of the Genus Hemicercus. 247 



1. Hemicercus sordidus. 



Picus concretus (pt.), Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 70 (1827). 



Dendi'opicus sordidus, Eyton, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. 

 p. 229 (1845). 



Hemicercus concretus (nee Temm.)^ Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, 

 p. 195 ; id. Cat Mus. As. Soc. p. 54 (1849) ; Horsf. & Moore, 

 Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 650 (1856-58) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 

 p. 281 (1862) ; Gray, List Pieid. Brit. Mus. p. 70 (1868) ; 

 Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 47 (1874). 



Hemicercus concretus (pt.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 129 

 (1850) ; id. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854) ; Gray, Hand-1. 

 B. ii. p. 190, no. 8667 (1870). 



Hemicercus coccometojms, Reiclienb. Handb. Scans. Picinge, 

 p. 401, pi. dclvi. figs. 4364, 4365, S, ? ad. (1854); Sclat. 

 P. Z. S. 1863, p. 21] ', Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 354 (note). 



Hemicercus sordidus, Blyth, J, A. S. B. 1855, p. 272 j Cab. 

 & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 177 (1863) ; Gray, List Picid. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 70 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 190, no. 8666 

 (1870); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 46 (1874); Tweedd. Ibis, 

 1877, p. 291 ; Hume & Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 128; Hume, 

 op. cit. 1879, p. 52; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 240; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 181 (1879) ; Kelliam, Ibis, 

 1881, p. 338; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 40] (1882). 



Micropicus concretus (pt.), Malh. Mouogr. Picid. i. p. 187, 

 pi. xli. fig. 2, c? juv. (1861). 



Picus sordidus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 10 (1866); 

 Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 180 (1876). 



Hemicercus bt'ookeanus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 44 (1874). 



Adult male. Upper and middle back, likewise the scapu- 

 laries, black, eacb feather margined with and crossed by a 

 bar of yellowish white, the black forming two large spots 

 more or less rounded ; wing-coverts black, margined with 

 yellowish white; edge of wing yellowish white; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts black, the latter tipped with 

 whitish ; quills black, the inner webs of the primaries mar- 

 gined with yellowish white at the base, this colour increasing 

 in extent upon each inner feather, the innermost secondaries 

 being margined and deeply indented or barred with yellowish 



