382 



2. Lepocestes porphyromelas. 



Picus porphjTomt'las, Loic, Briefe geschr. cms Ostind. p. 143 (1832) ; 



Snndei). Cv7isp. Av. Pic/'n. p. 47 (1866). 

 Picus (lieniicircus) rubiginosus, Sicains. Classif. B. ii. p. 150 



(1837). 

 Picus melanogaster, Hay, Madr. Jmirn. 1844, p. 153 ; Tweedd. Metn. 



ed. W.-Banmnj, p. 7 "(1881). 

 Ilemicercus rubiginosus, Hartl. Bev. Zool. 1844, p. 402, S ; Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1845) ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 1846, p. 104. 

 Picus rubiginosus, Eyton, Ann. <^- Mac/. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 229 



(1845). 

 Geciuus mbigiuosus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1846, p. 52 ; id. Cat.B. Mus. 



As. Sac. p. 59, no. 272 (1849). 

 Celeopicos rubiginosiis, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848- 



49, p. 336. 

 Dendrobates rubiginosu.'?, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 126 (1850). 

 Venilia porphvi'omelas, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 128 (1850); Reichenh. 



Scans. Pic'incp, p. 359, uo. 831, pi. dcxxix. figs. 4187-88 (1854) ; 



Hume S,- Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 143 (1878) ; Gates, B. Brit. Bur7n. 



ii. p_. 40 (1883). 

 Blytbipicus rubiginosus, Bp. Consp. Vohicr. Zygod. p. 9, no. 98 (1854) ; 



Gray, Cat. Gen. B. Brit. Mus. p. 94 (1855). 

 Scolecotheres rubiginosus, Reichetib. Scans. Picina, p. 428, no. 1011 



(1854). 

 ■^'enilia melanogaster, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 



p. 665 (1856-58). 

 Venilia melanogastra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 457. 

 Venilia rubiginosa, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 292 (1862). 

 Celeopicus poi-pbyromelas, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 39, pi. xlix. figs. 1 



c?,2$(1862). _ _ 



Lepocestes rubiginosus, Cah. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. Ill 



(1863). 

 Campepbilus rubiginosus. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 188, no.' 8632 (1870). 

 Lepocestes porpbyromelas, Suhad. Ucc. Born. p. 48 (1874) ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1875, p". 319 ; Sliarje, Ibis, 1877, p. 9 ; id. op. cit. 1879, 



p. 242 : Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Star. Genova, 1879, p. 181 ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1887, p. 443 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 279. 

 Blytbipicus porphyromelas, Hnme, Str.F. \ii. p. 520 (1878) ; id. op. 



hit. 1879, pp. 52', 88, no. 176 bis. 



Adult male. Upper parts and wing-coverts uniform purplish rcrl, 

 the upper tail-covcrts dusky black, margined with the same purplish 

 red : quills brownish black, the outer webs of the secondaries and of 

 the inner primaries at the base margined with red, the quills having 

 dusky-greyish spots or narrow bars ; shafts black ; tail and the shafts 

 black ; head brown anteriorly, becoming blacker posteriorly and on 

 the neck, some of the feathers on the side of the nape tipped with 

 bright crimson, the malar feathers slightly tinged with dull red ; 

 under surface of the body and the under tail-coverts b]acl<ish 

 brown, with a reddish tinge on the chest ; under wing-coverts 

 blackish brown mixed with dull red. Total length 8-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-55, wing 4-8, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-95; toes (without claws) — 



