Tiraud gives it from Cochin China. 
This small Woodpecker is found in brushwood and small jungle. I did 
not succeed in finding its nest. 
