396 picid.t:. 



u". cJad. sk. Pegu, Dec. 24, 1873 {H. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



W. JR.). 

 v". c? ad. ; w", x". Basseiii, Pegu. W. T. Blanford, 



$ ad. sk. Esq. [P.]. 



y". d'ad. sk. Tonasseiim, Jar. 17, 1877 ( W. Tweeddale Coll. 



Liitihorff). 

 s", a^. d $ ad sk. Thoungyeen River, Oct., Feb. Hume Coll. 



(C. T. Bincjham). 

 6''-(?\c?ad.et imm.; Kaukaryit, June, July, Aug., Hume Coll. 



/^ $ad. sk. Sept. (J. Darliny). 



g". 2ad.sk. Thatone, Jan. ( J7^. Z)aw«OM). Hume Coll. 



h''. 2ad.sk. Moulmein, Dec. (IF. i'auisoM). Hume Coll. 



P. Bones of trunk. 



Subsp. a. Micropternus trachyurus. 



Picus brachyurus, Vieill N. Diet, crillst. Nat. xxvi. p. 103 (1818) ; 



Bonn. Sf Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1324 (1823) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, 



sp. 71 (1827) ; Draiy. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 505 (1828) ; 



Siindev. Cunsp. Av. Picin. p. 89 (1866). 

 Picus badius, liaffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 289 (1822) ; Simdev. 



Consp. Av. Picin. p. 90 (1866). 

 Hemicircus badius, Et/fon, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106. 

 Micropternus badius, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xiv. p. 551 (1845) ; id. Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 61 (1849) ; Eeichenh. Scans. PicincB, p. 403, 



no. 940, pi. dclviii. fig. 4374 (1854) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.l. 



Co. Mvs. p. 666 (1856-58); Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 319; Tiveedd. 



His, 1877, p. 289; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 184 



(1879) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1881, p. 141 ; id. op. cit. 1882, p. 55. 

 Meiglyptes bracbyurus. Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 22 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 113 (1850); Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 



p. 125 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 203, no. 8843 (1870). 

 Phaiopicos brachyurus, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848- 



49, p. 337 ; id. Eev. Zool. 1849, p. 536. 

 Micropternus gularis (pt.), Eeichenh. Scans. Picince, p. 403, no. 941, 



pi. dclviii. tigs. 4375-4376, $ S (1854). 

 Micropternus brachyurus, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zyyod. p. 9 (1854) ; 



Gray, List Gen. 1855, p. 94 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. 1870, p. 293 ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1877, pp. 480, 481 ; id. Sf Davison, op. cit. 1878, vi. 



p. 145 ; Hume, op. cit. 1879, pp. 52, 88 ; Midler, Orn. Ins. Salanga, 



p. 72 (1882); Oates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 58 (1883); Hargitt, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 10 ; Shmpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 279. 

 Phaiopicus brachyurus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 5, pi. xlvi. figs. 4, 5 



(1862). 

 Picus squamigularis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Piciti. p. 89 (1866). 

 Meiglyptes badius. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 12(5 (1868) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 203, no. 8845 (1870). 

 Meiglyptes squamigularis. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 126 (1868) ; 



id. Iland-l. B. ii. p. 203, no. 8844 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour rufous, the back and rumj) with 

 crescentic markings or bars of black, the upper tail-coverts, scapu- 

 lars, wing-covcrts, and quills barred ■with black ; shafts of quills 

 brown ; tail entirely and narrowly barred with black, the bars 

 well defined and rather less in width than the interspaces ; shafts 



