43 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus lyngipicus. 



distinguished by its intensely black plumage, which contrasts 

 strongly with the white bearing and other markings, and 

 also by its broad and dark moustachial stripe, as well as the 

 auricular one; the striations on the underparts are also 

 broader. The type is in the British Museum, and was ob- 

 tained by Mr. Hugh Low in N.W. Borneo. 



E Mas. Brit. 

 a. ^ ad. N.W. Borneo {Hugh Low). 



15. Iyngipicus auritus. 



Petit Pic des Moluques, Daubent. PI. Enl. pi. 748. fig. 2. 

 Le petit Epeiche brun des Moluques, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 

 vii. p. 68. 



Picus moluccensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 439 (1788, ex Buff.); 

 Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 178 (1815) ; VieiU. N. Diet. d^Hist. 

 Nat. xxvi. p. 86 (1818); Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 177 

 (1822) ; Bonn, et VieHl. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1314 (1823) ; 

 Vigors, Mem. Raffl. p. 669 (1830) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 435 

 (1845, exclus. syn.) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 63 

 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 137 (1850) ; Temm. & Schl. Faun. 

 Japon. p. 74 (1850) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 61 

 (1863) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mas. p. 42 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. 

 B. ii. p. 184, no. 8588 (1870). 



Picus minor, Baffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 290 (1822, 

 nee L.). 



Picus variegatus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, no. 27 (1827, nee 

 Lath.) ; Malh. Monogi'. Picid. i. p. 139, pi. xxxiii. figs. 8-10 

 (1861) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 28 (1866) ; Gray, List 

 Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 43 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 184. 

 no. 8580 (1870). 



Tripsurus auritus, Eyton, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. 

 p. 229 (1845). 



Yungipicus moluccensis, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. 

 Co. ii. p. 675 (1854); Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854). 

 Yungipicus auritus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854). 

 Bceopipo variegata, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 54 

 (1863). 

 Bceopipo aurita, Cab. & Heine, t. cit. p. 59 (1863). 



