MIGLTPTES. 



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FeviiaU. No malar stripe. 



Bill black ; irides deep brown or dull red ; edge of eyelids blat-k; 

 legs and feet dirty green (Davison). 



Length 7 ; tail 2 ; wing 3-9 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from gape -9. 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, ex- 

 tending north into Tenasserim as far as the base of Nwalabo 

 mountain, near Tavoy. 



Habits, 4-c. As described by Davison, this species^ is_ usually 

 found in dense tree-jungle, and generally in pairs ; it is never 

 seen on the ground, but always ou trunks and branches of trees. 

 The note of all three species of Mighjptes is similar, a rolling 

 Tcirr-r-r. 



The true M. iristis is confined to Java and has the middle 

 of the breast and abdomen black without bars. Specimens of 

 M. grammitliorax from Nwalabo, Tenasserim, have the breast and 

 abdomen brown, almost without bars, but not black. 



981. Miglyptes tukki. The Buff-necked Barred Woodpecker. 



Picus tukki, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167. 



Hemicercus bnmneus, Uyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106. 



Meiglyptes pectoralis, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 60 (iiec Picus pectorahs, 



Latham). 

 Meiglyptes brunneus, Horsf. S,- M. Cat. ii, p. 668. 

 Meiglyptes marginatus, Meinio., StoUczM, J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ^, 



p. 291. 

 Miglyptes tukki, Hnme, S. F. iii, p. 319 ; id. Cat. no. 16o qiunt. ; 



Mu7ne Sr Bav. S. F. vi, p. 132 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 61 ; Haryitt, 



Ibis, 1884, p. 193 ; id. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 888. 



Coloration. Male. Dull dark olive or brownish olive, head 

 uniform and unbarred above and on the sides ; a crimson malar 

 band ; a large buif patch on each side of the neck ; back, scapulars, 

 rump, tail, and wing-coverts with narrow buff cross-bars through- 

 out ; quills with small marginal buff spots on the outer, and larger 

 spots on the inner webs; tail-feathers with narrow bars inter- 

 rupted near the shaft ; chin and throat very finely barred with 

 buff ; fore neck uniform blackish brown ; breast and abdomen dark 

 brown with narrow buff bands ; middle of breast almost uniform ; 

 lower wmg-coverts and top of wing buff. 



Female. No crimson malar band. 



Upper mandible black, lower mandible plumbeous blue, in some 

 greenish ; irides brown ; legs and feet dull or brownish green. 



Length about 8-6; tail 2-7; wing 4-1; tarsus -9; bill from 

 gape I'l, 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, 

 ranging into the extreme south of Tenasserim. 



Habits, 4fc. Very similar to those of the last species, this Wood- 

 pecker being found in dense forest. 



