184 MESSRS ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



a 6te rapports du Nepaul par M. Hodgson, J'avais en 1849 change 



le nom que j'avais donne primitivement h cette espece, pour la dedier 

 a I'honorablc directeur du Museum a Calcutta : mais les observations 

 r^it^rees qui ui'ont ^t^ addressees a ce sujet, m'ont decide k main- 

 tenir a regret le nom de rujinotus deja inscrit dans les musees de 

 I'Europe et dans plusieurs publications." (Monogr. Picid., Text 

 II (1862) pp. 1-3, De 46, Figs. 1, 2). Meanwhile, in 1850, Bonaparte 

 had recorded Picus rujinotus with a description ( Consp, Gen. 

 Av., p. 113 : Central Asia — Specimen in the British Museum), but too 

 late to .save the name which ranks as a synonym of P. hlythii. 



In the Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus. xviii, p. 395, the type of 

 P. rujinotus Maih., is stated to be a skin from Bengal. Baker 

 writes (Ibis, 1919 p. 203) "The name rujinotus is a synonym of 

 gularis. The specimen said to be the type is marked as having been 

 taken by McClelland in Assam : in the B. M. catalogue it is said to 

 come from Bengal, but the bird itself is a typical gularis from 

 Southern India " ! As shown, however, Nepal is the type locality of 

 Micropternus 'phaioce])S hlythi, and the type is one of Hodgson's 

 specimens in the Natural History Museum. 



This is a larger race than 31. h. phaioceps, getting larger 

 from South-East to North- West. 



(h). Micropternus brachyurus humei Kloss. 



Micropternus brachyurus humei, Ibi.s 1918, p. 109 (Kuiuaon). 

 The most north-westerly and the largest form. 



281. Dinopium javanense javanense (Ljung). 



Picus jaianensis, Ljungh, K., Vet. Ak. Nya Haiull. xviii, 1797, 

 p. 137 (Batavia, Java). 



Ghrysonotus javanensis, B., p. 64 (Puket or Jiink Seylon). 



Tiya javanensis, D., p. 72 (Patani) ; E., p. 99 (Patani) ; F., p. 47 

 (Trang) ; H., p. 95 (Bandon) ; Hesse, Mitt. Zool. Berlin, 6, 1912, 

 p. 188 (critical). 



Tiga javanensis javanensis, Stuart Baker, Ibis, 1919, p. 207 (criti- 

 cal) ; Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, ii, 1917, p. 324 

 (Patani). 



A. Huin« & Davisou, Stray Veatheis, vi, 1878. E. O. Griant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 1906. 



B. Miillcr, Die Ornis der Insel KalaiiKa, 18S'2. F. Robinson and Kloss, Iliis, 1910-11. 



C. (Jatus, Birds Brit. Bunnah, Vols, i & ii, 1883. C Gairdner, Journ. N. H. 8oc. Riam, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhote. I'.Z.H. 1901, Vol. i. H. Robinson, Journ. K. M, S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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