YUNGIPICUS. 393 
Species.* 
a‘, A red spot or patch on each side of occiput, sometimes confluent (males). 
bt. Upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts strongly barred with white. 
ct. Ear-coverts brown. 
d'. White eyebrow-stripes very wide; nape and ground-color of back 
brownish black. Red patches on each side of the occiput very small, 
widely separated from one another by the nape.. validirostris (p. 395) 
d*?. White eyebrow-stripes narrow and ill-defined; nape and ground-color 
of back olive-brown. Large red patches on each side of the occiput, 
nearly confluent on the nape. 
é, White eyebrow-stripé extending to above ear-coverts. 
S maculatus (p. 394) 
e?. White eyebrow-stripe reduced to a small patch........ menagei (p. 395) 
c?. Ear-coverts black; pale buff eyebrow-stripes very wide, extending down 
each side of the neck. 
d'. Tail black barred with buff; ground-color of under parts pale buff, 
rather darker on the chest. A well-defined red patch on each side 
Cas Le) Ae DCKO) 9 PUN ra ry aE Ele sc Pe SRR ot ope eer leytensis (p. 396) 
d?. Tail buff, barred with black; under pau pale saffron-yellow, inclining 
to orange or tawny-buff on the chest. A well-defined red patch on 
each side'of the occiput .....--2- 22.2222 fulvifasciatus (p. 396) 
b°. Upper back, seapulars, and wing-coverts practically uniform, only a few 
white bars and marks down the middle of the back. Large red occiput 
patches confluent on the nape and forming a complete band; wide white 
eyebrow-stripes; chest bright saffron-yellow...................... ramsayi (p. 397) 
a*. No red on the head; other characters as in the males (females). 
356. YUNGIPICUS VALIDIROSTRIS (Blyth). 
LARGE-BILLED PYGMY WOODPECKER. 
Picus validirostris Buytu, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soe. (1849), 64. 
Iyngipicus maculatus Harcirt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 332 
(part); Suarpr, Hand-List (1900), 2, 220 (part). 
Iyngipicus validirostris BourNs and WorcESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Oce. Papers (1894), 1, 52; Grant, Ibis (1895), 114 (critical notes). 
Yungipicus validirostris McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 65. 
Car-pen-te-ro ma-liit’, Manila; cu-di-nang’-a, Benguet. 
Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Jagor, Méllendorff, 
Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Min- 
doro (Steere Exp., Everett, Porter). 
Adult male.—Above blackish brown; browner on forehead and crown ; 
ear-coverts brown; a wide white stripe from eye to nape; a very short, 
narrow, red line on side of occiput; middle of throat white, with a black- 
ish line on each side and above this a white line; rest of ae ue 
i The ay, is modiiied ion that given by Grant, Ibis (1896), 471. 
