LICHTENSTEINIPICUS. 403 



Male. — Forehead, crown, and occiput light crimson; lores, a narrow 

 line over eye, cheeks, and ear-coverts light golden yellow; mantle, back, 

 rump, secondaries, and secondary-coverts crimson, not so bright as crown ; 

 alula, primary-coverts, and primaries edged with dull golden yellow; 

 chin yellow with a black line down the middle and a black line on each 

 side; neck and fore breast blackish brown, each feather with a large spot 

 of pale yellow or yellowish buff; rest of under parts uniform yellow; tail 

 dark brown. Iris carmine; bill dark brown above, greenish below; legs 

 pale yellow; nails dark horn-l)rown. Length, 2(30; wing, 148; tail, 90; 

 culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 2(5. 



Female. — Similar to the male but differs in having the cTo\yn and crest 

 gohlen yellow like the sides of head. Wing, 145; tail, 94; culmen from 

 base, 39: tarsus, 24. 



-Haljits like those of C. lucidus. Seven males from Masbate measure, 

 274 in length: wing, 144; tail, 80; culmen, 35; tarsus, 24; middle toe 

 with claw, 31. Three females, length, 283; wing, 144; tail, 85; culmen, 

 34: tarsus, 24: middle toe with claw, 31. Iris red; legs and feet light 

 yellow; upper mandible black, lower dull green." {Bourns and Wor- 

 cester MS.) 



Genus LICHTEXSTEIXIPICUS Bonaparte, 1854. 



Culmen slightly curved for its entire length; nasal ridge prominent; 

 nostrils partly concealed by plumes; occipital crest short; plumage slate- 

 black ; chin, throat, and sides of neck with a minute white spot at the 



tip of each feather. 



Species. 



a'. Plumage black; malar region and foreliead crimson in the male. 



funebris (p. 40o) 

 <r. Plumage slaty smoke-gray: malar region scarlet in the male. 



fuliginosus (p. 40-1) 



309. LICHTENSTEINIPICUS FUNEBRIS (Valenciennes). 

 FUNEREAL WOODPECKER. 



Picns funebris Valenciexnes, Diet. Sc. Nat. (182G), 40, 17!i. 

 Microstictus funebris Hargitt. (at. Birds Brit. .Mus. (18<)()). 18, 492: 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (lOOOi. 2, 2:^0 -.* McCiREooR and Woriester, Hand- 

 List (190G), GO. 

 Catanduanes {Whitehead); Luzon (Meijer. Hrriof, Slier /■;.(•/*.. Whitehead, 

 McGregor); Marinduque {Steere Exp.). 



Male. — Black with a slight gloss on wings and l)ack; throat and abdo- 

 men smoky l)rown ; lores, forehead, cheeks, and a wide space around each 

 eye deep crimson : chin, throat, sides and back of neck with a small white 

 spot at the tip of each feather. Iris pale yellow; bill white; legs plum- 

 beous; nails light horn-blue. Length. 330; wing, 15(5: tail. 138: culmen 

 from base, 37 ; tarsus, 29. 



* In Sharpe's Hand-List, Calayan is given as one of the localities for this species, 

 a slip for Catanduanes; no woodpecker is known from Calayan. ^ 



