YUNGIPICUS. 393 



Species* 



a 1 . A red spot of patch on each side of occiput, sometimes confluent ( males ) . 



6 1 . Upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts strongly barred with white. 

 c 1 . Ear-coverts brown. 



d l . White eyebrow-stripes very wide; nape and ground-color of back 

 brownish black. Red patches on each side of the occiput very small, 

 widely separated from one another by the nape., validirostris ( p. 393) 

 dr. White eyebrow-stripes narrow and ill-defined; nape and ground-color 

 of back olive-brown. Large red patches on each side of the occiput, 

 nearly confluent on the nape. 

 e 1 . White eyebrow-stripe extending to above ear-coverts. 



maculatus (p. 394) 



e 1 . White eyebrow-stripe reduced to a small patch menagei (p. 395) 



c~. Ear-coverts black; pale buff eyebrow-stripes very wide, extending down 



each side of the neck. 



d 1 . Tail black barred with buff; ground-color of under parts pale buff, 

 rather darker on the chest. A well-defined red patch on each side 



of the occiput leytensis (p. 396) 



d~. Tail buff, barred with black; under parts pale saffron-yellow, inclining 

 to orange or tawny-buff on the chest. A well-defined red patch on 

 each side of the occiput fulvifasciatus (p. 396) 



6 2 . Upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts practically uniform, only a few 



white bars and marks down the middle of the back. Large red occiput 

 patches confluent on the nape and forming a complete band; wide .white 



eyebrow-stripes; chest bright saffron-yellow ramsayi (p. 397) 



a 2 . No red on the head ; other characters as in the males ( females ) . 



356. YUNGIPICUS VALIDIROSTRIS (Blyth). 

 LARGE-BILLED PYGMY WOODPECKER. 



Picus validirostris BLYTH, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. (1849), 64. 



lyngipicus maculatus HARGITT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 332 



(part); SHARPS, Hand-List (1900), 2, 220 (part). 

 lyngipicus validirostris BOURNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 52; GRANT, Ibis (1895), 114 (critical notes). 

 Yungipicus validirostris MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 65. 



Car-pen-te-ro ma-liit', Manila; cu-di-nang'-a, Benguet'. 



Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Jagor, Mollendorff, 

 Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor] ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Min- 

 doro (Steere Exp., Everett, Porter). 



Adult male. Above blackish brown; browner on forehead and crown; 

 ear-coverts brown; a wide white stripe from eye to nape; a very short, 

 narrow, red line on side of occiput ; middle of throat white, with a black- 

 ish line on each side and above this a white line; rest of under parts 



* The key is modified from that given by Grant, Ibis (1896), 471. 



