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374. THRIPONAX MULTILUNATUS McGregor. 

 BASILAN BLACK WOODPECKER. 



Thriponax javensis MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906) 66, 



(part). 

 Thriponax multilunatus MCGREGOR, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 285. 



Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor). 



Adult male. Forehead, crown, crest, and malar-stripe bright crimson, 

 the feathers whitish at base; nasal plumes blackish; lores and a wide 

 transocular band black; rest of upper parts, wings, and tail black; second, 

 third, and fourth primaries with a white spot at base of inner web; 

 third to seventh primaries with a white spot at tip of outer web; inner 

 secondaries white at base ; chin, throat, and postauricular area black, each 

 feather narrowly margined with whitish, producing a striped appearance; 

 breast black, the feathers of fore part narrowly bordered with buffy, pro- 

 ducing a series of crescentic light marks ; abdomen and sides buffy white ; 

 thighs black, each feather widely bordered with light buff ; vent and tail- 

 coverts black. Length in flesh, J -?<>: wing, 210; tail, 166; culmen from 

 base, 52 ; tarsus, 29. 



Adult female. Forehead, crown, and malar-stripe black, otherwise like 

 the male. Wing, 215; tail, 185; culmen from base, 50; bill from nostril, 

 38; tarsus, 31. 



375. THRIPONAX MINDORENSIS Steere, 

 MINDORO BLACK WOODPECKER. 



Thriponax mimlorcnsis STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 

 8; GRANT, Ibis (1896), 473; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 231; 

 MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 67. 



Ma-nuc'-toc, Mindoro. 



Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Everett, McGregor, 

 Porter). 



Adult. Very much like T. javensis but clearly distinguished from 

 that species by having a wide light buff or white band across the lower 

 back; from T. liargitti it differs in having a more slender bill which is 

 entirely black. A female measures: Length, 394; wing, 215; tail, 170; 

 culmen from base, 47; bill from nostril, 35; width of bill at base, 18;. 

 tarsus, 31. 



"Very abundant in the interior of Mindoro. Two females average, 381 

 in length; wing, 191; tail, 145; culmen, 45; tarsus, 27; middle toe with 

 claw, 37. Iris straw-yellow; legs and feet leaden; nails nearly black; 

 bill black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



