246 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



towards maturity he has traced by means of the specimens 

 in the British Museum. Mr. Sharpens ideas on the species 

 are, as usual, good ; but he has unfortunately confused the 

 subject by the names which he has adopted. H. brookeanus 

 is, as he was the first to point out, either an abnormally 

 coloured example of H. sordidus, or, more probably, a newly 

 moulted bird of that species. In stating that H. sordidus and 

 H. concretus are synonymous he falls iuto an error, because, 

 as it turns out, the Javan bird is a well-marked species, and 

 the Malaccan, Sumatran, and Bornean birds belong to another 

 equally well-marked species. The latter must bear the name 

 of H. sordidus of Eytou, founded on Malaccan examples of 

 the young male and adult female ; while that of H. concretus, 

 also bestowed on a young male and adult female, was founded 

 on specimens from Java, and must be applied to the species 

 from this island only. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With the top of the head red or with a red crest. 

 a}. Forehead and crown red. 



a^. Forehead and crown vermilion-red; occipital 



crest olive-grey , sordidus, S ad. 



h^. Forehead and crown, as well as entire crest, 



scarlet concretus, c? ad. 



6\ Forehead and crown rufous bulT. 



e^. Occipital crest orange-red, varied and trans- 

 versely spotted with dusky sordidus, juv. 



d^. Occipital crest uniform bright flame-red .... concretus, '^ny, 



b. With no red on the head. 



c^ Forehead and crown of the same colour as the 



crest, and uniform or minutely spotted. ,. , ^ , 



., „ ' , 1 X T \ sordidus, § ad. 



e~. J^orehead, crown, and crest olive-grey < ^ T. , 



x2 rr.„ ..«'„ T,„„^ „„ „,.n .... .,..,„,.... r.^..^. \ <^07icretus, $ ad. 



/-. Top of the head, as well as the crest, black, 



the forehead and crown minutely speckled ^ , j 



__.^T _,.^ '■ \canetite, (^ ad. 



cordatus, c? ad. 



with white < 



( 



rf'. With a frontal patch of buffy white or dingy 

 buft". 

 g-. Forehead and crown buffy white, occipital ^^^g^^;^^ ^ ^^^ 



crest black < ,,' ^ , 



j cordatus, )^ ad. 

 h-. Forehead and crovra dingy buff, occipital crest , • 



, , , oj > i' , cauente, niv. 



black \ , , . 



( corartf«<s, juv. 



