1875.] 



THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 



313 



Australian S. walleri, Diggles, with tlie Indian species. In the Liverpool Museum Mr. Blyth 



identified two Philippine examples of Scelostrix with S. Candida (Ibis, 18G5, p. 30). Later 



{op. cit. 1866, p. 251) that gentleman expressed less confidence in the correctness of his original 



opinion {conf. op. cit. 1867, p. 184). But in 1870 (oj?. cit. p. IGO) Mr. Blyth surmised that the Tr. Z. S. ix. 



various species above named would be found to be identical. It is perfectly distinct from 



S. rosenbergi. 



PICARL^. 



PICID^. 



p. 146. 



Theiponax, Cabanis. 



28. Thriponax javensis. 



Picm javensis, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 175, 6, "Java" (1820); Waldcn, Ibis, 1871, 

 p. IGlf. 



Picus horsjieldii, Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 15, no. 5, 6 (1827), ex Horsf. 



Pious leucogaster, Wagler, I.e. no. 7, ?, "Mindanao;" Isis, 1829, p. 50D, 6 ; Reinw., 

 Temm. PL Col. 501, 6 , "iles de la Sonde" (1830). 



Pri/ojncus leucogaster (Reinw.), Malh. Monogr. i. p. 47, pi. 13. f. 4, d , 5, ? . 



Hab. Luzon, January and April [Meyer) ; Mindanao {Wagler). 



The crest in these Luzon examples is of a brighter red than in Malaccan and Javan 

 individuals ; it is vermilion, as in T. craiofurdi, whereas in T. hodgsoni and in Malaccan and 

 Javan T. javensis it is blood-red. The proportion of white at the insertion of the quills 

 corresponds with what is found in Malaccan examples {conf. Walden, /. c). On the outer web 

 of the fourth primary of a female a small albescent terminal spot is indicated. In the other 

 examples there is no trace. Altogether the Luzon Thriponax closely resembles the Javan and 

 Malaccan. By the following table of dimensions it will, however, be seen that it is a smaller 

 bird. 



Lonsitudo 



MuLLERiPicus, Bonaparte. 



29. * MULLEKIPICUS FUNEBEIS. 



Picus funebris, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. vol. 40, p. 179, ?," Philippines " (1826); Malh. 

 Monogr. i. p. 54, pi. 15. fig. 1, <?, 2, $ . 



t [Anted, p. 103.— Eb.] 



