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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
The female differs in wanting the red cheek-patch. 
Bill bluish white^ black on the culmen and tip of both mandibles; 
mouth bluish black ; eyelids plumbeous ; iris dark hazel-brown ; legs dark 
plumbeous ; claws bluish. 
Length 20*5 inches^ tail 7*5^ wing 9*4^ tarsus 1*5^ bill from gape 3. The 
female is considerably smaller. 
The Great Slaty Woodpecker is found in most of the large forests of 
Burmah. Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan ; and I procured it on the 
hills of that Division. In Pegu I met with it in the evergreen forests of 
the Pegu hills on the eastern spurs ; and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay states that 
he found it abundant between these hills and Tonghoo^ as well as on the 
Karin hills to the east of the Sittang river. It is likely to occur in 
Southern Pegu ; but I do not remember to have met with it anywhere 
except in the north. Both Mr. Davison and Capt. Bingham record it 
from Tenasserim^ over which Division it appears to be uniformly dis- 
tributed. 
It extends southwards through the Malay peninsula to Sumatra^ Java 
and Borneo; and Dr. Tiraud gives it from Cochin China. To the north 
it has been obtained in the Khasia hills by Col. Godwin- Austen ; and it 
occurs at the foot of the Himalayas in Oudh and Nipal. 
This Woodpeckei% unlike most others, is usually found in small flocks. 
As far as I have observed it_, it appears to be restricted to the densest 
forests^ frequenting large trees and being extremely wary. Capt. Bingham 
found the nest in Tenasserim in April. The eggs_, two in number, were 
laid in a hole in a large wood-oil tree which had been blown down and 
served as a foot-bridge across a river. 
Genus HEMICERCUS, Swains. 
426. HEMICEECUS CANENTE. 
THE BURMESE HEART-SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
Picus canente, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 215, pi, 73 ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 11. 
Micropicus canente, Malh. Mon. Pic. i. p. 190, pi. xlii. fig. 1-3. Hemicercus 
canente, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 280 (part.) ; Hume., S. F. iii. p. 61 ; Bl. Wald. 
B. Burm. p. 74 ; Inylis ^ Hmne, S. F. v. p. 25 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 127 ; 
Htime, S. F. yiii. p. 87, ix. p. 112 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 161. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown^ a bushy occipital crest^ sides of 
the head and neck, back and scapulars black ; the forehead and front of 
the crown minutely speckled with yellowish white ; rump and all the wing- 
coverts next the body bufly yellowish; the remaining wing-coverts and 
