16 On the Woodpeckers of the Genus Micropterniis. 



tipped with crimson ; under surface of the body i-ufous-brown, 

 brighter on the chest and breast ; the thighs barred rufous 

 and bhack; under tail-coverts rufous, faintly barred with 

 black ; under wing-coverts rufous, covered with bar-like 

 spots of black ; axillaries rufous, striped with blackish : 

 "irides ochreous white; bill deep bluish grey, with the 

 greater part of the lower mandible and edge of the upper 

 greenish yellow; legs and claws slate-colour, tinged with 

 green" {Sivinhoe). Total length 7 5 inches, culmen I'O, 

 wing 4-5, tail 2'4, tarsus 0"85 ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior O'OS, outer posterior 0-6,2, inner anterior 0-47, inner 

 posterior 02. 



Achtlt female (type). — Differing from the adult male in 

 the absence of the crimson spot under the eye. Swiuhoe 

 gives the soft parts the same as in the male. Total length 

 the same as in the male. Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 

 1"05, wing 4-75, tail 2'45, tarsus 0"87. 



This species was first procured by SAvinhoe at Tai-ping-sze, 

 Central Hainan, and appears to be confined to that island. 

 M. holroydi may be distinguished from M.fokiensis by its 

 very much smaller size, its darker crown and occipital 

 feathers, and the paler centres to the throat-feathers. The 

 measurements of the two species are as follows : — 



Mr. Hume (Str. F. 1877, p. 481) makes M. holroydi (with 

 a query) a synonym of M. phceoceps, but says that he has 

 not seen the bird. 



