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to the vent inclusive, on the rump where it sometimes extends- 

 to the tail-coverts, and especially inside the wings, the basal half 

 or nearly half of the inner webs of all quills being white ; some 

 of the outer primaries generally white- tipped ; some white mixed 

 with the black on the sides of the head, and on the chin and 

 throat. Sexual distinctions as in T. hodgsoni. 



Bill slaty ; irides yellow ; legs and feet plumbeous ; claws 

 horny (Bingham). 



Length about 16 ; tail 6 ; wing 8*5 ; tarsus 1-4 ; bill from gape 

 2*2 : the female as large as the male. 



Distribution. Throughout the greater part of Burma from 

 Bharno in the north to the hills east of Moulmein (Kokarit). 

 This bird has also been sent from Siam and Cochin China. 



Habits, fyc. A forest-bird found also in clearings, and generally 

 observed in pairs on saplings and small trees. According to 

 Captain Feilden and Mr. Davison the flight is peculiar and 

 noiseless the blows given by the bill when tapping are loud 

 but slow, not quickly repeated like those of Brachypternus, Cliryso- 

 colaptes, and Hemiloplius. The call is not loud but is charac- 

 teristic, somewhat resembling a Jackdaw's. The nidification has 

 not been observed. 



999. Thriponax javensis. The Malay Black Woodpecker. 



Picus javensis, Horsjield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 176 (1821). 



Picus leucogaster, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl, p. 178 (1826). 



Hemilophua javensis, Blyth, Cat. p. 55. 



Mulleripicus javensis, Horsf. 8f M. Cat. ii, p. 652. 



Thriponax javensis, Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 75 ; Hume, S. F. iii r 



p. 319 ; id. Cat. no. 169 quat. ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 135 ; 



Oates, B. B. ii, p. 27 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1885, p. 145 ; id. Cat. B. M. 



xviii, p. 498. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, and a large malar 

 patch crimson ; lower breast, abdomen, flanks, auxiliaries, and the 

 inner webs near the base of some of the quills, chiefly secondaries, 

 creamy white; all the rest of the plumage black, small white 

 streaks intermixed on sides of neck behind ear-coverts, and on chin 

 and throat; sometimes a white tip to each of the outer primaries. 



In the female the crimson is confined to the occiput and nape. 



Bill black, lower mandible plumbeous; iris creamy white or 

 yellow ; orbital skin dark plumbeous ; legs and feet pale plumbeous 

 (Davison). 



Length about 17 ; tail 7 ; wing 9 ; tarsus 1/4 ; bill from gape 2-4. 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, ranging into the extreme 

 south of Tenasserim, also Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and several of 

 the Philippine Islands. 



Habits, 6fc. Similar to those of T. feddeni. 



