22. iTNGiPicus. 335 



dusky ; underparts dull yellowish white, faintly streaked with dusky 

 brown ; under tail-coverts j^ale dusky Lrown, edged with dingy 

 yellowish white; under wing-coverts brown varied with white: 

 axillaries white : " iris indian red ; bill slate ; tarsus dull blue- 

 black" (GuiUemard). Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 

 3-2, tail 1-3, tarsus 0-6 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*4, 

 outer posterior 0-5, inner anterior 0'33, inner posterior 0"22. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the scarlet 

 feathers bordering the hinder portion of the crown and on the 

 occiput, these parts being dark brown : " iris indian red ; bill 

 brownish; tarsus brownish black" (GuiUemard). Total length 

 5-6 inches, culmen 0"8, wing 3'-i, tail Iw, tarsus 0-6. 



The younger female has some indistinct spots of pale brown upon 

 the inner webs of the four central rectrices : "iris brown ; bill slate- 

 black ; tarsus olive-green " (GuiUemard). 



Hah. Sulu Islands. 



a. cS ad. sk. [Sulu Islands] (A. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



(T^-pe of species.) 



b. S ad. sk. [Sulu Islands] (A. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



IS. lyngipicus temmincki. 



Picus temmincki, Mallterhe, Rev. et Mar), de Zool. 1849, p. 529 ; 



Bj). Confp. i. p. 137 (1850) ; Malh. Picidce, i. p. 15-3, pi. xxxvi. 



fig. 3 (1801) ; tSundev. Cons^p. Av. Picin. p. 29 (1806) ; Gray, Li<t 



Field. Brit. Mus. p. 43 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8583 



(1870). 

 Yungipicus tenmiincki, Bonap. Cotisp. Vohicr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854) ; 



Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. pp. 41, 111 (1872); Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civic. Genov. vii. p. 647 (1875) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 57 ; Bias. 



J. f. O. 1883, p. 135. 

 Bseopipo temmincki, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 60 (1863). 

 Yungiceps temmincki, Meyer, J. f. O. 1873, p. 405 (laps. cal.). 

 lyngipicus temmincki, Harr/itt, Ibis, 18S2, p. 49 ; Gould, B. Asia, vi. 



pi. XXV., cJ 2 (1882) ; Guillem. P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 540. 



Adult male. Back and scapulars pale dusky olive, barred with 

 pale buff ; rump aud upper tail-coverts buff, the latter having a 

 reddish-brown tinge and barred with dark brown ; wing-coverts 

 olive-brown, the quills brown, the median and greater coverts, as 

 well as outer webs of the quills, spotted with buffy white, the spots on 

 the inner webs of the latter pure white ; shafts of quills dark brown ; 

 central pair of tail-feathers of the same colour as the coverts, the 

 rest rather darker, and the whole barred with umber-brown ; shafts 

 brown, yellow at the base ; forehead and crown olive-dusky ; a band 

 of scarlet spreads across the occiput on to the side of the neck • 

 nape buffy white ; lores white ; sides of the face aud neck olive- 

 dusky, with a white superciliary stripe, and another white stripe 

 from the lores passing under the ear-coverts and down the side of 

 the neck ; malar region dusky, mixed with white ; chin aud throat 

 dusky, crossed by whitish markings, aud a median stripe of buffy 



