184 MESSRS ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



a ^te rapporte dii Nepaul par M. Hodgson, J 'avais en 1849 change 



le nom que j'avais donne primitivement ji cette espece, pour la dedier 

 a I'honorable directeur du Museum a Calcutta : mais les observations 

 reit^rees qui ni'ont 6t^ addressees a ce sujet, m'ont decide k main- 

 tenir a regret le nom de rufiiiotus deja inscrit dans les uiusees de 

 I'Europe et dans pluaieurs publications." (Monogr. Picid., Text 

 II (1862) pp. 1-3, De 46, Figs. 1, 2). Meanwhile, in 1850, Bonaparte 

 liad recorded Picus riijinotus with a description ( Consp. Gen. 

 Av., p. 113 : Central Asia — Specimen in the British Museum), but too 

 late to save the name which ranks as a synonym of P. hlythii. 



In the Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus. xviii, p. 395, the type of 

 P. rufinohvs Malh., is stated to be a skin from Bengal. Baker 

 writes (Ibis, 1919 p. 203) "The name rufnotus is a synonym of 

 gularis. The specimen said to be the type is marked as having been 

 taken by McClelland in Assam : in the B. M. catalogue it is said to 

 come from Bengal, but the bird itself is a typical gularis from 

 Southern India " ! As shown, however, Nepal is the type locality of 

 Micropternus 'phaioceps hlyihi, and the type is one of Hodgson's 

 specimens ia the Natural History Museum. 



This is a larger race than M. h. phaioceps, getting larger 

 from South-East to North- West. 



(h). Micropternus brachyurus humei Kloss. 



Micropternus hrachyurus humei, Ibis 1918, p. 109 (Kumaou). 

 The most north-westerly and the largest form. 



281. Dinopium javanense javanense (Ljung). 



Picus javanensis, Ljuugh, K., Yet. Ak. Nya Handl. xviii, 1797, 

 p. 137 (Batavia, Java). 



Chri/sonotus javanetisis, B., p. 64 (Puket or Junk Seylon). 



Ti(ja javanensis, D., p. 72 (Patani) ; E., p. 99 (Patani) ; F., p. 47 

 (Traug) ; H., p 95 (Bandon) ; Hesse, Mitt. Zool. Berlin, 6, 1912, 

 p. 188 (critical). 



l^iga javanensis javanensis, Stuart Baker, Ibis, 1919, p. 207 (criti- 

 cal) ; Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, ii, 1917, p. 324 

 (Patani). 



A. Hume & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E. (). Grant, Fasciculi Malaycnscs. iii (Birds), 1905. 



B. Miiller, Die Ornis der Insel SalanKa, 1882. F. Robinson and Kloss, Iliis, 1910-11. 



C. Oaten, Birds Brit. Bunnah, Vols, i \- ii, 188;i. C (rairdner, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhote. V.Z.H. 1901, Vol. i. H. Itobinson, Journ. F. M, S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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