of the Genus Thripouax. 145 



Everett are they observed without removing the upper black 

 feathers, and the skins are carefully made up. It would 

 be almost impossible for Mr. Everett, with his experience, to 

 overlook such a character, or that it should be lost if it had 

 existed. In the female bird from Panaon many of the feathers 

 of the under surface of the body have a large central stripe or 

 patch of black, and some have a small central stripe, more or 

 less concealed by the buff tips of the overlying feathers. 



It is difficult to account for the peculiar phase of plumage 

 exhibited by this specimen, which appears to be fully adult, 

 and there is no reason for imagining the stage of plumage to 

 be intermediate between the young and (what 1 take to be) 

 the full-plumaged bird, which has the underparts uniform. 

 It is, most likely, nothing more than an abnormally marked 

 bird. 



This species, so far as is at present known, is confined to 

 the islands of Leyte and Panaon, of the Philippine group. 

 The only specimens I have seen are those sent by Mr. Everett 

 which form part of Capt. Wardlaw Ramsaj'^s collection. The 

 types are from S. Leyte. 



3. Thriponax javensis. 



Picus javensis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 175 

 (1822), (^; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 159 (1826), S ; Vig. 

 Mem. Raffl. p. 668 (1830); Less. Compl. Buff. ix. p. 314 



(1837), c?. 



Picus leucogaster, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 178 (1826), 



? ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 7, ? (1827) ; id. Isis, 1829, 



p. 509, S ; Less. Compl. Buff. ix. p. 315 (1837) ; Temm. PI. 



Col. iv. pi. 501, S (1838); Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 9 



(1866) ; Giebel, Thes. Oru. p. 162 (1876). 



Picus horsfieldii, Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 5, (J (1827). 



Dryocopus javensis, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 326. 



Drijocopus leucogaster, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 326. 



Picus maximus malayensis. Bland, J. A. S. B, vi. p. 953 

 (1837). 



Hemilophus leucogaster. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846), ? . 



Hemilophus javensis. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846), J ; 



