On the Woodpeckers of the Genus Miglyptes. 189 



XX. — Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. VI. On the Genus 

 Miglyptes. By Edward Hargitt, F.Z.S. 



Although only four species of this genus are known, con- 

 fined to the Indo-Malayan subregion and the Burmese 

 countries, there has been great confusion in their synonymy, 

 and I have endeavoured in the present paper to show the 

 characters of all these four species and to disentangle their 

 somewhat complicated literature. The material upon which 

 this paper is based is contained in the collections of the 

 British and Leyden Museums, as well as in my own collec- 

 tion and that of Captain Wardlaw Ramsay. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Mantle .and upper back barred. 



a'. Lower back and rump creamy white. 



a". Centre of breast and abdomen uniform black . trtstis. 



b". Breast and abdomen with fulvous cross bars . . (jrammithorax. 

 h' . Lower back and rump barred like the mantle . . tukki. 



b. Mantle and upper back uniform black ; rump creamy 



white ; breast and abdomen uniform black jiigularis. 



1. Miglyptes tristis. 



Picus tristis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 177 (1822) ; 

 Giebel (pt.), Thes. Orn. p. 183 (1876). 



Picus poicilolophus, Temm. PI. Col. iv. pi. cxcvii. fig. 1 

 (1823) ; Wagler (pt.), Sysi. Av. sp. 68 (1827) ; Cuvier, Regn. 

 Anim. 1829, p. 451. 



Meiglyptes poici/ophus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 309 

 (1837). 



Meiglyptes tristis, Gray, List Gen. 1810, p. 55 ; id. Gen. 

 B. ii. p. 447 (1846); Blyth (pt.). Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

 1849, p. 60; Bp. (pt.) Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 112 (1850); 

 id. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854) ; Reichenb. (pt.) 

 Handb. Scans. Picinje, p. 402, pis. dclvii. figs. 4370, 4371 

 (1854) ; Horsf. & Moore (pt.), Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 

 p. 668 (1856-58) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 123 

 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 203. no. 8838 (1870) ; Nichol- 

 son, Ibis, 1879, p. 164; id. op. cit. 1881, p. 141. 



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