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and in many females it perhaps remains permanently black, 
while in others it changes sooner or later to red. This I have 
witnessed in a caged specimen, besides having repeatedly 
obtained them with the bill in every stage of progress in 
changing from black to red. The name P. ponticerianus is 
founded on error, as the species does not inhabit the Indian 
Peninsula. I am tolerably well acquainted with it, having 
spent a month in forests where, together with P. rosa, it is 
most numerous, and where a few of them occasionally con¬ 
tributed to our fare in the shape of a stew. 
157. Picus MACH. 
This, with others, appertains to the division Dendrotypes, 
Cabanis, the rest being P. analis, Horsf. (P. pectoralis, nobis), 
from Java, P. atratus, nobis (J. A. S. B. xviii. 802, xxviii. 412), 
from the higher Tenasserim mountains, P. andamanensis, nobis 
(J. A. S. B. xxviii. 412), from the Andaman Islands and also 
Sumatra, D. nesiotes , Cab. & Heine, from Formosa, and (in my 
opinion) P. brunneifrons, Vigors, from the Himalaya. There 
must surely be a mistake about P. macii occurring in Ceylon ! 
158. Picus scindianus. 
This, with P. medius and P. syriacus, if not also P. khan (Ibis, 
1864, p. 400), forms the division Dendrocoptes, Cabanis. 
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160. Picus mahrattensis. 
This, with the slightly differing P. blanfordi, nobis (J. A. S. B. 
xxxii. 75), from Upper Pegu, constitutes the division Liopopo , 
Cabanis. 
164. Yungipicus hardwickii. 
Mr. Wallace obtained the true Y. moluccensis in Lombok; 
and Hr. Jerdon's supposed moluccensis from the Indo-Malayan 
province will now stand as Y. sondaicus , Wallace. 
165. Hemicercus cordatus. 
Constantly smaller than H. canente of the Indo-Chinese 
countries. Hr. Jerdon’s <c pretty little H. concretus” divides 
into H. concretus of Java, H. sordidus (H. hartlaubi, Malherbe), 
of the Malayan Peninsula, and H. coccometopus, Reich., of 
Borneo. 
