•'06 PICIDJE. 



Adult female. Has the forehead and greater part of the crowii, 

 also the malar region, black, the occipital and nuchal crest alone 

 being scarlet. Total length 15-5 inches, culmen 1-9, wing 8-2, tail 

 (rl, tarsns 1'3. 



Hub. Palawan. 



'■', '''• d" 2 ''I'^l- "l^- Palawan. E. Lempriere [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 

 c. 2 ad. sk. Palawan. Prof. J. B. Steere fC.]. 



*(/, e. cS 2 ad. sk. [Manila.] Gonld Coll. 



9. Thriponax richardsi. 



Dryocopus richardsi, Tristram, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 386, pi. xxxi. ; 



Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 188G, p. 124. 

 MiiUeripicus richardsi, Wall. Isl. Life, p. 870 (1880). 

 Thriponax richardsi, Hargitt, Ibis, 1885, p. lr>Q. 



Adult female, (type of species). Brownish black, having a blue- 

 black gloss, with the following exceptions : — the lower back and 

 rump white, a few of the feathers of the lower rump having a small 

 black spot near the tip ; the two central feathers of the upper series 

 of upper tail-coverts white, with a large heart-shaped spot of black 

 on their apical portion, but, when the feathers of the ramp are not 

 raised, having the appearance of being black feathers margined with 

 white ; most of the primaries broadly tipped with white, and their 

 bases to the extent of more than an inch, as well as the bases of the 

 secondaries for at least two inches, also white ; the chin and upper 

 throat dark smoky grey ; the sides of the upper throat, also the tips 

 of the post-malar feathers and of the ear-coverts, finely streaked 

 with white ; the feathers of the upper breast narrowly margined at 

 the tip with buify white ; lower breast, greater part of the abdo- 

 men, and the sides of the body bulfy white, the thigh- feathers 

 having a large spot of black on their apical portion ; tibial plumes 

 whitish at the base ; lower abdominal feathers black, margined with 

 buffy white ; under wing-coverts (except on the edge of the wing) 

 and axillaries white, with a yellowish tinge ; shafts of quills and of 

 tail-feathers brownish black : " iris, feet, and beak black " (Ilicliards). 

 Total length 19 inches, culmen 2-5, wing 9'8, tail 7"25, tarsus 1'3; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 1, outer posterior 0-85, inner 

 anterior 0'72, inner posterior 0'55. 



JIab. Island of Tzus Sima, between Japan and Corea. 



43. CEOPHLffiUS. 



Type. 

 Ceophloeus, Cab. et Seine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 85 (1865). . C. scapularis. 



Range. Mexico (north into the province of ISTuevo Leon, and on 

 the west to Mazatlan), through Central and the greater part of 

 South America as far as the eastern portion of the Argentine 

 Republic (Misiones). 



* There is doubtless some mistake respecting the locality of these specimens. 



