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Phaiopicos tristis, Malil. N. Classif, Mem. Acad. Metz, 

 18i8-49, p. 338. 



Phaiopicus tristis, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 10_, pi. xlviii. 

 figs. 1, 2 (1862). 



Picus tristis, var. a, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 91 

 (1866). 



Mighjptes tristis, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 497 (note). 

 Adult male. Upper and middle back, scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts black, narrowly barred witb bufty white; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, spotted with buffy 

 white; quills black, spotted with bufFy white upon both 

 webs, the innermost being barred with the same across both 

 webs ; shafts black ; lower back and rump buffy white, the 

 former with a few dusky cross-markings ; upper tail-coverts 

 black, narrowly barred with buffy white ; tail black, with buffy 

 white spots upon both webs ; shafts black ; lores, entire head 

 and crest, sides of the neck, chin, and throat black, finely 

 vermiculated with buify white ; a small red malar patch ; 

 under surface of the body black, the sides of the body, flanks, 

 and thighs barred with buffy white ; under tail-coverts black, 

 narrowly barred with bufly white; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries buffy white. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*85, 

 wing 3 7, tail 1*95, tarsus 0*7; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0"6, outer posterior 0'55, inner anterior 0*4, inner 

 posterior 0"28. 



Adult female. Resembling the adult male, but wanting the 

 red malar patch. Total length 5'8 inches, culmen 0'75, 

 wing 3-6, tail 1*7, tarsus 0'65. 



This species (the types of which, procured by Horsfield, 

 are in the British Museum) is confined exclusively to the 

 island of Java, whence specimens have been forwarded by 

 Messrs. E. C. Buxton and H. O. Forbes. It is apparently 

 a rare bird, or, perhaps, one difficult to obtain, as but few 

 examples are to be found in museums. It may at once be 

 distinguished from M. grammithorax of INIalherbe, wdth 

 which it has often been confounded, by its uniform black 

 breast and abdomen. When Lord Walden published his 

 paper " On a Collection of Birds from Northern Borneo " 



