collected in Southern Palawan. 317 



Lord Tvveeddale was inclined to regard the structnral 

 difference in the nostrils as of specific rather than generic 

 importance. 



Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus^ Sharpe. 

 C/irysocolaptes erythrocephalus, Sharpe, t. c. p. 315 ; Tweedd. 

 t. c. p. 612; Wardlaw Ramsay, t. c. p. 655. 

 A fine adult male. 



TiGA EVERETTI, TwCcdd. 



Tiga everetti, Tweedd. t. c. p. 612 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, 

 /. c. p. 655. 



Tigajavanensis, Sharpe, t.c. p. 315 (nee Ljungh). 



It will be noticed that in my paper on Prof. Steere^s birds 

 I doubted the identity of the Palawan Tiga with the Bornean 

 T.javanensis. The only specimen brought by Prof. Steere 

 from Palawan was in poor condition, and I did not like to 

 separate the bird specifically ; but Lord Twecddale has since 

 named it Tiga everetti, and Mr. Lempriere's series amply 

 confirms the distinctness of the Palawan species. 



Thriponax hargitti, sp. n. (Plate VIII.) 

 Thriponax javensis,T^i.; Sharpe, /. c. p. 314. 

 Three specimens of this large black Woodpecker, which I 

 am afraid I wrongly identified in 1876, when Prof. Steere 

 procured in Palawan an example which I referred to T. ja- 

 vensis. On showing Mr. Lemprit^re's skins to my friend Mr. 

 Hargitt, the latter gentleman pointed out to me that they 

 could not belong to T.javensis, as they had a white rump, 

 whereas T. javensis is entirely black above. The white 

 rump is a character peculiar to a section of the genus Thri- 

 ponax, and therefore the nearest ally of the Palawan Black 

 Woodpecker is Thriponax feddeni of Burmah. It may, how- 

 ever, be distinguished from the latter species by its jjerfectly 

 black primaries. The Palawan Woodpecker may therefore 

 be diagnosed as follows : — 



Thriponax hargitti, sp. n. 

 T, similis T. feddeni, sed primariis basaliter nigris distin- 

 guendus : long. tot. 16-5, culmen 2'15, alae 8-3, caudae 

 6-6, tarsi 1-45. 



