LICHTENSTEINIPICUS. 403 
Male.—Forehead, crown, and occiput light crimson; lores, a narrow 
line over eye, cheeks, and ear-coverts light golden yellow; mantle, back, 
rump, secondaries, and secondary-coverts crimson, not so bright as crown ; 
alula, primary-coverts, and primaries edged with dull golden yellow; 
chin yellow with a black line down the middle and a black line on each 
side; neck and fore breast blackish brown, each feather with a large spot 
of pale yellow or yellowish buff; rest of under parts uniform yellow; tail 
dark brown. Iris carmine; bill dark brown above, greenish below; legs 
pale yellow; nails dark horn-brown. Length, 260; wing, 148; tail, 90; 
culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 26. 
Female.—Similar to the male but differs in having the crown and crest 
golden yellow like the sides of head. Wing, 145; tail, 94; culmen from 
base, 39; tarsus, 24. 
“Habits like those of C. lucidus. Seven males from Masbate measure, 
274 in length; wing, 144; tail, 80; culmen, 35; tarsus, 24; middle toe 
with claw, 31. Three females, length, 283; wing, 144; tail, 85; culmen, 
34; tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 31. Iris red; legs and feet light 
yellow; upper mandible black, lower dull green.” (Bourns and Wor- 
cester MS.) 
Genus LICHTENSTEINIPICUS Bonaparte, 1854. 
Culmen slightly curved for its entire length; nasal ridge prominent ; 
nostrils partly concealed by plumes; occipital crest short; plumage slate- 
black; chin, throat, and sides of neck with a minute white spot at the 
tip of each feather. 
Species. 
a, Plumage black; malar region and forehead crimson in the male. 
funebris (p. 403) 
a’, Plumage slaty smoke-gray; malar region scarlet in the male. 
fuliginosus (p. 404) 
369. LICHTENSTEINIPICUS FUNEBRIS (Valenciennes). 
FUNEREAL WOODPECKER,. 
Picus funebris VALENCIENNES, Dict. Sc. Nat. (1826), 40, 179. 
Microstictus funebris Hareirt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 492; 
SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 230;* McGrecor. and WorcrstTER, Hand- 
List (1906), 66. 
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Luzon (Meyer, Heriot, Steere Exp., Whitehead, 
McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Eap.). 
Male.—Black with a slight gloss on wings and back; throat and abdo- 
men smoky brown; lores, forehead, cheeks, and a wide space around each 
eye deep crimson ; chin, throat, sides and back of neck with a small white 
spot at the tip of each feather. Iris pale yellow.; bill white; legs plum- 
beous; nails light horn-blue. Length, 330; wing, 156; tail, 138; culmen 
from base, 37; tarsus, 29. 
* In Sharpe’s Hand-List, Calayan is given as one of the localities for this species, 
a slip for Catanduanes; no woodpecker is known from Calayan. 
