156 Mr. E. Hargitt on. the Woodpeckers 



claws) — outer anterior 1"05, outer posterior O'Do^ inner ante- 

 rior 0*82, inner posterior 0'53. 



Adult female. Differs from tlie adult male in Laving the 

 forehead and the greater part of the crown black (the occi- 

 pital and nuchal crest alone being scarlet), and also in want- 

 ing the red malar patch, the cheeks being black ; a few of 

 the thigh-feathers having a black sagittate spot at or near the 

 tip. Total length 15"5 inches, culraen 1'9, wing 8'2, tail 6"1, 

 tarsus 1*3. 



This species has recently been described and figured by 

 Mr. Sharpe in 'The Ibis/ 1884, p. 317, pi. viii., from spe- 

 cimens obtained in Southern Palawan by one of Mr. E. 

 Lempriere's collectors. The British Museum contains an 

 adult female of the present species, procured by Mr, Steere 

 during his visit to the same island in 1874. Th. hargitti 

 cannot, with certainty, be said to be confined to the island 

 of Palawan, because in the British Museum are two birds 

 (formerly in the Gould Collection) labelled "^Manila,^^ which 

 are unmistakably true Th. hargitti ; but I would observe that 

 two other specimens, also in the British Museum (from the 

 Gould Collection), and likewise labelled Manila, are true 

 Th. javensis. It is hardly to be expected that these two 

 species would be found together, and the probability is that 

 the birds which correspond with the Palawan species were 

 not obtained in Luzon, but in some other island of the 

 Philippine group. 



8. Thriponax richardsi. 



Dnjocopus richardsi, Tristram, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 38(5, 

 pi. xxxi. 



Mulleripicus richardsi, Wall. Isl. Life, p. 370 (1880), 



Adult female (type of species). Brownish black, having a 

 blue-black gloss (with the following exceptions) : the lower 

 back and rump white, a few of the feathers of the lower 

 rump having a small black spot near the tip; the two central 

 feathers of the upper series of upper tail-coverts white, with 

 a large heart-shaped spot of black on their apical portion, 



