l-t4 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



feathers centred with black; tibial plumes fulvous white, 

 with black bases and a concealed white spot; under tail- 

 coverts black ; under vviug-coverts and axillaries fulvous 

 white, the lower coverts being sparingly spotted with black ; 

 edge of wing black : " upper mandible horay black, horny 

 whitish at the tip ; lower mandible horny black on the basal 

 third, the remaining portion yellowish'^ (in skin). Total 

 length 16"5 inches, culmen 1'9, wing 7'9, tail G'65, tarsus 

 1'35 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 09, outer pos- 

 terior 0"9, inner anterior 0*75, inner posterior 0'5. 



Young male. Resembles the adult male, but differs in having 

 the chill, throat, fore neck, and also the sides of the face 

 and neck (the orbital region excepted) dingy white, and the 

 black striations not so clearly defined ; the feathers of the 

 cheeks dull white, with diisky bases, a few assuming their 

 red tips ; the feathers of the hind neck tipped with dingy 

 white, as are also the lower scapulars and a few of the rump- 

 feathers, while some of the concealed outer feathers of the 

 latter region are becoming pure white, with a dusky black 

 spot at the tip ; under surface of the body less tinged with 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts whiter. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the 

 forehead and crown black, and in the absence of the red 

 malar patch, the cheeks being, like the rest of the face, white 

 striped with black ; the feathers of the throat and fore neck 

 without a trace of red on any of their tips. Total length 16'5 

 inches, culmen 1"9, wing 7*85, tail 6"65, tarsus 1*35. 



An adult male from the island of Panaon has the rump 

 partly white, some of the feathers having a dusky black 

 central stripe at the tip, others having the tip dusky black, 

 with a marginal stripe-like spot of white on each web, but 

 the greater part of the white patch on the rump is covered 

 by the black feathers of the lower back. An adult female 

 from the same locality, also in the collection of Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay, has the rump considerably damaged, but it does not 

 show any indication of having been white. It is scarcely 

 probable that the white feathers of the rump are exposed iu 

 life, as in only one sj)ccimen out of the five collected, by Mr. 



