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Female.—Similar to the male but with no crimson anywhere on the 
head ; the cheeks, like the throat, spotted with white. Length, 315; wing, 
155; tail, 133; culmen from basé@ 34; tarsus, 27. 
This species is fairly common in the lowland forests of Luzon. 
370. LICHTENSTEINIPICUS FULIGINOSUS (Tweeddale). 
SOOTY WOODPECKER. 
Mulleripicus fuliginosus TWEEDDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 
534; Proe. Zool. Soc. (1877), 821, pl. 83. 
Microstictus fuliginosus HareittT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 492; 
GRANT, Ibis (1897), 246; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 230; McGrecor 
and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 66. 
Leyte (Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Hxp., Bourns & Worcester, 
Celestino) ; Samar (Steere Hxp., Whitehead). 
“Adult male (type of species).—Plumage slaty gray, the whole of the 
body, wings, and tail uniform, the head (except the loral and orbital 
region) and neck spotted with white, the spots on the top of the head 
and on the nape having a striped character, those on the chin and throat 
larger and more or less triangular in shape; a large patch of brilliant 
scarlet covers the entire malar region and extends upwards nearly to the 
eye; shafts of the quills and of the tail-feathers dusky black. ‘Iris naples- 
yellow.’ (Hverett.) Length, 305; culmen, 41; wing, 160; tail, 110; 
tarsus, 30.” (Hargitt.) 
“Adult female.—Closely resembles the female of J/. funebris, but may 
be distinguished by the general color of the plumage being grayer; the 
ground-color of the chin and throat gray like the cheeks, and the white 
dots distinctly larger. In the female of M. funebris the chin and throat 
are brownish gray, and contrast with the blackish gray cheeks. Length, 
269; culmen, 37; wing, 147; tail, 104; tarsus, 28.” (Grant.) 
Genus MULLERIPICUS Bonaparte, 1854. 
Of large size; bill very powerful; proximal half of culmen curved, 
distal half straight; nostrils large, oval, and covered by feathers; nasal 
ridge prominent; feathers of head short; no crest. 
371. MULLERIPICUS PULVERULENTUS (Temminck). 
GREAT SLATY WOODPECKER, 
Picus pulverulentus TEMMINCK, Pl]. Col. (1826), 389. 
Hemilophus pulverulentus Hareirt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 494. 
Alophonerpes pulverulentus SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 230. 
Mulleripicus pulverulentus McGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 66. 
Balabac (Everett); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Steere Hxp., Bourns € 
Worcester, Celestino, White). Sumatra, Cochin China, Malay Peninsula, Burmese 
provinces, northwestern India, Java, Borneo, Himalayas. 
Adult male——Blackish slate, abdomen and crissum lighter ; feathers of 
crown, occiput, neck, sides of neck, and breast with small gray tips pro- 
