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, 2G. 



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 1 . 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). 

 a FUNEREAL WOODPECKER. 



Picus funebris VALENCIENNES, Diet. Sc. Nat. (1826), 40, 179. 



Microstictus funebris HABGITT, Cat. Birds Brit. MILS. (1890), 18, 492; 

 SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 230;* MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1906), 66. 



Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Luzon (Meyer, Heriot, Stcerc Eacp., Whiteticad, 

 McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.). 



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; culmeu 

 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. 



