CATALOGUE. 
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981. PICUS SCINDEANUS, Gould, MS. 
a. b. ? . Shikarpore. From Griffith's Collection. 
c. c?. Scinde. Presented by Dr. H. Gould, 1855. 
P. scindeanus, n. s. — Somewhat allied to P. mediios of Europe, but 
is smaller, having the whole of the crown in the male red, as in that 
species ; but the sides, instead of being suffused with rosy red, are 
dirty white : there is also a broad streak of black running from base 
of the lower mandible down sides of the neck. 
Length 7^ in., of wing 4|- in., tail 3f in., bill to gape 1^^ in., 
tarse f of an inch. 
982. PICU8 MAJ0R0IDE8, Hodgson. 
Picus majoroides, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc. (1844), 
p. 85 ; Cat. B. ofNep.p. 115 ; Ap'p.p. 155. 
Dendrocopus darjellensis, Blyth, J. A. S. JBeng. XIV. 
p. 196 (1845). 
Picus darjellensis, JBlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. XVI. p. 466 ; 
Ann. N. H. XX. p. 321 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 62. G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. III. App. p. 21. 
Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 136. 
Pious Hodgsonii, Malherhe. 
Hodgson's Spotted Woodpecker. 
a. h. c. d. S ?. Nepal (type). Presented by B. H. 
Hodgson, Esq. 
E. F. (J $ . Darjeeling. From Pearson's Collection. 
g. ^. Darjeeling (P. darjellensis^ Blyth). From the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
The adult male of P. majoroides has a scarlet occipital band more 
than twice as broad as in P. major, and is further distinguished by 
having broad black central stripes to the feathers of the abdomen, 
flanks, and sides of the breast, and by the black moustachial stripe 
not being continued round the ear-coverts ; but the fulvescent hue of 
the latter is continuous with a broad dull golden-fulvous band on the 
sides of the neck : the lower tail-coverts are of a weak scarlet, and 
not crimson. 
"Very common at Darjeeling and Nepal. 
983. PICUS LEUCONOTUS, Bechstein. 
Picus leuconotus, Bechstein, Nat. Beutschl. II. t. 25,/! 1. 
Wagler, Syst. Av. Pic. sp. 19. Gould, B. of Eur. 
