402 PICIBiE. 



4. Micropternus fokiensis. 



Bracliyptemus badius [non liajft.), SwhiJi. Ibis, 1861, p. 267. 

 Brachypteruus fokiensis, Swhih. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 87 : id. Ibis, 1868, 



p. 63. 

 Micropternus fokiensis, Switik. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 267; id. op. cit. 



1871, p. 393; David ^ Oust. Ois. Clmie, p. 54 (1877); Hargitt, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 12 ; Styan, op. cit. 1887, p. 229. 

 Picus fokiensis, Sundev. Coni^p. Av. Picin. p. 91 (1866) ; Giebel, 



T/ics. Oni. ili. p. 154 (1876). 

 Meic^lvptes fokiensis, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Miis. p. 126 (1868) ; id. 



Ilaml-l. B. ii. p. 203, no. 8847 (1870). 

 Micropternus brachyurus (pt.), Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 481. 



Adult male. Ui)per back uniform dark brown ; middle and lower 

 back, rump, scapulars, and wing-coverts blackish brown, narrowly 

 barred with rufous ; bastard-M'iug and primary-coverts blackish 

 brown, barred with rufous ; quills barred brownish black and 

 rufous on both webs ; shafts reddish orange on the rufous portion 

 of the web, and blackish where the feather is crossed by a black 

 bar ; the shafts of the inner quills blackish brown ; upper tail- 

 coverts barred black and rufous ; tail rufous, crossed by five bars of 

 black, these bars being rather narrower than the rufous inter- 

 spaces ; shafts reddish or purplish brown ; lores, forehead, crown 

 and occiput, sides of the face, and iipper neck brownish buff, the 

 feathers having dark-brown central stripes ; below the eye a patch 

 of crimson ; hind neck and lower side of the neck more rufous than 

 the head, the feathers having similar central stripes ; chin and 

 throat buff, each feather centred with a very dark brown stripe ; 

 fore neck and chest rufous ; entire under surface of the body dark 

 brown, the flanks and thighs barred with rufous ; under tail-coverts 

 dull rufous, with either an intermarginal blackish line or transverse 

 and other varied blackish markings ; under wing-coverts rufous 

 varied wilh black. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-12, wing 5-1, 

 tail 2-8, tarsus 0-9 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*7, outer 

 posterior 0'7, inner anterior 0-55, inner posterior 0'23. 



Swinhoe's type of the male is apparently a bird not fully adult, 

 and the soft parts are given as follows : — " bill bluish grey, with 

 more or less greenish yellow on the lower mandible ; iris reddish 

 brown ; legs and claws greenish slaty" {SwinJioe). 



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

 patch under the eye. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 

 4-95, tail 2-95, tarsus 0-85. 



Nestlinri. In general coloration and marking almost identical with 

 the adult, but differing in having the upper back barred black and 

 dull rufous, the striations on the throat of a less dark brown, and 

 the under wing-coverts almost uniform pale rufous. 



Hah. Eastern China (Fokien), and possibly south into the northern 

 part of Cochin China *. 



* A specimen of M. fokiensis, said to be from Cochin China (I'crreatLv), is 

 iu the Leiden Museum. It is probably confined to the north. 



