THE BURMESE HEART-SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 31 
the tail-coverts black, very narrowly edged with huffy yellow ; primaries, 
secondaries and tail black ; tertiaries huffy yellow, each feather with a 
heart-shaped black spot near the tip ; chin, cheeks and throat yellowish 
buff j breast, abdomen and sides of the body olive slate-colour ; vent and 
under tail- coverts black, each feather narrowly tipped with yellowish ; 
under wing- coverts huffy yellow. 
female resembles the male, but has the forehead and crown of the 
head huffy yellowish. 
Young birds of both sexes are at first like the adult female ; the young 
male commences to assume the black crown in August. 
Iris reddish ; bill black, plumbeous at the gape ; legs and feet greenish 
black. 
Length 6*4 inches, tail 2, wing 3'8, tarsus '7, bill from gape 1. The 
female is rather smaller. 
H. cordatus, from Southern India, is barely separable from the present 
species ; it is slightly smaller, has less huffy white on the wing, and the 
specks on the head of the male are more conspicuous. 
The Burmese Heart-spotted Woodpecker occurs locally throughout 
British Burmah, being very abundant in some places and apparently absent 
in others. Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan; and I obtained one 
specimen in that Division near Nyoungyo, on the summit of the hills. I 
did not observe it in Northern Pegu ; but in the south, on the hills just 
north of Pegu Town, I found it very abundant. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
got it on the Karin hills east of Tonghoo. Mr. Davison states that it is 
generally distributed throughout Tenasserim ; and Capt. Bingham mentions 
it as not being very plentiful in the Thoungyeen valley. 
It extends south a short distance down the Malay peninsula, Mr. Darling 
having procured it at Kussoom. It will probably be found in the Indo- 
Burmese countries, for it is recorded from Cachar in Eastern Bengal by 
Mr. Inglis. This appears to be, so far as is at present known, its northern 
limit. 
This species is met with in clearings and thin forest-country. Capt. 
Bingham found the nest in Tenasserim in March. The eggs, two in 
number, were placed in a hole in a teak tree about twelve feet from the 
ground. 
