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opinion {cmf. op. cit. 1867, p. 184). But in 1870 (op. cit. p. 160) Mr. Blyth surmised that 

 the various species above named would be found to be identical. It is perfectly dis- 

 tinct from <S'. rosenbergi. 



VICARIM 

 VICIDM. 



Theiponax, Cabanis. 

 28. Theiponax jatensis. 

 Picusjavensis, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 175, 6, "Java" (1820); Walden, Ibis, 1871, p. 164. 

 Picus horsfieldii, Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 15, no. 5, 6 (1827), ex Horsf. 

 Picus leucogaster, Wagler, I.e. no. 7, ?, "Mindanao;" Isis, 1829, p. 509, 6 ; Reinw., Temm. 



PI. Col. 501, 6, "lies de la Sonde" (1830). 

 Dryopicus leucogaster (Reinw.), Malh. Monogr. i. p. 47, pi. 13. f. 4, g ,b, ? . 



Hah. Luzon, Januar7 and April {Meyer); Mindanao [Wagler). 



The crest in these Luzon examples is of a brighter red than in Malaccan and Javan 

 individuals ; it is vermilion, as in T. cratvfurdi, whereas in T. hodgsoni and in 

 Malaccan and Javan T. javensis it is blood-red. The proportion of white at the insertion 

 of the quills corresponds with what is found in Malaccan examples {conf. Walden, I. c). 

 On the outer web of the fourth primary of a female a small albescent terminal spot is 

 indicated. In the other examples there is no trace. Altogether the Luzon Thriponax 

 closely resembles the Javan and Malaccan. By the following table of dimensions it 

 will, however, be seen that it is a smaller bird. 



Longitudo 



MuLLEEiPicus, Bonaparte. 



29. * MULLERIPICUS FUNEBRIS. 



PicMs/MreeAm, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. vol. 40, p. 179, ?, "Philippines" (1826); Malh. Monogr. 



i. p. 54, pi. 15. fig. 1, <J,2, ?. 

 Picus lichtensteinii, Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 25, no. 31, ? , " Patr. incert'" (1827). 



1 Malherbe (I. c.) informs us that Wagler described from the same specimen in the Paris Museum that served 

 as Valenciennes' type. 



