6 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



south of that placC;, as well as in the same locality, and that^ 

 with this exception, they have all been true M. brachyurus. 



2. MiCROPTERNUS BADIOSUS. 



Meighjptes badiosus, Temm. Mus. Lugd. ; Bp. Consp. Gen. 

 Av. i. p. 113 (1850); Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 126 

 (1868); id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 203. no. 8646 (1870). 



Micropter-nus badiosus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854); Reichenb. Handb. Scans. PiciniB, p. 404. no. 942 

 (1854) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 58 (1874) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 

 1875, p. 103; Hume, Str. F. 1877, pp. 480, 481 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 243 ; id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 792 ; id. Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 89. 



Phaiopicus badiosus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 6 (1882). 



Picus badiosus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Piciu. p. 91 (1866) ; 

 Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 143 (1876). 



Adult male. Entire plumage rich rufous, slightly dusky 

 on the forehead and crown ; back, scapularies, and wing- 

 coverts uniform, the concealed portion of some of the fea- 

 thers having blackish barring ; bastard wing and primary- 

 coverts barred with black on the inner webs ; quills barred 

 with black upon both webs, the barring on the inner webs 

 broader, the bar-like spots on the outer webs of some of the 

 inner primaries almost obsolete, tips of primaries black ; 

 shafts of quills brown ; rump-feathei's black at the base_, the 

 apical portion having an intermarginal V-shapcd black mark- 

 ing ; upper tail-coverts with a similar marking on the apical 

 portion, and barred with black at the base ; tail-feathers 

 barred with black on the basal half, the width of the black 

 and rufous barring being equal; apical half black; dwarf 

 feather barred with black along its whole length ; shafts 

 black ; nasal plumes, forehead, and crown slightly dusky ; 

 occipital feathers elongated ; the feathers surrounding the 

 eye tipped with crimson ; cheeks, chin, and throat like the 

 underparts, the feathers margined with huffy whitish ; sides 

 of the face and neck, fore neck, and under surface of the 

 body uniform, the flanks and under tail-coverts with almost 

 obsolete blackish barring ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 



