


344 ~ Lord Walden on the late Colonel Tickell’s 
uniform black, and not marked with white, and by the bold 
dark brown or black mesial stripes on the pectoral feathers. 
Picus majoroides is represented witha large white patch on 
the middle of the back, which is not quite true to nature, the 
nape, back, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts in this species 
being uniform black. 
In Picus mahrattensis (auro-cristatus, Tickell, J. A.S.B. 
- 1833, p. 579, 2) neither the crimson occiput of the male nor 
the yellow occiput of the female is represented in the plate. 
The fact that Hemicercus canente 2 has the forehead creamy 
buff, and not the male, is confirmed by the figure given of 
“an undoubted female” by Colonel Tickell. 
The little-known Meiglyptes jugularis is described and 
figured from a Tenasserim example of a so-called male; but 
the red cheek-stripe is omitted. 
Having figured and described individuals of the Tenke: 
serim race of Tiga shori (T. intermedia, Blyth), Colonel 
Tickell gives a plate and description of a distinct species of 
the same genus, obtained in the forests on the Teesta river, 
Sikim. Under the title of Chrysonotus biddulphi it is thus 
described :—“ Iris labelled ‘hazel.’ Bull and legs blackish 
neutral. Crown, crest, and entire nape, as well as lower 
back, silky scarlet. Forehead, ramus, and throat, and all 
foreneck pale brown. Rest of face andneck white. A black 
line from hinder rim of eye down across the auriculars to the 
scarlet of nape, which it borders-for a short space. Another 
line from rictus down latero-frontal neck. Another along 
lower edge of ramus, joining the rictal stripe at end of ramus. 
And another branching from the last midway on ramus and 
- joining the rictal-stripe lower down neck. All breast and 
lower parts as in shorii, but with browner edges to the fea- 
thers; upper parts the same, but. a broad black band runs 
across top of back and separates the scarlet and white of nape 
and neck from the gold-yellow of upper parts. Wing 6), 
Tail 43 (beyond wing 1$). Billl}. Tarsus1. Inn. toe 14.” 
This form does not appear to have been since recognized. 
Cyanops franklini, from Mooleyit range, Tenasserim, is 
described and figured with the superciliary stripe unspotted 
black, the typical form. 

