490 PICID^E. 



d" . Tail dark brownish dusky above and 

 below, the shafts nearly black above, 

 their underside dusky, with smoky- 

 white bases loallacii $ ad., p. 492. 



V). Unicolorous above and below. 



c . Above and below slaty smoke-grey, the 

 featliers of the head and neck -with a termi- 

 nal linear white marking ; malar region [p. 492. 



crimson fidujinums ^ ad. *, 



d' . Above and below almost black, more or 

 less glossed with blue ; chin, throat, and 

 fore neck browner, and together with the 

 side of the neuk covered with rounded 

 specks of white, the occiput with more 

 linear markings of white, 

 e". Forehead and fore part of crown, anterior 

 two thirds of face, and entire malar 



region mulberry-red funehris S ad., p. 493. 



f. "With no red on the head, this being almost 

 uniform slaty black, the malar region, 

 (only) being" distinctly speckled with 

 white ". funebris 5 ad., p. 493. 



1. Microstictus fulvus. 



Picas fulvus, Quoy ^ Gaim. Voy. VAstrol., Zool. p. 228, Atlas, 



pi. xvii. fig. 2, c? (1833) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 10 (18G6). 

 Hemilophus fulvus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; Bj). Consp. Gen. 



Av. i. p. 131 (18-50) ; id. Consp. Voliicr. Zygod. p. 7, no. 17 (1854); 



Ueichenb. Scans. PicincE, p. ^^^So, no. 891, pi. dcxliv. figs. 4302- 



03, <S S (1854) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 84 (1S(J8). 

 Dryopicos fulvus. Math. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Aletz, 1848-49, 



p. 323. 

 Dryopicus fulvus, Malh. Picidce, i. p. 53, pi. xiv. figs. 1 c?, 2 $ 



(1861). 

 Campethera fulvus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 193, no. 8705 (1870). 

 Alophonerpes fulvus, Tweedd. Trans. Zool. Soc. 1872, p, 41 (pt.) ; 



Bias. J.f. O. 1883, p. 135 ; id. Zeitsch.fiir firn. 1886, p. 87. 

 MuUeripicus fulvus, Meyer, Ibis, 1879, pp. 57, 145 ; Wardl.-Rams. 



Ticeedd. Mem. p. 144 (1881), pt. ; GuiUem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 546. 



Adult male. Entire back, rump, wings and their coverts, tail, and 

 upper tail-coverts slaty black, the featlacrs of the rump spotted on 

 their tips -with greyish white ; shafts of quills black, those of the 

 tail-feathers browner; nasal plumes brown; lores, forehead and 

 crown, side of the face to the middle of the ear-coverts (except im- 

 mediately behind the eye, this being rod in very old birds only) 

 crimson, the feathers very close and shoit ; the remainder of the 

 face, occiput, nape, and entire hind neck slaty black, the feathers 

 having white specks on their tips ; ear-coverts tipped with greyish 

 white ; chin and throat ashy brown, slightly rufescent on the fore 

 neck, the whole being covered with white specks ; entire under- 

 parts and under tail-coverts sandy brown ; under wing-coverts and 



* The female is unknovMi. 



