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yunpipicus auritus, Bp. Conxp. T'olucr. Zi/r/nd. p. 8 (18o4). 

 Breopipo variegata, Cab. ^- Heine, Mits. Hein. Th. iv. p. 54 (1863). 

 Bieopipo auiita, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 59 (186;J). 

 Yungipicus sondaicus, Blyth, Ibis, 1806, p. ;i54 ; id. op. cit. 1870, 



p. 163. 

 ricu9 auritus, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 41 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 183, no. 8575 (1870). 



[yugipicT , ... 



Ibis, 1879, p. 165; Sharpe, t. c. 1879, p. 240; Vorderm. List B. 



Java, uo. 52 (1884). 

 Ymiui])icus caiiicapillua {non Blyth), Tiraut, Ois. B.-Cochinch. p. 88 



(I87i)). 

 Ivn.npicus auritus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 42 ; Gould, B. Asia, vi. 

 " pi xxix., S S (1883) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 242 ; Bias. Ver- 



Imndl. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, p. 29 (1883) ; id. J. f. O. 1884, 



p. 223 ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 405. 

 lyuo-ipicus frater*, Salvad. ^ Giyl. Atti della R. Accad. Sc. Tor. 



XX. p. 824 (1885). 



Adult male. Above, including wings and tail and their coverts, 

 blackish brown, the entire back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts barred with white; the median and the greater wing- 

 coverts and the quills npon both webs spotted with white ; the 

 central tail-feathers spotted, the lateral ones barred with white ; 

 shafts of quills and of rectrices brown, those of the latter paler at 

 the base ; top of the head brown, the outer edge of the crown, the 

 occiput, nape, and hind neck nearly black ; upon the side of the 

 occiput a scarlet stripe ; nasal plumes buffy white ; sides of the face 

 and neck, chin and throat white ; the ear-coverts and a broad 

 stripe behind, also the malar stripe, dark brown ; entire under 

 surface of the body and under tail-coverts dingy buffy white, broadly 

 striped with brown or dusky brown ; under wing-coverts white 

 spotted with brown ; axillarics white : " irides brownish red ; upper 

 mandible black, lower one on underside greyish white ; legs and feet 

 sepia-green " {H. 0. Forbes). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-65, 

 wing 2-9.T, tail ]"3, tarsus 0-55; toes (without claws)— outer 

 anterior 0-35, outer posterior 0-45, inner anterior 0-27, inner pos- 

 terior 0-2. 



Adult female. Wants the scarlet stripe on the side of the occiput. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-85, tail 1-35, tarsus 

 0-5.5. 



Hah. Malayan Peninsula into Siam and Cochin China; Sumatra, 

 Java, and Borneo, including the island of Labuan. 



* When Count Salvadori Isindlj' sent for my inspection the type of/, frater, 

 I expressed my belief that it was di.stinct from Ey ton's 1. auritus; but a further 

 examination of specimens of the latter species shows me that individuals occur 

 which have the six central tail-feathers unspotted, and others in which tlie outer 

 webs of the primaries are uniform, and I am now of opinion that /. /rater is 

 only an example of /. auritus in which these individual variations are com- 

 bined. 



