. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . pears littleknown at present, and the Sukhurtah appears unknown now. In another work sent to meby Mr. Blyth for perusal, the Besra is thus divided.â1st, The Khund Besra proba-bly the same as the Khandesra.â2nd, Khura Besra, perhaps the Besra proper.â3rd, TheJutesura, most likely the Chateesrah.â4th, Bhagureenaâthis I never heard ofâit may be anative synonym of the Sukhurtah.â5th, Khod.â6th, Khur Besra.â7th, Manik Besra. Istrongly suspect that th
. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . pears littleknown at present, and the Sukhurtah appears unknown now. In another work sent to meby Mr. Blyth for perusal, the Besra is thus divided.â1st, The Khund Besra proba-bly the same as the Khandesra.â2nd, Khura Besra, perhaps the Besra proper.â3rd, TheJutesura, most likely the Chateesrah.â4th, Bhagureenaâthis I never heard ofâit may be anative synonym of the Sukhurtah.â5th, Khod.â6th, Khur Besra.â7th, Manik Besra. Istrongly suspect that these three names are only different appellations for the same hawkwhich from the description given of the Manik Besra is undoubtedly the Astur Indicus ofHodgson, called G6r Besra in the South of India, which is also again mentioned shortlyafterwards in the same work as the Chooryalee, a name which Hodgson in his descriptionof Astur Indicus gives as its name in the Eastern Tarai. I trust to be enabled in the couise of the present series of Illustrations to give adi-awing of the second plumage of the Besra from a living ORD. INSESSORES. TRIBEâSCANSORES. FAIL PICID^.GEN. PICUS. PLATE V. PICUS HODGSONIIâJerdon. WHITE-BACKED WOODPECKER. Synon.âHemilophus Hodgsonii, Jerdon, No. 213, Cat. (with coloured figure) MadrasJom-n. of Lit. and Science, No. xxvii, page 215. This fine Woodpecker is found in the lofly forests of Western India, but is byno means common, and I have never yet been enabled to procure a fresh specimen, as it isextremely wary. Native Shikarees however occasionally shoot it, and it is by no means un-common to see it in collections formed by Gentlemen on the West coast. Of its geographicaldistribution out of the Peninsula, I am at present ignorant. Description.âHead, crest, and stripe from the lower mandible crimson, lower partof the back and middle of the belly white, the rest of the plumage deep black, biU. black,legs plumbeous. Length of one sp
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