THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 199 



"Iris l>lticki.sli l)r-(»wii ; l)ill [»;ilc whitish slaL<', culiueii 'lark ; 

 r»Mt bluish slate." 



Total length 4H5 ; wing 2;{!) ; tail l-ST; tarsus :{7 ; bill liom 

 ga[)e 68 inm. 



It is unprofitable to discuss the i.icus of this wood[)uckcr until 

 a series from Java is available for comparison. In the meantime we 

 use this name for all the continental birds. TIk; Bornean race, ap- 

 j)arently distinct from the present <me, has already a name, M. 

 ntuUeri (Bp., Consp. A v. I, p. 181, 1850), and it is thereiVjre im- 

 probable that any mainland form is identical with the Javan one. 



Young birds have the bill pale throughout and the throat and 

 foreneck cream. A first year male from Bandon has tin- forehead 

 washed with re<l and the foreiieck slitrhtlv tinjxcd with the stime 

 colour. 



292. Thriponax javensis javensis (iiorsf.). 



/'ictif< jtcrensi.'<, Hui-stield, Tiaus. Linn. Hoc. xiii, 1821, p. 175 (Jmvh). 

 J'icus iim.ciimui malai/enais, BIjind, Joiirn. Asiat. Soc. JJeii^al, vi, 



1837, [K !)."52 (Johoie). 

 T/irijnmax jurenais, A., [». 1.35 (Lavnal) to Malewooii) ; C. ii, p. 27 ; 



B., p. 72 (Jmik e-'eylon or PiikK) ; F., p. 47 (Tian;;) ; Haigitt, 



ibis, 1885, p. 148 (Midewuuii). 



The Trang example (a female shot at Chong on 1 Ith iJecem- 

 ber 1909, wing 222 nun.), is interesting, having a few of the feathei's 

 of the rump faintly tipped with white, while Hargitt (Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mu«. xviii, p. 499) records an adult from Malewoon having tlu; 

 rump feath'^'s white with a subterminal band of black. Both birds, 

 of course, show the commencement of gradation to T. j. feddenl. 

 293. Thriponax javensis feddeni (Blanf.). 



MiillerijAcita fedileni, Bianfoid, Journ. Asiat. 8oc. Bengal, xxxii, 

 18(33, p. 75 (Burma, probably Ava) ; Hargitt, I1)is, 1885, p. 154 

 (Petchaburi). 



Thriponax javeiisitf feddeni, Stivseiiiann, Nov. Zool. xx. 191.'?, 

 p. 321 ; 1., p. 95 (Nortii 8iam). 



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!• Oylclenslolix\ KuiikI. Sv. Vet. Akad. Haiidl. M. Raker. Jourii. X. H. So*.-. Siam. iii, 1919. 



56, N". '2. 1916. (tii-sl part'. 



J. liohinson. .l.niiti. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Bakor. J0U171. X.H. Soc. Hiaiii, iii. 1919. 



K. h'loss, Ibis, 1918. (se<-oud ijarll. 



L. Kiiliinson and Kloss, ,)ourn. X.H. Sot-. Siaiu. M.I. Haker. .Jourii. X.H. Hoc. Siam, iv, W20. 



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