134 MALAYAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
This Woodpecker is not very scarce; L shot several in Pérak, 
and some few in Singapore. It frequents cocoa-nut groves. 
A female, which I shot near Kota Lama, Pérak, on 14th Febru- 
ary, 1877, measured in length 10} inches; irides brown, legs black, 
beak plumbeous. 
The male has a crimson crest, aud is altogeher more decidedly 
marked than the female, the white drops on the breast being very 
distinct and regular. 
MUELLERIPICUS PULVERULENTUS (Temm.). 
Mr. Davison’s collector showed me a specimen of this large 
Woodpecker which, during June, he had shot on Gunong Pulai, 
Johor. 
Length 20 inches ; head grey. 
THRIPONAX JAVENSIS (Horsf.). The Great Black Woodpecker. 
I found this handsome Woodpecker plentiful round Siagamet, 
some sixty or eighty miles up the Moar river. J never came across 
it in the North of the peninsula. 
A male I got at Bukit Képong, on the Moar river, was 15 inches 
in length ; irides yellow; top of head and streak from base of lower 
mandible scarlet ; abdomen rusty white; rest of plumage black. 
CaLLOLOPHUS PUNICEUS (Horsf.). 
I shot a male of this fine bird while it was running up a tree- 
trunk in the jungle, near Kwala Kangsa, Pérak; date 6th May, 
1877. T.ength 103} inches ; beak at front 1,2; inch. Irides dark- 
brown. During July, 1879, I saw, but could not get a shot at, one 
of these Woodpeckers among the high trees at the foot of Bukit 
Timah, Singapore. 
MrcgatmMa cHRysopocon (Temm.). The Golden-bearded Bar- 
bet. 
Common in Malacca and Singapore collections. It breeds in the 
Malay States. 
During May, 1877, while shooting on the banks of the Perak 
river, close to Kampong Saiyong, a Malay brought me two of these 
Barbets, saying he had caught them high up in the thickly-wooded 
range of hills behind the village. They were young birds, and 
unable to fly more than a few yards; so, putting them in my game- 
bag, among dead Teal, Snipe, Quail, and other spoil, the result of 
