320 riciD.T5. 



the extreme upper back very dark brown ; the malar stripe 

 blacker ; the white spots on the wings smaller, those on the outer 

 webs of the outer primaries four in number, and the bars on the 

 wings, also the bars on the back, narrower ; the striations on the 

 nnderparts blacker. Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0"63, wing 

 3-2, tail 1-1)5, tarsus 0'55 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior U'37, 

 outer posterior 0-45, inner anterior 0'3, inner posterior 0"22. 



Adult male. Differs from the adult female in having a red 

 stripe on the side of the occiput. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 

 0-62, wing 3-03, tail I'G, tarsus 0-5. 



Hah. Loo Choo Islands (N^aha). 



a. 2ad.sk. Great Loo Choo Island (//. Henry Seebobm, Esq. [^P.]. 

 Fri/er). (Type of species.) 



6. lyngipicus aurantiiventris. 



Picas (Bfeopipo) aurantiiventris, Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, 



iii. p. 524 (1868). 

 Ij'ngipicus aurantiiventris, Salvad. Uccelli di Borneo, p. 41 , tav. iv. 



fig. 2 (1874); Haryitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 29; Gould, £. Asia, vi. 



pi. xxiii., c? 2 (1S82). _ 

 Yungipieus aurantiiventris, Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 240. 

 lyngopicus aurantiiventris, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 792. 



Achtlt male. Back and rump bi'oadly barred black and white ; 

 ujiper tail-coverts black, with a broad intermarginal squamate 

 marking of white ; scapulars, wing-coverts, and quills black, the 

 scapulars barred with white at the tip, the greater coverts and 

 the quills on both webs spotted with white ; shafts black ; the 

 six central tail-feathers uniform and black or brownish, the lateral 

 ones dark brown, margined or barred with buffy white ; shafts 

 clear brown with black tips ; top of the head ashy grey, the outer 

 edge of the crown, the occiput, nape, and hind neck black ; u])on 

 the side of the occiput a streak of scarlet : sides of the face and 

 neck, throat, and fore neck white, the malar region and front of 

 neck broadly striped with dusky brown ; ear-coverts dark brown, with 

 a broad black stripe behind ; under surface of the body and under 

 tail-coverts fulvescent, the chest and breast washed with orange or 

 reddish, and the whole striped with brownish black ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, the former spotted and varied with 

 black: " irides bluish white'' {Doria). Total length 5-3 inches, 

 culmen 0*72, wing 3-15, tail 1"2, tarsus 0'57 ; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 0"4, outer posterior 0'47, inner anterior 0*33, inner 

 posterior 0*2. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of the 

 scarlet feathers on the side of the occiput, and in having the under- 

 parts less rich in colour. Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0'G7, 

 wing 3-1, tail 1'4, tarsus 0-57. 



JJab. Borneo, probably confined to the northern pait of the 

 island. 



