YuxGiPicus. 395 



though it probably occurs there. Ahiiost certainly absent in Masbate. 

 Most abundant about dead trees in the open, and in low second growth. 



"Three males measure, 142 in length ; wing, 81 ; tail, 38 ; culmen, 19 ; 

 tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 15. A female measures, 152 in length; 

 wing, 80 ; tail, 42 ; tarsus, 15 ; middle toe with claw, 23 ; culmen, 18. 

 Iris reddish brown to dark brown; legs and feet dirty olive-green; nails 

 brown ; bill nearly or quite black, leaden at tip. Food insects and larvae." 

 (Bourns and Worcestei- MS.) 



358. YUNGIPICUS MENAGEI Bourns and Woicpster. 



MENAGE'S PYGMY WOODPECKER. 



lyngipicus menagei Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. 



Papers (1894), 1, 14; Sharpe. Hand-List (1900), 2, 220. 

 Yungipicus menagei McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 65. 



Sibuyan (Bourns d- Worcester, McGregor) . 



"Adult male. — General color of upper surface dark blackish brown; 

 to^ of head uniform black; small spot above and behind the eye creamy 

 white; scarlet stripes on sides of occiput shorter than in Y. maculatus 

 and beginning further back ; they are confluent on nape ; behind and 

 under the scarlet stripe is a partially concealed spot of creamy white; 

 scapulars, interscapulars, and back barred with creamy white ; rump 

 creamy white, some of the feathers with narrow brownish black shaft- 

 stripes ; upper tail-coverts brownish black, broadly edged with huffy white ; 

 tail brownish black, paler at base of feathers and with both webs of 

 feathers spotted with pale buff ; wing-coverts brownish black, eacli feather 

 having one or two creamy white spots on outer web; wing brownish black; 

 outer five primaries with two or three very narrow creamy white spots 

 on outer web, or with no spots at all; tips of inner primaries and inner 

 webs of all primaries spotted with creamy white; secondaries similarly 

 spotted on both webs ; ear-coverts rusty brown ; creamy white malar-stripe 

 extending back of ear-coverts; chin and narrow stripe down center of 

 throat white, bordered by a broad stripe of brownish black on each side, 

 the tips of feathers forming side stripes being brownish white; under 

 surface with strong fulvescent wash; feathers of upper breast with dis- 

 tinct brownish black shaft-marks; feathers of lower breast and abdomen 

 with ill-defined streaks of the same color ; feathers of flanks nearly white 

 with only slight dark markings; under tail-coverts yellowish white, with 

 dark shaft-stripes; under surface of tail slightly lighter than upper, but 

 tips of two central pairs of feathers nearly black ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillars creamy white, spotted with brownish black : bend of wing uniform 

 brownish black. 



"The adult female lacks the scarlet head markings of the male and 

 the creamy white spot, which is partially concealed in the male, is in 

 the female quite conspicuous; otherwise the sexes are alike. 



