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though it probably occurs there. Almost certainly absent in Masbate. 
Most abundant about dead trees in the open, and in low second growth. 
“Three males measure, 142 in length; wing, 81; tail, 38; culmen, 19; 
tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 15. A female measures, 152 in length; 
wing, 80; tail, 42; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 23; culmen, 18. 
Iris reddish brown to dark brown; legs and feet dirty olive-green; nails 
brown; bill nearly or quite black, leaden at tip. Food insects and larve.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
358. YUNGIPICUS MENAGEI Bourns and Worcester. 
MENAGE’S PYGMY WOODPECKER, 
Iyngipicus menagei BouRNS and WoRrcESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Oce. 
Papers (1894), 1, 14; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 220. 
Yungipicus menaget McGREGoR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 65. 
Sibuyan (Bourns € Worcester, McGregor). 
“Adult male-—General color of upper surface dark blackish brown; 
top of head uniform black; small spot above and behind the eye creamy 
white; scarlet stripes on sides of occiput shorter than in Y. maculatus 
and beginning further back; they are confluent on nape; behind and 
under the scarlet stripe is a partially concealed spot of creamy white; 
scapulars, interscapulars, and back barred with creamy white; rump 
creamy white, some of the feathers with narrow brownish black shaft- 
stripes ; upper tail-coverts brownish black, broadly edged with buffy white; 
tail brownish black, paler at base of feathers and with both webs of 
feathers spotted with pale buff; wing-coverts brownish black, each feather 
having one or two creamy white spots on outer web; wing brownish black; 
outer five primaries with two or three very narrow creamy white spots 
on outer web, or with no spots at all; tips of inner primaries and inner 
webs of all primaries spotted with creamy white; secondaries similarly 
spotted on both webs; ear-coverts rusty brown; creamy white malar-stripe 
extending back of ear-coverts; chin and narrow stripe down center of 
throat white, bordered by a broad stripe of brownish black on each side, 
the tips of feathers forming side stripes being brownish white; under 
surface with strong fulvescent wash; feathers of upper breast with dis- 
tinct brownish black shaft-marks; feathers of lower breast and abdomen 
with ill-defined streaks of the same color; feathers of flanks nearly white 
with only slight dark markings; under tail-coverts yellowish white, with 
dark shaft-stripes; under surface of tail slightly lighter than upper, but 
tips of two central pairs of feathers nearly black; under wing-coverts and 
axillars creamy white, spotted with brownish black ; bend of wing uniform 
brownish black. 
“The adult female lacks the scarlet head markings of the male and 
the creamy white spot, which is partially concealed in the male, is in 
the female quite conspicuous; otherwise the sexes are alike. 
