10 Mr. E, Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Legge, however, this species is Avidely distributed in tiiat 

 island, although perhaps more rare in the north : it appears to 

 be met with throughout the low country^ and Mr. Bligh has 

 seen it up to about 2000 feet elevation. Ceylonese examples 

 of this species are darker above and more distinctly barred 

 with black. 



4. MiCaOPTERNUS BRACHYUttUS. 



Picus brachyurus, Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 103 

 (1818) ; Bonn. & Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1324 (1823) ; Wagl. 

 Syst. Av. no. 71 (1827) ; Drap. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. xiii. 

 p. 505 (1828) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 89 (1866) ; 

 Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 145 (1876). 



Picus budius, Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 289 (1822) ; 

 Less. Compl. Butf. ix. p. 313 (1837j ; Sundev. Consp. Av. 

 Picin. p. 90 (1866) ; Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 143 (1876). 



Hemicircus badius, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106. 



Micropternus badius, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 551 (1815 

 id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 61 (1819) ; Reichenb. Handb 

 Scans. Picina;, p. 403. no. 910, pi. dclviii. fig. 4374 (1854) 

 Horsf. & Moore, Cut. B. E.I. Co. Mus. p. 666 (1856-58) 

 Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 319; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 289 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 184 (1879) ; Nicholson, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 141 ; id. op. cit. 1882, p. 55. 



Meighjptes brachyurus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 22 (1849); 

 Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 113 (1850) ; Gray, List Picid. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 125 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 203. no. 8843 

 (1870). 



Phaiopicos brachyurus, Malh. N. Classif. Mem. Acad. Metz, 

 1818-19, p. 337; id. Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 536. 



Micropternus gularis (pt.), Reichenb. Handb. Scans. 

 Picinai, p. 403. no. 941, pi. dclviii. figs. 4375, 4376, ? S 

 (1854). 



Micropternus brachyurus, Bp. Consp. Yolucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1851) ; Gray, List Gen. 1855, p. 94; Hume, Str. F. 1877, 

 pp. 480, 481 ; id. & Davison, op. cit. 1878, vi. p. 145 ; Hume, 

 op. cit. 1879, pp. 52, 88 ; Miiller, Orn. Ins. Salanga, p. 72 

 (1882) ; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 58 (1883). 



