29. MICROPTEENXJS. 401 



Phaiopiciis badiosus, Malh. Picida, ii. p. 6 (1882). 

 Picus badiosus, Sundev. Co7^sp. Av. Ptcin. p. 91 (186G) : Giebel, TJics. 

 Orn. iii. p. 143 (1876). 



Adult male. General colour rufous, slight]}- dusky ou the top of 

 tho head; back, rump, scapulars, and wing-coverts sometimes 

 nearly uniform, but more often considerably barred with black ; quills 

 narrowly barred with black, the tips of the primaries black ; shafts 

 brown ; upper tail-coverts distinctly barred across both webs, but 

 in extremely old birds there exists a broken intermarginal line on the 

 apical half, the basal half having an irregular and broad shaft-stripe 

 or broken bars of black ; tail black, the basal half narrowly barred 

 with rufous, shafts black ; the feathers of the entire orbital region 

 tipped with crimson ; the feathers of the chin, throat, and malar 

 region of the same colour as the underparts, but margined (except 

 at the tip) with whitish ; underparts almost entirely uniform, with 

 only the faintest trace of blackish transverse markings on the Jianks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts : under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 unspotted: "iris dull red" (Doria). Total length 7*5 inches, 

 culmen 1-03, wing 4-25, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-83; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-63, outer posterior 0-57, inner anterior 

 0-55, inner posterior 0-15. 



Adult female. Resembles the male, but wants the red on the 

 orbital region. Total length 7-2 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 4-23, 

 tail 2-25, tarsus 0-83. 



The young are duller on the underparts as well as upon the chin 

 and throat, and the white edging to tho feathers of the latter parts 

 is not so well defined ; the upper parts are almost entirely uniform, 

 as in the adult. 



Labuan examples of this species are very dark. A male in the 

 Collection has the occipital feathers tipped with dull crimson, but 

 this is apparently only individual variation. 



Hab. Borneo *. 



a. 2 ad. sk. [Sumatra] {Mus. Lu(/d.). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



/.». Juv. sk. Borneo. Wallace Coll. 



c. (S ad. sk. Sarawak. Wallace Coll. 



d. (S ad. sk. Simuujon, Sarawak {A. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett). 



e,f. J $ ad. sk. Labuan (if. Zo?t;). R. Bowdler Sharpe, 



Esq. [P.]. 



//. S ad. sk. Labuan. Tweeddale Coll. 



/(. $ ad. sk. Tegora, N.E. Borneo {H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett), 



i. 2 ad. sk. Elopura. Eev. H. Frere [P.]. 



A. 2ad.sk. Banjarmassiug (J. i5/o</e^). Tweeddale Coll. 



* The Collection contains an example, from the Leiden Museum, said to 

 have been obtained in Sumatra. I have examined the Smnatran Micropterni in 

 the above Museum, and they are all M. br achy urns. I think there has been 

 some mistake in labelling the above-mentioned specimen. 



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