IYNGIPICUS MACULATUS. 



Sonnerat's Pygmy Woodpecker. 



Petit Pic d'Antigue, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 118, pi. 77 (1776). 



Le Petit Epeiche (pt.), Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 64 (1780, ex Sonn.). 



Picus maculatus, Scop. Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. p. 89 (1786, ex Sonn.).— Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 279 (1863). 



Picus minor, var. B, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 230 (1790). 



Picus moluccensis, Less, (nee Gra.), Traite d'Orn. p. 221 (1831).— Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 143, pi. xxxii. 



(1861). 

 Picus nanus, Blyth (nee Vigors), J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 197 (1845). 

 Picus validirostris, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 64 (1849).— Id. J. A. S. Beng. xviii. p. 805 (1849).— Reichb. 



Handb. Picinse, p. 373 (1854).— Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 144.— Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 29 (1866). 



—Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 43 (1868).— Id. Handl. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8582 (1870). 

 Picus flavinotus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 144 (1861). 

 BcEopipo validirostris, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 60 (1863). 

 Picus (Yungipicas) validirostris, Von Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 20. 



Yungipicus maculatus, Wald. Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 148 (1875). — Sharpe. Tr. Linn. Soc. new ser. Zool. i. p. 350 (1877). 

 Iyngipicus maculatus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 27. 



The present species is the oldest known member of the genus Iyngipicus. It belongs to the section of the 

 genus which has the throat and breast very plainly spotted with black ; the only other species with which it 

 could be confounded is I. fuhifasciatus ; but from this it is distinguished by its small occipital streak and hy 

 the very distinct brown or blackish cross bars on the rump. 



Sonnerat discovered the present bird at Antigua in the island of Panay ; and since his time no one seems to 

 have met with it in that island. His description of the bird, however, is so clear that it appears to be 

 absolutely the same as the Iyngipicus from Luzon ; and I have followed Mr. Hargitt in the above identification. 

 He remarks as follows : — " This is a very distinct species, distinguished by its spotted breast, a character so 

 well marked that it renders the old figure of Sonnerat's clearly referable to the species." 



In the British Museum are some specimens from Manila, in Luzon ; and Mr. Everett collected the species in 

 the same island at Monte Alban. 



The figures in the Plate represent a male and female of the natural size lent to me by Captain Wardlaw 

 Ramsay. 



