192 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Me'tglyptes grammithorax, Grray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 121 (1868); id. Hand-1. B. ii.' p. 203. no. 8839 (1870); 

 Gates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 59 (1883). 



Miglyptes tristis (non Horsf.), Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 87. 



Miglyptes grammithorax, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 497 

 (note). 



Adult male. Mantle and scapulars black, narrowly barred 

 with buffy white; wing-coverts black, barred and spotted 

 with buffy white, these markings having an irregular and 

 broken appearance ; bastard-wing black, spotted with white ; 

 edge of wing buft'y white; primary- coverts black; quills 

 black, spotted upon both webs with buffy white, the inner- 

 most barred across both webs with the same ; shafts black ; 

 lower back and rump buffy white; upper tail-coverts black, 

 narrowly barred with buffy white , tail-feathers black, spotted 

 with buffy white upon both webs, the dwarf one having the 

 tip white and the spots almost forming a bar ; shafts black ; 

 lores, space round the eye, and chin buff ; entire head, 

 neck, and chest finely vermiculated with black and buffy 

 white (on the face more of a buff), these markings being 

 very fine upon the face and throat, becoming broader lower 

 down, the whole presenting a grey appearance ; a dull red 

 malar patch; underparts more broadly barred with black 

 and buffy white than the chest ; a uniform stripe of dusky 

 brown running down the middle of the abdomen; under 

 tail-coverts resembling the under surface of the body, but 

 the black markings more crescent-shaped ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries uniform buffy white. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3*55, tail 1*75, tarsus 0*7; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0-52, outer posterior 055, 

 inner anterior 0*35, inner posterior 0*22. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of 

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

 wing 3'47, tail 1*65, tarsus 0-7. Mr. Davison gives the soft 

 parts as follows : — " Legs and feet dirty, dingy, or glaucous 

 green ; claws j)lumbeous ; bill black ; edge of eyelids black ; 

 irides in about half the specimens of each sex deep brown, 

 in the other half dull red." 



