3S(3 I'lciD^. 



Meifrlyptes tristis (non Horsf.), Stoliczha, J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 294 ; 

 WuM. Ilm, 1872, p. mr,;'Salvad. ZTcc.Born. p.5G(1874) ; Hume, 

 Sfr. F. 1874, p. 471 ; id. op. cit. 1875, p. 324; Bli/tk (ij- Wald. B. 

 Burm. p. 77 (1875) ; Shmye, F. Z. S. 1875, p. 103; id. Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 30 ; Tweedd. op. cit. 1877, p. 290 ; Briigg. Ahhmidl. nat. Ver, 

 Bremen, v. p. 455 (1877) ; Hume. ^ Davison, Str. F. 1878, vi. 

 pp. 131, 501 : Hume, op. cit. 1879, p. 52 ; SJiarpe, P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 327; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 243; Tivaut, Ois. B. Cochinchine, p. 88 

 (1879) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 184 (1879) ; Kelham, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 388 ; Skarpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 792 ; Nicholson, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 65 ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 402 (1882) ; Miiller, 

 Orn. Salanga, p. 72 (1882) ; Bias. Verhandl. sool.-bot. Gesellsch. 

 Wien, 1883, p. 31 ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 405 ; Trist. Cat. 

 Coll. p. 105 (1889). 



riiaiopicus grammitliorax, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 12, ]il. xlviii. figs. 4, 5 

 (18(j2). 



Picus tristis, var. b, Sundev. Cotisp. Av. Picin. p. 92 (1866). 



Meiglyptes graramithorax, Grai/, List Picid. Brit. Mas. p. 124 

 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 203, no. 8839 (1870) ; Oates, B. Brit. 

 Bur7n.i\. p. 59 (1883). 



Miglyptes tristis {non Horsf.), Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 87. 



Miglyptes graramithorax, Hinte, Str. F. 1879, p. 497 (note) ; 

 Harff. Ibis, 1884, p. 191 ; Sliarpe, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 443; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genov. 1887, pp. 519, 530. 



Adult male. Mantle, scapulars, and wing-coverts black narrowly 

 barred with white ; lower back and rump buffy white ; upper tail- 

 covcrts black narrowly barred with white ; quills black, spotted 

 with white on both webs, the innermost of all being barred right 

 across ; shafts black ; tail black, spotted, more or less transversely, 

 on both webs with white, shafts black ; head, neck, and chest 

 black, closely and finely vermiculated with M'hite, or, on the chin, 

 with buff; the lores and anterior half of orbital region buff; malar 

 stripe crimson ; underparts below the chest and the under tail- 

 coverts black barred with buffy white, the bars less defined in the 

 middle of the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and axillaries uniform 

 buffy white. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0"75, wing 3'5.5, tail 

 1"75, tarsus 0"7 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-52, outer 

 posterior 0"55, inner anterior 0-35, inner posterior 0-22. 



Adult female. Resembles the adult male, but wants the red malar 

 stripe. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 3-47, tail l"6o, 

 tarsus 0-7. 



Flech/lina female. In the grey phase ; diflfers from the adult 

 female in having the top of the head and the occiput dusky, with 

 smoky white cresccntic markings ; the rum]) is even lighter buffy 

 white than an adult grey-phased female; the underparts are not 

 entirely barred below and quite as uniform on the middle of the 

 breast and abdomen as in some adult birds. The general character, 

 however, of the immature is to bo browner in colour and entirely 

 barred below. 



Exam]>les of this species from Nwalabo have the breast and 

 abdomen darker and more uniform than from any other locality, 

 and very much resemble M. tristis, but differ from it in having 

 these parts brown instead of black, and the chest is always 



