lof) PICIDiE. 



Pious hirumliiinceus, /3, Gin, Si/.st. Nat. i. p. 426, $ (1788) ; Lath. 



hid. (h-n. i. ]). 227, S (1790). 

 riciis liinmdinacous *, Temm. Cat. Si/.st. p. 62 (1807) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 87, d (1818)"; id. ^ Bonn. Enc. Meth. p. 1315, 



c? (1823) ; Waf/l. St/sf. Av. Picus, sp. 64, S {nee fcemina) (1827) ; 



id. Isis, 1829, p. 515 ; Siindev. Comp. Av. Picin. p. 50 (1866). 

 Picus occi]ntalis, Talenc, Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 172, 5 (1826) ; Less. 



rraitc,i.-[i. 223 (1831). 

 Pic-iis iscliuorhynchos, Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 66, cj (1827). 

 Picus uieropirostris, Wagl. Si/st. Ar. Picus, sp. 65, j (1827). 

 Melauerjies nieiopirostris, B]). P. Z. S. 1837, p. 120; Grai/, Geyi. B. 



ii. ]). 444 (1846) ; Bj). Consp. Gen. Ar. i. p. 115 (1850) ;' Beichenb. 



Scans. Picince. p. 384, no. 888 (1854) ; Gmij, List Picid. Brit. 



Mus. p. 119 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 202, no. 8826 (1870). 

 Centui'us hirundinaceus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 442 (1846) ; Cab. in 



Schomb. Beis. GiaVm. iii. p. 714 (1848). 

 Mplampicos hirundinaceus, Ilalh. N. Classif., Mem. Aead. Metz, 



1848-49, p. 304. 

 Melanerpes hirundinaceus, Bp. Cimsj). Gen. Av. i. p. 116, 5 (1850); 



Sclat. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 400 ; Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 248 (1870) ; Tacz. 



P. Z. S. 1874, p. 546 ; Pelz. Verhandl. k.-k. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. 



Wien, 1882, p. 448. 

 Tripsurus saucius, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 76 (1854). 

 Phymatohlepliarus hirundinaceus, Beiehenb. Scans. Picince, p. 379, 



no. 876, pi. dcxli. fig-. 4277, c? (1854). 

 Phymatohlepliarus ischnorhynchos, Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 379, 



no. 877 (1854). 

 Tripsurus hirundinaceus, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zi/yod. p. 10, no. 209 



(1854). 

 Tripsurus meropirostris, Bp. Consj). Volucr. Zyyod. p. 10, no. 212 



(1854). 

 Melanerpes cruentatus, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 161 ; id. Cat. Amer. 



B. p. 341, no. 2040 (1862) ; id. Sf Sale. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 197; iid. 



0/). «Y. 1807, ])p. 587, 753 ; Grai/, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 118 



(1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 201, no. 8825 (1870) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. 



P.Z.S. 1873, p. 291; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100(1873); 



iid. P. Z. S. 1875, ]). 237 ; iid. op. cit. 1879, p. 632 ; Salv. Cat. 



Strickl. Coll. p. 398, no. 1947 (1882); Tacz. P. Z.S. 1882, p. 43 ; 



id. Orn. Pcrov, iii. p. 89 (1884). 

 Melampicus hirundinaceus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 192, pi. xcviii. figs. 4 



cJ ad., 5$ ad., (i S juv. (1862). 

 Melampicus meropirostris, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 197 (1862). 



Adult male. General colour glossy blue-black, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts white ; the middle of the breast, the abdomen, 

 and a large quadrate patch on the crown vermilion : a yellowish- 

 white superciliary stripe extending to the nape, which is gokleu 

 yellow ; the inner webs of the quills more or less spotted « ith white, 

 and the base of the inner webs of the central pair of tail-feathers 

 spotted or margined with white ; shafts of quills and of tail-feathers 

 black, the central pair of the latter white at the base ; the sides of 



* Some ornithologists refer Pkus hiruiulinareus of Linnspus to the present 

 species ; but the brief diagnosis and synonymy given by that author (Syst. Nat. 

 i. p. 174, 17fi(i) do not seem to warrant this, and I have no alternative but to 

 leave it an open question. 



