60 GECINUS DEDEMI. 
on the back; rump and upper tailcoverts scarlet-red; lower 
breast and vent olive-green; sides of body and under tail- 
coverts olive-green, tinged with dull red; tailfeathers blackish ; 
primaries blackish, the outer webs of the outer ones spotted 
with white, those of the inner ones with greyish olive; 
inner webs of the inner primaries largely spotted with 
white; iris dark carmine, bill black, feet lead-blue. Culmen 
87, wing 135, tail 100, tarso-met. 25 mm. 
Type collected on Volcano Sibajak, Batak Mountains, at 
an elevation of about 1450 m., 13 October 1909. (Coll. 
van Dedem n°. 124). 
This woodpecker is one of the most important discoveries 
of Baron van Dedem; I have the pleasure to name the bird 
after him. Only a single specimen has been collected. 
Myiophoneus castaneus Wardlaw Ramsay, an nov. subsp. 
Ad. o. Nearly allied to M. castaneus Wardlaw Ramsay 
(Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 16, pl. 1) from Mount 
Sago, Padang Highlands, Sumatra, but the blue-black of 
the breast extending on the belly; under wingcoverts darker, 
One specimen collected on Volcano Sibajak, Batak Moun- 
tains, at about 1400 m., 12 October 1909. (Coll. van Dedem 
ne120): 
This bird is either in a very adult stage of plumage or 
a representative of a new subspecies. Dr. Modigliani has 
collected a male specimen at Si Rambeh near Lake Toba, 
which Count Salvadori has identified with M. castaneus 
(Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, XXXII, 1892, p. 64). For com- 
parison I had only one adult male from the Padang 
Highlands. 
Heteroscops luciae Sharpe, an subsp. 
Ad. Q. Comes nearest to and is probably the same as 
the birds from Kina Balu, North Borneo, described by 
Sharpe under the name of Scops, and lateron, Heteroscops 
luciae (Ibis, 1888, p. 478; ibid. 1889, p. 77, pl. III), and 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
