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liis Iji'owii. Kill very dark Ijiown, plumbeous ;it base ol' lower 

 uKiiidible. JNIoiitli <lusky flesh. Legs greyish brcwn. Claws homy. 



Diiifri'iutivii. The ract- of the llutbus Woodpecker found iu 

 ISiaui — at all events from iiangkok northwards — appi-ars to be the one 

 which Hume described from Thayetmyo. Pegu. It is intermediate 

 between the larger and paler northern form, M. h. phaeoceps, and the 

 darker and smaller southern race, M. h. hrarliijtrraK, the distinguishing 

 characteristics of which are given by Blanford [up. cit., ]). -j-j) in his 

 key to the three Indian "siJecies" of this genus then recognised. The 

 author mentioned admits that they are "merely geographical races, 

 separated l)y very slight characters, and tending greatly to pass into 

 each other." This being the case, they mu.st all, according to the law 

 of priority, be described as subspecies i)f lirachi/arus, which is A'ieillot's 

 namedalin^ tVom 1818, whereas iihaiocepf: (of which the spelling was 

 subse(|iiently changed to i>hiU'orcps by Hume) was adopted by Blyth. 

 only in 18 lo. J have birds from Northern, Eastern and Central Siam 

 among which there are specimens, from each of those divisions, w hieh 

 might be assigned lo either group, it IJlaiil'ord s test be a])pliel. 



.Vs regards size, the wing-measurements of my birds var}- Irom 

 I2IJ mm., in si)ecimens from ikngkok and Samkok, Central ISiam, to 

 ioLmm. in one from Meh Lem. in the Northern division of the 

 country. It may also be noted that, of a pair obtained with one shot 

 at Ayuthia. the wing of the male in 120 mm., while that of the 

 female is 1-3U mm. The longest wing-measuivment given by (Jylden- 

 stoljje is 127 nnn. 



My one Bangkok specimen (a male) was obtained near Klong 

 Tui on 1 Jth .lime I !•].:>. 



71. Tiga javaneusis intermedia Blyth. 'T/tc (luUlvii- 

 bitrkal J'/irrc-iuc'/ ]\'uu<h)cc/ccr. 



/'/</. / /r;c,ni«».>(.v (pari.), Blaiifoiil, l-';uni. Brit. I nilia, birJ>. iii (Ih'.l-j), 

 p. til: O.L;ilvio-(iiaiil, ['-.x^c. M;il. Z'U'l.. ili (I'.tO-j), p. W: r...biii-..ii 

 and KL.ss. lliis, Hill, p. 17: (vvUlciisi.ilpo l'.M:3. p. I'.l: WiUiainsuii, 

 .liiinii. X. 11. S. Siaiii. i, p. 11)>*. 



Tii/'i /•ii:nii i{Kif iiil'-iDi'-iliii. ( i\ liieiisL.iliir I'.tll). ]'. !'5. 



VUL. 11, ULt. lyii. 



