of the Genus Micropternus. 3 



1. Micropternus PHiEocEPs, 



Picus riifus (non Grael.), Gray, Hardw. 111. Ind. Zool. 

 pi. xxix. fig. 2 (1821-22) . 



Meiglyptes badius (non Raffl.), Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. 

 Misc. 1844, p. 85. 



Micropternus phaioceps, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. pp. 195, 551 

 (1845) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 60 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. 

 Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854) ; Beichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, 

 p. 403. no. 939, pi. dclvii. fig. 4373, ? , pi. dclviii. fig. 4377, 

 ? (1854) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. E.T. Co. Mus. ii. p. 667 

 (1856-58); Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 294(1862); id. Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 10; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xliii. p. 176 (1874); 

 Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 392; Hume, t. c. p. 472; id. & 

 Gates, op. cit. 1875, p. 72 ; Blytli & Wald. B. Burm. p. 77 

 (1875) ; Gammie, Str. F. 1876, p. 511 ; Hume, op. cit. 1877, 

 p. 480; id. op. cit. 1878, vi. pp. 145, 501 ; Ball, op. cit. 1878, 

 vii. p. 206 ; Cripps, t. c. p. 262; Scully, op. cit. 1879, pp. 249, 

 365; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 402 (1882). 



Meiglyptes brachyurus (non VieilL), Gray, Cat. Mamm. &c. 

 Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 117 (1846). 



Phaiopicos bhjthii, Malh. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1849, p. 534. 



Meiglyptes phaioceps, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 22 (1849) ; 

 id. List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 124 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. 

 p. 203. no. 8840 (1870). 



Meiglyptes rufinotus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 113 (1850). 



Phaiopicus 7'ufinotus, Main. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 1, pi. xlvi. 

 figs. 1, 2 (1862). 



Micropternus phaoceps, Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 411 ; Bulger, 

 op. cit. 1869, p. 157; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 88; id. op. cit. 

 1880, p. 112; Bingham, t. c. p. 164; Gates, op. cit. 1882, x. 

 p. 192; id. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 57 (1883). 



Picus rufinotus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 88 (1866); 

 Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 178 (1876). 



Micropternus burmanicus, Hume, P. A. S. B. 1872, pp. 

 70-71. 



Adult male. Entirely rufous, the top of the head dusky 

 brown ; the whole of the back, as well as the wings and tail 

 and their coverts, barred with black, the barring on the back, 



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