52 piciD^. 



north as Bopyin, south of Mergui, and also into Sumatra and 

 Borneo. Common in the extreme south of Tenasserim. 



Hahits, 4'c. Like P. p?/*v7to^is, this species is said by Davison to 

 be very shy and to keep much to the underwood of the evergreen 

 forests ; it avoids the larger trees, is genei'ally found iu pairs and 

 utters incessantly a sharp metallic note. 



Genus MIGLYPTES, Swainson, 1837. 



Bill of moderate length, culmen much curved ; no nasal ridge ; 

 nostrils round, exposed ; chin-angle halfway between gape and 

 tip ; fourth or outer hind toe longer than third or outer front toe ; 

 first toe (hallux) short. A nuchal crest. AVing rounded : all tail- 

 feathers pointed, the outer pair just extending beyond the lower 

 coverts. Plumage brown or black and buff, more or less in 

 jilternating bars. 



This genus is restricted to Burma and the Malay countries, 

 three species being found in British Burma. The coloration is 

 peculiar and the habits are imperfectly known, the nest not liaAing 

 hitherto been found. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Back with buff cross-bauds ; tail-feathers 

 spotted. 

 a'. Head barred above ; rump uniform buff. M. grammithora.v, p. 52. 

 b'. Head not barred above; rump barred 



like back M. tukld, p. .53. 



h. Back without cross-bands, tail unspotted. M.jugularis, p. -54. 



980. Miglyptes grammithorax. The Ftdvons-rumped Barred 

 Woodpecker. 



Meig-lyptes tristis, apiid Bhith, Cat. p. GO; StoUczka, J. A. S. B. 



xxxix, pt. 2, p. 294 ; Blyth., Birds Burnt, p. 77 ; Hume ^- Dav. 



S. F. vi, pp. 131, 501 ; Hume, Cat. no. 165 ter {7iec Picus tristis, 



Horsf.). 

 Phaiopicus grammithorax, ikfw/^. Picidcs, ii, p. 12, pi. xlviii, figs. 4-6 



(1862). 

 Miulyptes grammitliorax, Nicholson, Ibis, 1879, p. 165; Hume, 



S. F. viii, p. 497 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 59 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1884, 



p. 191 ; id. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 385. 



Coloration. Male. Lores, anterior half of orbital region, point 

 of chin, lower back, and rump uniform buff; a malar stripe pale 

 crimson ; remainder of the bird blackish brown barred with buff, 

 very closely on the head and neck all round and on the breast, 

 the barring becoming wider behind and still wider on the abdomen, 

 but the bars are broader still on the back, scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 tertiaries, and upper tail-coverts ; wing and tail-feathers with 

 buff spots on both webs ; under wing-coverts and axillaries buff 

 with a iew dark brown spots. 



