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Adult female, U.S.N.M. No. 174691, Bunguran Island, June 27, 

 1900. "Feet dull olive." 



Adult female, U.S.N.M. No. 174695, Bunguran Island, July 16, 

 1900. 



The adult female differs from the adult male in color only in the 

 absence of the red malar stripe. The juvenal female is very similar 

 to the adult, except for being lighter and more grayish and buffy 

 instead of more olivaceous and yellowish. 



Juvenal female, U.S.N.M. No. 174692, Bunguran Island, June 27, 

 1900. "Upper mandible black; lower mandible leaden; feet dark 

 olive brown." 



Juvenal [female], U.S.N.M. No. 174693, Bunguran Island, June 

 27, 1900. 



The two adult males. No. 174690, taken on June 27, and No. 174694, 

 July 16, are molting both wing quills and contour feathers; one of the 

 adult females, No. 174695, July 16, is molting only the contour 

 feathers; but the other adult female, No. 174691, June 27, shows no 

 indication of feather renewal. Both the juvenal females, taken on 

 June 27, are in process of molting the contour feathers, but not the 

 rectrices or remiges. 



Measurements are given in Table 11. 



Table 11. — Measurements of specimens of Meiglyptes tukki azaleua 



» Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



I Type. 



According to the available material there seem to be 7 recognizable 

 races of Meiglyptes tukki, as given below : 

 1. Meiglyptes tukki tukki (Lesson). 



Picus tukki Lesson, Rev. Zool., vol. 2, p. 167, June, 1839. ("Sumatra.") 

 P[icus]. luridus Nitzsch, System der Pterylographie, p. 137, 1840 (footnote). 



(" Sumatrensischcn.") 

 Meiglyptes tucci Bruggemann, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, vol. 5, p. 455, 1877. 



(Nom. emend, pro Meiglyptes ttikki Lesson.) 



Geographic distribution. — Sumatra, and the neighboring islands of 

 Banka and Billiton. 



