480 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FEOM TIIE [1877. 



rewarded them as belonging to the same species. Dr. Sclater appears to be the first author who 

 distini-uished the Javan on account of its uniform red crest and back from the Bornean and 

 Malaccan form (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 211); but I may observe that I have an example collected in 

 East Java by Mr. Wallace, and marked a male, which has the more elongated crest-plumes red, 

 minMed quite as much with yellow as is to be found in true C. malacccnsis. The feathers also 

 of the interscapular region exhibit green mixed with red, and are matched by an example from 

 Malacca collected by Mr. Maingay. Mr. Buxton has two Sumatran examples in his collection : 

 one has the dorsal feathers green, largely dashed, centred, and tinged with red ; the other has 

 these feathers dull olive-green washed with red. 



20. MiCROPTEENUS BADIUS. 



Picus badius. Raffles, t. c. p. 280, "Sumatra" (1821). 



I provisionally retain the above title for the Sumatran Micropternus in preference to that of 

 bracJii/uriis, Vieill. (N. Diet. xxvi. p. 103, 1818), because the type of Vieillot's species is said to 

 have come from Java, and we cannot rely on Malherbe's statement that the two are specifically 

 identical. Between Malaccan and typical examples I am unable to detect any good distinction. 

 Many Malaccan specimens have the crown very pale ; but this is also to be observed in one of 

 Mr. Buxton's birds. The Bornean (south-east and north-east) species, II. hadiosus, appears to 

 differ in having the terminal portions of the rectrices uniform unhanded brown and a somewhat 

 longer bill. Count Salvador! [t. c. p. 59) mentions as a distinctive character the eye of the male 

 being completely surrounded by red points or dots. In a N.E. Bornean male collected by 

 Ibis, 1877, Mr. Everett, and in another by Mr. Lowe (mus. nostr.), this is the case ; and I have not observed 

 p. 290. j.j^g g^jjjg character in the multitude of Malaccan birds I have examined, nor is it to be found in 

 Mr. Buxton's Sumatran males ; but it is to be observed in examples from Malabar, and it may 

 merely indicate the full breeding male plumage of all the members of the genus. 



21. MeiglYptes tristis. 



Picus tristis, Horsf. t. c. p. 177, "Java " (1820); Raffles, t. c. p. 290, « Sumatra" (1821). 



Not distinguishable from Bornean and Malaccan individuals. The length of wing is very 

 variable in adults of this species ; and in one of Mr. Buxton's specimens, an adult male, the bill 

 is remarkably short. 



22. Meiglyptes tukki. 



Picris tukki. Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167, " Sumatra." 



Malaccan examples {Ilcmicerciis hrunneus, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106) do not difier. 



23. Dendrotypes analis. 



Picus analis, Horsf. f. c. p. 177, "Java " (1820). 



Bill longer, otherwise identical with typical examples. This Woodpecker also inhabits the 

 island of Madura. 



