IYNGIPICUS AURITUS. 



Malayan Pygmy Woodpecker. 



Petit Pic des Moluques, Daubent. PI. Enl. pi. 748. fig. 2. 



Le petit epeiche brun des Moluques, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 68. 



Picus moluccensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 439 (1788, ex Buff.).— Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 178 (1815).— Vieill. 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 86 (1818).— Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 177 (1822).— Bonn, et 

 Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 134 (1823).— Vigors, Mem. Raffles, p. 669 (1830).— Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 435 

 (1845, exclus. syn.).— Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 63 (1849).— Bp. Consp. i. p. 137 (1850).— 

 Temm. & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, p. 74 (1850).— Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 61 (1863).— 

 Gray, List Picidse Brit. Mus. p. 42 (1868).— Id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8588 (1870). 



Picus minor (non Linn.), Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 290 (1822). 



Picus variegatus (non Lath.), Wagler, Syst. Av., Picus, no. 27 (1827).— Malh. Monogr. PicidEe, i. p. 139, 

 pi. xxxiii. figs. 8-10 (1861).— Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 28 (1866).— Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 43 (1868).— Id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8580 (1870). 



Tripsurus auritus, Eyton, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 229 (1845). 



Yungipicus moluccensis, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 675 (1854).— Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. 

 p. 8 (1854). 



Yungipicus auritus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854). 



Baopipo variegata, Cab. cSc Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 54 (1863). 



Bceopipo aurita, Cab. & Heine, t. c. p. 59 (1863). 



Picus auritus, Gray, List Picidee, Brit. Mus. p 41 (1868).— Id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 183, no. 8575 (1870). 



Picus sondaicus, Wall. MSS. ; Gray, Handl. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8589 (1870).— Wall, in Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, 

 p. 43, note (1874). 



Iyngipicus fusco-albidus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 42 (1874). — Nicholson, Ibis, 1879 p. 165. — Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 240. 



Iyngipicus auritus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 42. 



The present species is one of the group of Pygmy Woodpeckers where the centre tail-feathers are spotted 

 with white, and the under surface of the body is always distinctly striated. The range appears to be strictly 

 Indo-Malayan, as it occurs in the Malayan Peninsula and in the islands of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. To 

 the north, in Tenasserim andBurmah, it is replaced by I. canicapillus, which, again, is represented by /. nanus 

 in the North-west Himalayas. In Borneo a closely allied race, I. picatus of Mr. Hargitt, occurs ; and in the 

 islands of Lombock and Flores its place is taken by a larger form, /. grandis of Hargitt. It is apparent to 

 any one who has studied these little Woodpeckers that the birds above mentioned constitute so many races of 

 one form of Iyngipicus, the geographical distribution of each race, however, being tolerably clearly defined. 



Nothing, as far as I am aware, has been written concerning the habits of this little species ; but they are no 

 doubt precisely similar to those of the allied Indian species. 



The Plate represents a male and female, of the natural size, drawn from specimens lent to me by Mr. Hargitt. 



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