. Birds. Birds. 32 piciDjS. Length 10'5; tail 3-9 ; wing 5-2; tarsus 1 ; bill from gape'l"2. Distribution. Common in the Pegu hills between Thayet Myo and Toungngoo, also throughout Tenasserim. The most southern locality recorded is Kussoom, a little north of Junk Ceylon. Habits, ifc. This "Woodpecker inhabits both deciduous and ever- green forest, but is chiefly found on and amongst bamboos. According to Davison it occurs singly or in pairs, never in parties. Genus HYPOPICUS, Bonap., 185,4. Bill slender, compressed, truncated ; culmen straight, angulate ; nasal ridge strongly marked
. Birds. Birds. 32 piciDjS. Length 10'5; tail 3-9 ; wing 5-2; tarsus 1 ; bill from gape'l"2. Distribution. Common in the Pegu hills between Thayet Myo and Toungngoo, also throughout Tenasserim. The most southern locality recorded is Kussoom, a little north of Junk Ceylon. Habits, ifc. This "Woodpecker inhabits both deciduous and ever- green forest, but is chiefly found on and amongst bamboos. According to Davison it occurs singly or in pairs, never in parties. Genus HYPOPICUS, Bonap., 185,4. Bill slender, compressed, truncated ; culmen straight, angulate ; nasal ridge strongly marked, but low down near the commissure and not extending more than halfway along the bill; nostrils basal, nasal plumes short; gonys long, chin-angle near to the gape, much concealed by bristles ; fourth (outer posterior) toe slightly longer than third (outer anterior). Head scarcely crested. Outer pair of tail-feathers shorter than coverts. Plumage soft, black and white above, chestnut below ; crown of head red in males, black spotted with white in females. Only two species are known, one ifihabits the Himalayas, the other Northern China. 960. Hypopicus hyperythrus. The Eufous-belUed Pied Woodpecker. Picus hyperythrus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 23; Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 196; id. Cat. p. 63 ; Blanford, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 43. Hypopicus hyperythrus, Bonap. Comp. Vohmr. Zyffud. p. 8; Horsf. ^ M. Cat. ii, p. 675; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 276; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 7 ; J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 155; Sume, Cat. no. 161 ; id. S. F. xi, p. 59; Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 199; Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii. p. 301: Sharpe, Yark. Miss., Aves, p. Pig. 11.—Head of H. hyperythrus, 5. Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes black, white at the base ; base of forehead, sides of face, and chin grey (mixed black and white); lores, a stripe below the eye and a spot above and behind the eye pure white; crown and nape crimson ; upper plumage from neck to rump broadly barred
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