252 BULLETIN 186, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



3,000 to 3,500 feet. The irregular appearances of the bird on Doi 

 Suthep (2,200 to 2,900 feet) suggest that the species is more or less of 

 a wanderer when breeding. 



Where some decaying giant tree stands at the edge of a jungle 

 clearing, one may meet with a party (as many as five or six) of these 

 huge woodpeckers. Certainly they cannot be overlooked, for they 

 follow one another from tree to tree with rattling wings and a con- 

 stant harsh screaming of the syllable woik. When seen flying high 

 above the forest, they appear to be dark, crowlike birds with a light- 

 colored patch on the nape (an optical illusion due to the remarkably 

 constricted neck). Specimens taken by me had fed upon ants and 

 termites. 



An adult male had the irides dark brown ; the eyelids and orbital 

 skin slaty; the maxilla bone-white, with the culmen and tip slaty 

 black ; the mandible with the tip slaty black and the base plumbeous, 

 otherwise bone-white; the interior of the mouth slaty; the feet and 

 toes plumbeous; the claws horny slate. An immature male had the 

 irides gray -blue ; the orbital skin slaty ; the maxilla blue-gray, with 

 the culmen slaty, the tip and the edges of the commissure dead white ; 

 the mandible blue-gray ; the feet and toes gray-blue ; the claws dark 

 slate. Gyldenstolpe notes that a male had the feet and toes dark 

 olive-green. 



The male has a broad patch of bright crimson on each side of the 

 head below the eye ; the chin, throat, and f oreneck vivid buffy yellow, 

 more or less suffused with rose, especially on the f oreneck; the rest of 

 the plumage ashy slate-gray, the scalelike feathers of the head and nape 

 tipped with silvery gray, the feathers of the underparts similarly 

 (though less distinctly) tipped. The female differs in lacking the 

 crimson malar markings and the rosy tinge on the throat and f oreneck. 



PICUMNUS INNOMINATUS MALAYORUM Hartert 



Malayan Speckled Piculet 



Picumnus innominatus malayorum Hartert, Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna, 



vol. 2, 1912, p. 937 (Gunong Ijau, Perak, Malay Peninsula). 

 Picumnus innominatus malayorum, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad 



Handl., 1916, p. 97 (Khun Tan) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 605 (Khun Tan). 

 Vivia innominata malayorum, Deignan, Journ. Siarn Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931^ 



p. 158 (Doi Suthep). — Chasen and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. 



Suppl., 1932, p. 236 (Doi Suthep) .—Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. 



Suppl., 1936, p. 97 (Doi Suthep). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1934, p. 253 (Doi Suthep, Doi Chiang Dao).— Rtley, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 243 (Doi Langka, Doi Hua Mot). 



The speckled piculet has so far been recorded only from the higher 

 peaks of the Thanon Thong Chai and Khun Tan ranges. On Doi 

 Ang Ka I found it common in the evergreen from 4,400 to 5,500 feet ; 

 on Doi Suthep, from 2,700 to 4,600 feet, occasionally down to 2,200 



