the District of Lampony, S.E. Sumatra. 289 



19. Callolophus malaccensis. 



Picus malaccensis, Lath. Incl. Oni. i. p. 241^ '^^ Malacca ^^ 

 (1790). 



Count Salvador! has remarked [t. c. p. 51) that this species 

 and C. miniatus of Java are distinct^ and that I had erred 

 (Ibis^ 1871, p. 165) when, following Malherbe and others, I 

 regarded them as belonging to tbe same species. Dr. Sclater 

 appears to be the first author who distinguished the Javan 

 on account of its uniform red crest and back from the Bornean 

 and Malaccan form (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 211); but I may ob- 

 serve that I have an example collected in East Java by Mr. 

 Wallace, and marked a male, which has the more elongated 

 crest-plumes red, mingled quite as much with yellow as is to 

 be found in true C. malaccensis. The feathers also of the inter- 

 scapular region exhibit green mixed with red, and are matched 

 by an example from Malacca collected by Mr. Maingay. Mr. 

 Buxton has two Sumatran examples in his collection : one 

 has .the dorsal feathers green^ largely dashed, centred, and 

 tinged with red ; the other has these feathers dull olive-green 

 washed with red. 



20. MiCROPTERNUS BADIUS. 



Picus baclius, Raffles, t.c. p. 289, "Sumatra'' (1821). 



I provisionally retain the above title for the Sumatran 

 Micropternus in preference to that of brachyurus, Vieill. (N. 

 Diet. xxvi. p. 103, 1818), because the type of Vieillot's species 

 is said to have come from Java, and we cannot rely on Mal- 

 herbe's statement that the two are specifically identical. Be- 

 tween Malaccan and typical examples I am unable to detect 

 any good distinction. Many Malaccan specimens have the 

 crown very pale ; but this is also to be observed in one of Mr. 

 Buxton's birds. The Bornean (south-east and north-east) 

 species, M. badiosus, appears to differ in having the terminal 

 portions of the rectrices uniform unhanded brown and a some- 

 what longer bill. Count Salvador! (t. c. p. 59) mentions as a 

 distinctive character the eye of the male being completely 

 surrounded by red points or dots. In a N.E. Bornean male 

 collected by Mr. Everett, and in another by Mr. Lowe 



