558 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



Negros. All I have at present to say on these birds has 

 already been published in my previous paper on the birds of 

 Mindoro (see p. 472) 



64. Chrysocolaptes xanthocephalus^ Walden & Layard ; 

 Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit, Mus. xviii. p. 457 (1890) ; Steere, 

 List Birds & Mamm. Philippines, p. 8 (1890) ; Eagle Clarke, 

 Ibis, 1894, p. 534. 



The Negros Crimson-backed Woodpecker is represented 

 by a fine series, and both old and young were collected. The 

 latter differ from the adults in having the eyebrow-stripes, 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts pale yellowish buff instead of golden 

 yellow, and the lower breast and belly dirty yellowish buff; 

 otherwise the plumage is the same. 



65. Thriponax hargttti, Sharpe ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xviii. p. 505 (1890) ; Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1894, p. 534, 

 1895, p. 474 ; Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 473. 



Thriponax philippinensis , Steere, List Birds & Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 8 (1890). 



As briefly indicated in my previous paper on the birds of 

 Mindoro [cf. p. 473), T. philippinensis, Steere, is undoubtedly 

 a synonym of T. hargitti. The types have been compared 

 and agree in all particulars. 



Mr. Whitehead has sent us a series of this bird from the 

 neighbourhood ol the Cauloon volcano, and it has already, 

 quite correctly, as it now appears, been placed on the Negros 

 list of birds by Mr. Clarke. It has also been recorded (under 

 the name of T. i^hilippinensis) from Masbate, Guimaras, and 

 Panay, as well as from the island of Palawan, where the types 

 of T. hargitti were collected. 



The bird from Negros recorded by Hargitt under the 

 name of T.javensis {cf. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 500, 

 specimen x', and Ibis, 1895, p. 475) should, in my opinion, 

 be referred to T. pectoralis, all the feathers of the chest being 

 widely margined with whitish buff. 



66. XantholjEma rosea (Dumont) ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xix. p. 96 (1891). 



Xantholcema intermedia, Shelley, op. cit. p. 97 ; Bourns & 



