THE FULVOUS-BREASTED PIED WOODPECKER. 33 
the course of some years^ but it was a nestlings and consequently this 
Woodpecker may not be quite so rare at Bankasoon as is supposed. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula^ and is also found in the islands 
of Sumatra and Borneo. 
(ienus PICUIS, L%nn, 
428. PICUS MACII. 
THE FULVOUS-BREASTED PIED WOODPECKER. 
Picus macei, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d^Kist. Nat. xxvi. p. 80 ; Malh. Mon. Pic. i. p. 96, 
pi. xxiv. fig. 1-4 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 272 ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 25 j 
Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 120 j Cripps, S. F. vii. p. 261 j Hume, S,F. viii. 
p. 87 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 245. Dendrotypes macei, Bl B. Burnt, p. 77. 
Description. — Male. Nasal plumes and forehead brown; the whole of 
the crown of the head crimson; a large triangular patch on the nape 
black j sides of the head and neck nearly meeting behind the nape-patch 
dull white ; upper wing-coverts and upper back black ; the wings, scapulars^ 
interscapulary region^ lower back and rump blacky with bar-like white 
spots; upper tail-coverts and the four central tail-feathers entirely black ; 
the remaining tail-feathers black barred with white; a stripe running 
down the side of the throat from the lower mandible to the side of the 
upper breast black ; lower plumage fulvous, sparingly streaked with black 
on the breast and abdomen and barred with black on the sides of the body 
and flanks; vent and under tail-coverts scarlet. 
The female differs in having those parts of the head black which are 
crimson in the male ; the forehead and nasal plumes are also black. 
This species may be recognized by the whole crown being crimson in the 
male, black in the female ; by the central tail-feathers being unspotted 
black ; by the sides of the head and the throat being fawn-coloured, not 
white ; and by the lower plumage being very faintly streaked and barred 
with brown. 
Bill plumbeous dusky, grey-horny at base; feet greenish plumbeous. 
{Scully) 
Length 7*5 inches, tail 3, wing 4'1, tarsus '7, bill from gape 1*2. The 
female is of much the same size. 
The Fulvous -breasted Pied Woodpecker was received by Mr. Blyth from 
both the Arrakan and Tenasserim Divisions. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay met 
with it on the Karin hills at an elevation of 3000 feet and in Karennee at 
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