of the Genus Miglyptes. 191 



('Ibis/ 1872), it appears to me that he had not seen the 

 true M. tristis of Horsfield from Java, and that he con- 

 sidered the dark-breasted birds received by him from Si- 

 munjon and Banjerraassing to be referable to that species. 

 Lord Walden was certainly right in regarding these specimens 

 as immature ; but the slightly darker underparts exhibited 

 in the immature of M. grammithorax are totally distinct from 

 the entirely black breast and abdomen possessed by the Javan 

 bird. Mr. F. Nicholson C Ibis/ 1879, p. 164) has, in my 

 opinion, clearly shown that M. tristis, from Java, and M. 

 grammithorax, inhabiting Southern Tenasserim, the Malayan 

 peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, are both good and valid 

 species. My descriptions are taken from a pair of birds in 

 the Leyden Museum. 



2. Miglyptes grammithorax. 



PicM,9^joi«/o/o/*/m5(nonTemm.),Less.Traite,p. 221 (1831). 



Hemicircus tristis, Eyt^n, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106. 



Meiglyptes tristis (pt.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

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

 Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854) ; Eeichenb. Handb. Scans. 

 Picinffi, p. 402, pis. dclvii. figs. 4370, 4371 (1854). 



Meiglyptes tristis (non Horsf.), Wald. Ibis, 1872, p. 365 ; 

 Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 56 (1874) ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 471 ; 

 id. op. cit. 1875, p. 324; Blyth & Wald. B. Burm. p. 77 

 (1875) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 103; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 36 ; 

 Tweedd. op. cit. 1877, p. 290 ; BrLigg. Abhandl. nat. Ver, 

 Bremen, v. p. 455 (1877) ; Hume & Davison, Str. F. 1878, 

 vi. pp. 131 and 501; Hume, op. cit. 1879, p. 52; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 243; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiv. 

 p. 184 (1879) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 388 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 

 1881, p. 792; Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, p. 55; Salvin, Cat. 

 Stricld. Coll. p. 402 (1882); Miiller, Orn. Salanga, p. 72 

 (1882). 



Phaiopicus grammithorax, Mahl. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 12, 

 pi. xlviii. figs. 4, 5 (1862). 



Picus tristis, var. b, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 92 

 (1866). 



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