480 PICID.E. 



m",ii". cS ^ii(\.ii^<.. Sarawak. H. Everett [0.]. 



o". (S ad. sk. Baujarmassing (J. Motley). Wallace Coll. 



P"i^'' c? $ i^d- Borneo. llajah Brooke [P.]. 



r" . 5 juv. sk. Borneo. Purchased. 



3. Hemicercus canente. 



Picus canente, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 215, pi. Ixxiii. c? (18;!0) ; id. 



Belmuj. Voy. iii. p. 240 (1834), <S ■ 

 Hemicercus canente, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1845) ; Blyth, J. A. S. 



B. XV. p. 282 (1846) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 54 (1840); 



Horsf. ii- Moorp, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 650 (1856-58), pt. ; 



Jerd\ (pt.) B. Ind. i. p. 280 (1862) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1863, p. 75 ; 



Cah. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 176 (1863); Blyth, Ibis, 1866, 



pp. 349, 354; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 71 (1868); id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 190, no. 8668 (1870) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 169 ; 



Blanford, t. c. p. 464 ; Ehves, t. c. p. 527 ; IlumeSf Darison, Sir. F. 



1874, p. 471 ; id. ^- Oates, op. eit. 1875, pp. 14, 60; Bli/th S,- Wald. 



B. Burm. 1875, p. 74; Wald. Ibis, 1876, p. 344; Hume, Str. F. 



1877, p. 25 ; id. l^ Davison, op. cit. 1878, vi. pp. 127, 500 ; Hmne, 



op. cit. 1880, p. 112; Binr/ham, t. c. p. 1(31 ; Oates, op. cit. 1882, 



p. 190 ; id. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 30 (1883) ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1884, 



p. 252 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Star. Nat. (Jenova, 1888, p. 564 ; 



Hvme, Str. F. xi. p. 61 (1888). 

 Micropicos canente, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, 



p. 331. 

 Hemicercus canens, Bp. Co>isp. Gen. Av. i. p. 129 (1850) ; id. Consp. 



Volucr. Zyyod. p. 9 (1854) ; Reichenb. Scans. Picina, p. 401, 



pi. dclvi. tigs. 4366-4367, c? $ ad. (1854). 

 Micropicus canente (pt.), Malh. Picidce, i. p. 190, pi. xlii. figs. 1, 2 



(1861). 

 Picus canente, vctr. orientalis, Sundev. Consji. Av. Picin.'^. 11 (1866). 



Adult male. Back and scapulars black, with a broad median stripe 

 of bnffy white on the upper back ; rump pale buff, the lower 

 feathers barred with black at the tip; upper tail-coverts, tail, and 

 the shafts black; a very conspicuous patch of pale bufi' extending 

 along the whole of the forearm, the remaining wing-coverts black 

 narrowly margined at the tip with bufly white ; the innermost of the 

 sccondarj' quills huffy white with a large heart-shaped subapical 

 spot of black, and sometimes a concealed spot or bar, the remainder of 

 the quills black, the base of the inner webs margined with white ; 

 shafts black ; nasal plumes, top of the head and crest, upper half of 

 the face, and the hind neck black ; the forehead and almost the 

 entire crown minutely speckled with white ; chin and throat dull 

 buffy white, the malar region slightly dusky ; fore neck and under 

 surface of the body olive dusky ; from under the ear-coverts a pale 

 buff stripe runs backwards down the side of the neck on to the side 

 of the chest, and separated from the fore neck and chest by a row 

 of black spots ; thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts black, the latter, 

 as well as the feathers of the vent, narrowly tipped with whitish ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries bulfy white or slightly yellowish. 

 Total length 6'8 inches, culmcn 1'05, wing 3*85, tail 1'4, tarsus 

 0"78 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'65, outer posterior 

 0*72, inner anterior 0-45, inner posterior 0-35. 



