THE BUFF-NECKED BARRED WOODPECKER. 61 



453. MEIGLYPTES TUKKL 

 THE BUFF-NECKED BARRED WOODPECKER. 



Picus tukki, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 1(37. Hemicircus brunneus, Eyton, 

 P. Z. S. 1839, p. 100. Picus brunneus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 91. Phaio- 

 picus pectoralis (LicM.}, Malh. Man. Pic. ii. p. 8, pi. xlvii. fig. 5-7. Mei- 

 glyptes marginatus (Eeinw.\ Wold. Ibis, 1871, p. 165. Meiglyptes tukki, 

 Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 57 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 132 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 

 p. 87. 



Description. Male. A patch on either side at the base of the lower 

 mandible crimson ; forehead, crown, upper neck and sides of the head 

 olive-brown ; chin and throat black, narrowly and closely barred with buff"; 

 fore neck black ; a broad streak down each side of the neck creamy buff ; 

 the whole of the upper plumage, wings and tail brown narrowly barred 

 with buff ; the bars on the tail, primaries and secondaries interrupted; 

 upper breast blackish, very narrowly barred with buff; remainder of lower 

 plumage buffy brown barred with lighter buff, the bars becoming almost 

 obsolete on the abdomen ; under wing-coverts plain buff. 



The female differs in wanting the crimson patches at the base of the 

 lower mandible, and in always wanting the reddish tinge on the sides of the 

 forehead, which is frequently present in the male. 



Legs and feet dull or brownish green ; claws a little paler ; irides brown ; 

 upper mandible black ; lower mandible pale plumbeous blue, in some 

 greenish ; in many the tip is dark plumbeous, and the base is also at times 

 a darker plumbeous. (Davison.} 



Length 8 inches, tail 3, wing 4'1, tarsus '8, bill from gape I'l. The 

 female is of the same size. 



The Buff-necked Barred Woodpecker was observed by Mr. Davison in 

 the extreme southern portion of Tenasserim at Bankasoou. 



It extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in the islands of 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



The Woodpeckers of this genus bear a superficial resemblance to those 

 of the genus Hemicercus ; but they may be known at once by the bill, the 

 culmen of which is much curved, and by the absence of plumes over the 

 nostrils. 



