422 MR. E. C. STUART BAKER ON 
“ As regards vittatus and its eggs, the male was taken 
“on the nest with the clutch. There were also some clutches 
“of eggs taken of the little Pied Wood-pecker, and in several 
“instances the male bird was caught on the eggs or shot as he 
“left the nest-hole. I think I have also known two similar 
“instances with Tiga javanensis.” 
I may remark that I have observed the same habit with 
both the genera Chrysocolaptes and Chrysophlegma. Of these the 
male undoubtedly does the major share of the incubation, at all 
events, by day. By night I think with many Wood-peckers, both 
parents sleep within the nest-hole, but it is of course difficult to 
make really accurate observations after dark. 
As regards Micropternus, male and female are too much 
alike to make it possible to discern which leaves the nest-hole 
unless the bird is actually shot, and as they nearly all lay their 
eggs in tree-ants’ nests, it is never possible to catch them on the 
nest itself. 
155. BLYTHIPICUS PORPHYROMELAS. 
Venilia porphyromelas, Boie. Briefe. Geschr. aus Ostend. p 143 
(1832). 
2 Klong Bang Lai, P. Siam, 29.1.16. 
The generic name Venilia is preoccupied in both Lepidop- 
tera and Mollusca, and the next oldest name appears to be 
Blythipicus of Bonaparte (1850), and however ridiculous some 
ornithologists may consider such hybrid names to be, this is no 
reason for discarding them. 
This specimen is quite typical, and calls for no remark, 
156. MIGLYPLES TRISTIS GRAMMITHORAX, 
Phaiopicus grammithorax, Malh. Picidae, ii, p. 12, pl. xlviii, fig. 6 
(1862). 
? Tung Song, P. Siam, 26,.9.15. 
2 Klong Wang Hip, P. Siam, 29.9.15. 
¢ Klong Bang Lai, P. Siam, 26.1.16. 
Two of the above three specimens are noticeable for the 
absence of all tinge of rufous in the pale markings of the 
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