242 BULLETIN 186, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 MEIGLYPTES JUGULARIS Blyth 



Black-and-buff Woodpecker 



P[icus] (Mleiglyptes]) jugularts Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, 1845, 



p. 195 (Arakan). 

 Miglyptes jugularis, Gyloenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 230 



(listed) ; Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Hand)., 1916, p. 94 (Pha Kho, Khun 



Tan, Pang Hua Phong) . 

 Meiglyptes jugularis, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 603 (Pha Kho, Khun Tan, 



Pang Hua Phong).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 229 ("Doi Phra 



Chao" [=Doi Saket ?]). 



The black-and-buff woodpecker seems to be a rather uncommon 

 resident of the more eastern lowlands. Eisenhofer sent to Hannover 

 two males from Pha Hing (April 29 and May 11, 1912) and to 

 Stockholm a female from the same place (April 25, 1912). I have 

 examples from a number of localities in Nan Province and a single 

 specimen from Sala Mae Tha (at the western foot of the Khun Tan 

 range) . It has not yet been found anywhere between Sala Mae Tha 

 and the Burmese bank of the Salwin. 



Gyldenstolpe (1916) states that he met with this species in old 

 clearings or open forests, never in thick jungle. My specimens were 

 found in similar locations; where the lowland evergreen was very 

 dense, the birds were seen only along the broader trails. 



Molting adults were taken June 6 and August 6. 



Gyldenstolpe's examples had the irides brown ; the bill black ; the 

 feet and toes olive-green. 



The adult male has the top and sides of the head black, narrowly 

 barred with buff, becoming uniform black on the crest; a broad buffy - 

 white collar on the back and sides of the neck; the scapulars, back, 

 upper tail coverts, and tail black ; the rump buffy white ; the remiges 

 black with small buffy-white spots on either web that become broad 

 buffy-white bars on the innermost secondaries; most of the upper 

 wing coverts buffy white, forming a broad, conspicuous wing stripe ; 

 the feathers of the throat buff, narrowly barred with black ; a short, 

 dull crimson mustachial streak on each side of the head from the base 

 of the mandible ; the under wing coverts buffy white ; the remaining 

 underparts black. The adult female differs from the male only in 

 lacking the red mustachial streaks. 



The buffy tinge which appears on both the black and the white 

 portions of this bird's plumage varies greatly individually and seems 

 to be caused by stain. 



DRYOBATES HYPERYTHRUS HYPERYTHRUS (Vigors) 



Burmese Rufous-bellied Pied Woodpecker 



Picus hyperythrus Vigors, Proc. Comm. Sci. Corr. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 1, 1830- 

 1831 [=1831], p. 23 ("Himalayan Mountains"; type locality restricted to 

 Nepal, by Hartert, Vogel der pal&arktischen Fauna, vol. 2, 1912, p. 925). 



