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Female. — Similar to the male but with no crimson anywhere on the 

 head; the cheeks, like the throat, spotted with white. Length, 315 ; wing, 

 155; tail, 133; culmen from base, 34; tarsus, 27. 



This species is fairly common in the lowland forests of Luzon. 



370. LICHTENSTEINIPICUS FULIGINOSUS (Tweeddale) . 

 SOOTY WOODPECKER. 



Mulleripicus fuliginosus Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 



534; Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 821, pi. 83. 

 Microstictus fuliginosus Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 492; 



Grant, Ibis (1897), 246; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 230; McGregor 



and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 66. 



Leyte {Whitehead); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns <& Worcester, 

 Gelestino) ; Samar (Steere E^., Whitehead). 



"Adult male (type of species). — Plumage slaty gray, the whole of the 

 body, wings, and tail uniform, the head (except the loral and orbital 

 region) and neck spotted with white, the spots on the top of the head 

 and on the nape having a striped character, those on the chin and throat 

 larger and more or less triangular in shape; a large patch of brilliant 

 scarlet covers the entire malar region and extends upwards nearly to the 

 eye ; shafts of the quills and of the tail-feathers dusky black. 'Iris naples- 

 yellow.' (Everett.) Length, 305; culmen, 41; wing, 160; tail, 110; 

 tarsus, 30." (Hargitt.) 



"Adult female. — Closely resembles the female of M. funehris, but may 

 be distinguished by the general color of the plumage being grayer; the 

 ground-color of the chin and throat gray like the cheeks, and the white 

 dots distinctly larger. In the female of M. fimehris the chin and throat 

 are brownish gray, and contrast with the blackish gray cheeks. Length, 

 269; culmen, 37; wing, 147; tail, 104; tarsus, 28." (Grant.) 



Genus MULLERIPICUS Bonaparte, 1854. 



Of large size; bill very powerful; proximal half of culmen curved, 

 distal half straight; nostrils large, oval, and covered by feathers; nasal 

 ridge prominent; feathers of head short; no crest. 



371. MULLERIPICUS PULVERULENTUS (Temminck). 



GREAT SLATY WOODPECKER. 



Picus pulverulentus Temminck, PI. Col. (1826), 389. 



Hemilophus pulverulentus Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 494. 

 Alophonerpcs pulverulentus Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 230. 

 Mulleripicus pulverulentus McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List ( 1906) , 66. 



Balabac (Everett); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, Gelestino, White). Sumatra, Cochin China, Malay Peninsula, Burmese 

 provinces, northwestern India, Java, Borneo, Himalayas. 



Adult male. — Blackish slate, abdomen and crissum lighter; feathers of 

 crown, occiput, neck, sides of neck, and breast with small gray tips pro- 



