1919-] Oriental Woodpeckers and Barbels. 197 



(3) Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus delesserti. 



Indopicus delesserti Malli. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848, p. SiS : 

 Malabar. 



Chrysocolaptes giittacristatus indomalayiciis Hesse, Orn. 

 Monatsb. xix 1911, p. 182: Salanga I. 



Chrysocolaptes strictus chersonesus Kloss, Ibis, 1918, 

 p. 113 : S. Johore. 



Habitat. Southern India, south of Bombay in the west 

 and Orissa in the east, peninsular Burma, Siam, and the 

 Malay peninsula. 



A small bird with wing between 145 and 172 mm. and 

 average 157 mm., and bill between 38 and 45 mm. 



It seems to me to be inadvisable to separate the south 

 Indian from the south Burmese birds, the same results in 

 each case having presumably been arrived at by parallel 

 evolution. Those who refuse to accept under the same 

 name the same bird from two widely different areas would 

 have to use the name indomalayicus for the Burmese- 

 Malayan form, but tlie only difterence between the two is 

 the slightly larger average size of the latter. 



Robinson {vide page 181) gives the length of wing of 

 Kloss's chersonesus as 148 mm. ; this is a trifle under the 

 size of any specimen from the British Museum series, but is 

 not sufficient reason alone for naming it as a separate sub- 

 species. There are specimens from Johoie iu this collection 

 with wings exceeding 170 mm. 



%ICROPTERNUS BRACHYURUS. 

 Mr. Boden Kloss has recently (Ibis, 1918, pp. 107 et 

 seq.) created many new subspecies of this Woodpecker, in 

 some cases it would seem witli, hardly sufficient material, 

 although the net results are very accurate. Six races are 

 comparatively well defined by colour-differences, these being 

 M. b. brachyurus, M. b. gularis, M. b. phaioceps, M. b. fok- 

 iensis, M. b. badiosus, and M. b. holroydi. The Indian and 

 Burmese birds Mr. Kloss splits up into further subspecies — 

 lanka from Ceylon, blythii from the eastern Himalayas, 

 mesas from ? Cuttack, Calcutta and Bengal, burmanicus from 



