. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . kes and Jerdon—only lately discriminated from the allied P. aianthogenys of the Himalayas. This isabundant in Coorg, on the slopes of the Neelgherries, and indeed all along the rangeof the Western Ghats. P. melanolophus I have only seen in Goomsoor. ORD. IJVSESSOMES. FAM. PICIBJE. GEN. PIC US. PLATE XLVII. PJCUS CEYLONUS. RED WOODPECKER. Synon.—P. ceylonus, Forst., P. negledus, Wagler. I HAVE figured this interesting species of Woodpecker from t
. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . kes and Jerdon—only lately discriminated from the allied P. aianthogenys of the Himalayas. This isabundant in Coorg, on the slopes of the Neelgherries, and indeed all along the rangeof the Western Ghats. P. melanolophus I have only seen in Goomsoor. ORD. IJVSESSOMES. FAM. PICIBJE. GEN. PIC US. PLATE XLVII. PJCUS CEYLONUS. RED WOODPECKER. Synon.—P. ceylonus, Forst., P. negledus, Wagler. I HAVE figured this interesting species of Woodpecker from the island ofCeylon, where it was procured by Lord A. Hay, and where it appears to be not uncom-mon, replacing (says Mr. Blyth) the common P. bengalensis of the Indian continent,to which it assimilates in structure, belonging to the same division Brachyptermts. Description.—Above of a dull crimson colour, brighter on the head and crest—beneath white, with brown markings; streak from the eye and two narrow stripes,one from above the gape, and the other from the edge of the lower mandible, darkbrown. Bill yellow. Legs cinereous. rialeXLVIL. IHler lith Reeve (lorLclorL) imp. FICDS ZEYLONUS FlateXLVm.
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