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till its knocking resounds from almost every Palmyra tope in the 
Jaffna peninsula. In these trees it likewise breeds, excavating large 
holes in the male trees, they being generally softer than the female. 
In the jungle and among the cocoa-nut plantations of the south and 
central portion of the island, it is entirely replaced by Br. ceylonus^ 
Torster." — (E. L. Layard.) 
950. BBACHYPTEBNUS CHBYSONOTUS, Lesson Sp, 
Picus chrysonotus. Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p.220 (1831). 
Brachypternus chrysonotus, Bonap.y C. G. Av. p. 121. 
Brachypternopicus chrysonotus, Malherbe, Bev. Zool. 
(1845),^. 404. 
Brachypternopicus puncticoUis, MalJierhe, MS. Mus. 
East-Ind. Comp. {adult). 
? Brachypternus micropus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIV. 
p. 194 (1845). Jerdon, Madr. Journ. XIII. p. 139. 
A. B. $ . {B. puncticoUis, Malh., type). South 
India. Donor unknown. 
" Pound in Southern India, wherever there is plenty of wood or 
high jungle, and even in groves and gardens in the neighbourhood 
of well- wooded towns, as I have seen in the jN'orthern Circars and 
Carnatic. On the bare table-land I have not observed it, but is 
tolerably plentiful on the west coast, and in the wooded regions on 
the summit of the Grhauts. It is generally seen single or in pairs. 
Irides crimson; bill blackish ; legs plumbeous." — (Jerdon.) 
951. BBACHYPTEBNUS CEYLON US, Forster Sp. 
Picus ceylonus, Forster, N. Nat. Forsch. 13, pi. 4. 
Brachypternus ceylonus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XY. 
p. 282 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 56. Jerdon, III. 
Ind. Orn. t. 47. Layard, Ann. N. H. XIII. p. 449. 
Picus erythronotus, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. H. N. XXVII. 
p. 73. 
Brachypternus erythronotus, G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. 
p. 441. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 121. 
Picus neglectus, Wagler, Sysf. Av. Bic. Sp. 99 (1827). 
Picus bengalensis (var.). Lath., Hist, of B. III. ^. 349. 
Kaakalla and Kabeeella, Ceylon, Layard. 
a. $ . Drawing. Ceylon. From Jonville's Collection. 
