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white with a fulvous wash ; breast with large blackish spots ; abdomen 

 with blackish stripes; rump and upper tail-coverts white, spotted with 

 black. A male from Lubang measures: Wing, 81; tail, 43; culmen from 

 base, 20; tarsus, l-i. 



Female. — Differs from the male in baving no red on sides of occiput. 

 A female from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures : Wing, 83 ; tail, 45 ; 

 culmen from base, 18; tarsus, 14. 



"Dr. J. B. Steere, the first naturalist before whom a series of specimens 

 [of Yiingii)icus\ from all these localities ever lay, saw at once the dif- 

 ferences between the Luzon and Panay birds, which unfortunately he 

 seems not to have thought worth pointing out, and rightly retained tbe 

 name 'maculatus' for the Panay species. The Luzon birds he called 

 'validirostris,' with apparent reason as they most certainly are not mac- 

 ulatus and the birds described by Blyth may well have come from Luzon. 

 The Mindanao-Basilan species he re-described under the name 'Yungi- 

 picus hasilanicus/ overlooking Hargitt's name and description entirely. 

 * * * "j^j-^g other species of the genus found in the Philippine 

 Islands with the possible exception of that from Samar and Leyte are so 

 well-marked that no possibility of confusion exists." (Bourns and 

 Worcester. ) 



"Quite common in Marinduque. Not abundant in the parts of Min- 

 doro visited by us, and no specimens were gathered by the Menage Ex- 

 pedition. A female specimen in the Steere collection measures as follows : 

 Wing, 79; tail, 44; culmen, 17; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 15." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



357. YUNGIPICUS MACULATUS (Scopoli). 

 SPOTTED PYGMY WOODPECKER. 



Picus maculatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 89. 

 lyngipicus maculatus Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 332 



(part); Grant, Ibis (1895), 115 (critical notes); Sharpe, Hand-List 



(1900), 2, 220. 

 Tungipicus maculatus McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 65. 



Cebu (Bourns <£ Worcester, McGregor) ; Guimaras (Koch £ Schadenberg) ; 

 Negros (Whitehead) ; Panay (Sonnerat, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) . 



Male. — Above dark brown tinged with olive; white band from eye to 

 nape broken; a long wide red stripe on each side of occiput; spots on 

 throat and breast not so black as in validirostris. A male from Cebu 

 measures: Length, 145; wing, 85; tail, 44; culmen from base, 19; 

 tarsus, 15. 



Female. — Similar to the male but with no red on the head. A female 

 from Cebu measures: Wing, 86; tail, 52; culmen from base, 19; 

 tarsus, 14. 



"Quite common in Cebu; rarer in Panay. Not met with in Negros 



