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CATALOGUE. 
nape ; the wings are shorter, and there is a difference in the barring 
of the tail-feathers, and in the form of the tips of the more outer 
ones, which in the Indian bird are more rounded, or somewhat trun- 
cated, with a slight emargination at the tip of the shaft, while in the 
Javanese bird they attenuate, and are obtusely pointed; the white 
bars also assume more the appearance of transverse bands in the 
Javanese species, and of separated round spots in that of the Indian, 
while the outermost feather is in the former tipped with white, and 
the penultimate has an all but terminal white bar, both these feathers 
in the Indian bird being broadly black-tipped, with a more inter- 
rupted white bar above." — (Blyth.) 
991. YUNGIPICUS PYGMJEUS, Vigors Sp. 
Picus pygmaeus, Vigors, P. Z. S. (1831), p. 44. JBlgth, 
J. A. S. Beng. XIY. p. 197; XYI. p. 466; Ann. 
N. H. XX. p. 321 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 63. 
Bonap., O. G. Av. p. 135. 
Picus trisulensis, Lichtenstein. 
Picus Mitchellii, Malherle, Bev. Zool. (1849),^. 530. 
Dendrocopus moluccensis, apud Hodgs., Gray's Zool. 
Misc. (1844),^. 85. 
Picus Zizuki, apud Hodgson^ s Cat. B. ofNep.p. 116. 
A. B. ? (type specimens of P. Mitchelliy Malh.). 
From Blagrave's Collection. 
c. d. e. ^ ? . Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
" The male of this species has a crimson occipital crescent, the 
lateral halves of which unite only in fine old specimens ; in younger 
examples this crimson is confined to a mere lateral tuft, and I have 
seen specimens in every degree intermediate. Forehead and crown 
ashy-brown, the crimson of the occiput surrounded with black exter- 
nally, forming a streak over each eye, continued to meet and expand 
posteriorly. Another and brownish-black streak, more or less deve- 
loped, passes backward from below the eye ; and between this and the 
last is a large triangular white patch on the sinciput. Upper parts 
black, with white cross-bands on the back, and the usual rows of 
white spots on the wings ; four middle tail-feathers wholly black, and 
the next white only on its exterior margin ; outermost and penulti- 
mate tail-feathers barred on the outer web with white, and having a 
single white bar, and sometimes two, crossing the feather towards its 
