of the Genus Miglyptes. 197 



Mr. Davison, it is common in the Malay peninsula and on 

 Singapore Island. It has also been obtained in Sumatra 

 by Messrs. Wallace, Buxton, and H. O, Forbes; while in 

 Borneo it has been procured at Sandakan by Mr. W. B. 

 Pryerj Lumbidan {Ussher, Treacher, 6f Low) ; Lawas River 

 {Treacher); Sarawak [Doria ^ Beccari) ; Jambusan and 

 Tagora [Everett) ; Banjermassing {Mottley ^ Schierbrand) ; 

 and also at Moara, Teweh, in the south-eastern portion of 

 the island [Fischer). 



4. Miglyptes jugularis. 



Meiglyptes jugularis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 195 (18-15) ; 

 id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 60 (1849) ; Horsf. & Moore, 

 Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 669. no. 977 (1856-58) ; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1874, p. 471; id. & Gates, op. cit. 1875, p. 14; 

 Hume & Davison, op. cit. 1878, vi. pp. 13.2 and 501 ; Oates, 

 B. Brit. Burra. ii. p. 60 (1883). 



Phaiopicus jugularis, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 11 (1862). 

 Hemicircus jugularis, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 71 

 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 191. no. 8670 (1870). 



Miglyptes jugularis, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 87; Bingham, 

 op. cit. 1880, p. 161 ; Oates, op. cit. 1882, p. 190. 



Adult male. Back and scapulars black ; rump bufiy 

 white ; wing-coverts black, tipped with buffy white, some 

 of the median and greater series being barred with the 

 same ; a conspicuous and large patch of buffy white ex- 

 tending the whole length of the forearm, also a similar- 

 coloured patch on the edge of the wing ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts black ; quills black, the outer primary 

 unspotted, the next feather spotted with buffy white at the 

 base only of both webs ; the remaining quills minutely 

 spotted with buffy white on the outer webs, the inner with 

 large spots or notches of the same, some of the innermost 

 feathers having the light markings on the inner webs con- 

 fluent at the base, or with broad buffy white bars across both 

 webs on their apical portion; shafts black; upper tail- 

 coverts, tail, and tail-shafts black ; forehead, crown, lores, 

 and side of the face black, the lores being spotted with 



