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CATALOGUE. 
" Inhabits India generally, chiefly the hill forests, being rare in 
the plains : also Assam, [Bootan,] Sylhet, Arracan, Tenasserim, and 
Malayan peninsula southward as far as Malacca." — (Blyth.) 
Mr. Hodgson remarks that the "young of this species at first resem- 
ble the female, and the males do not attain their perfect plumage till 
the second or third year. It breeds once a year, — in May. It moults 
also but once, between June and October, both inclusive. Weight, 
8 to 9 ounces." 
" In Southern India this handsome "Woodpecker is found only in 
the dense and lofty forests of the west coast, occasionally seen below 
the Grhauts, but most numerous on the more elevated wooded regions, 
and frequently seen on the summit of the Neilgherries, in the thick 
woods there. Irides yellow; bill blackish lead-colour; feet plumbeous." 
— (Jerdon.) 
948. CHBYSOGOLAPTES STBICTUS, Horsfield Sp. 
Picus strictus, Sorsf.^ Trans, lAnn. Soc. XIII. p. 176 
(1821). Latham, Hist of B. III. p. 352. 
Chrysocolaptes strictus, G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. 
p. 436. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 121. Blyth, Cat. 
B. Mus. A. S. Beng. App. p. xviii. 
Picus peralaimus (ecc Java), Wagler, Syst. Av. Sp. 93. 
Picus goensis, apud Vigors, App. Mem. Baffles, p. 668. 
Platitk, Java, Horsfield. • 
A. B» ^ (type). Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
Genus Brachypternus, Strickland, P. Z. S. (1841), jo. 31. 
Beahmapicos, Malherhe (1850). 
949. BBACHYPTERNUS AUBANTIUS, Linn. Sp, 
Picus aurantius. Linn., S. W. I. p. 174. Lath., Sist. of 
B. 111. p. 367. F. (B.) Hamilton, MS. 1. p. 28. 
Brachypternus aurantius, StricTcland, P. Z. S. (1841), 
p. 31. Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIV. p. 194 ; XV. 
pp. 17, 282 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 56. 
G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. p. 441. Hodgson, Cat. 
B. of Nepal, p. 117. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 120. 
Tytler, Ann. N. H XIII. n. s. p. 367. Layard, 
Ann. JSr. H. XIII. n. s.p. 448. 
Picus bengalensis. Linn., S. JV. 1. p. 175 (PI. Enl. 695). 
