18/8.] ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 943 



1 7. Tungipicus validirostris (33 partim). 

 Picus nanus, Vigors, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 197. 



Picus validirostris, Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 64. no. 305; 

 J. A. 8. B. 1849, p. 805." 



[Zamboanga, d 2> May: iris crimson?; bill black; mandible 

 lead-grey ; feet olive.] 



When writing on Picus maculatus, Scopoli (Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 148), 

 I stated that the titles I then brought together were treated as 

 synonyms on the assumption that the islands of Luzon, Panay, and 

 Mindanao possessed but one and the same species of Yungipicus. 

 I had had no opportunity of examining an example from any one of 

 the Philippine Islands. Since then Mr. Everett has sent me ex- 

 amples of a species of the genus from Luzon ; and these I identified 

 (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 689) with P. maculatus, rather than create a new 

 title, while their dimensions were too small for P. validirostris, 

 Blyth. The birds from Zamboanga differ specifically from the 

 Luzon species. They are larger ; the uropygium and upper tail- 

 coverts are unspotted tawny-white ; and the rectrices are tawny buff 

 banded with dark brown, and not dark brown, for the most part, 

 as in the Luzon bird, with narrrow albescent bands or marks. In 

 both, the lower throat and upper breast are spotted, and not streaked, 

 as in Y. fuscoalbidus of the Sunda Islands and Malacca. Until 

 typical examples of P. maculatus from Panay are compared, it cannot 

 be affirmed whether the type of P. maculatus belongs to the Luzon 

 or the Mindanao species, or whether it may not be a species distinct 

 from either. In the meantime I adopt Blyth' s title, the dimensions 

 he gives being exactly those of the Zamboanga species : — bill to 

 forehead - 75 ; wing 325. 



1 may mention that Y. aurantiiventris, Salvadori, is an excellent 

 species, quite distinct from Y. fuscoalbidus. 



18. Harpactes ardens (34). 



[Zamboanga, 2 , March : coloration of soft parts as in male.] 

 The coloration of the soft parts is not mentioned on the labels of 

 the males sent. 



19. Alcedo bengalensis (38). 

 [Zamboanga, 2 > March.] 



20. Pelargopsis gigantea. 



Pelargopsis gigantea, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 xiii. p. 123. 



[Zamboanga, c? 2 > March and May.] 



21. Ceyx argentata. 



Ceyx argentata, Tvveeddale, antea, p. 108. no. 7, t. vi. 

 [Zamboanga, $ , May.] 



22. Entomobia gularis (44). 

 [Zamboanga.] 



