94 NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, ZOOLOGJCAL RESULTS OF THE SWEDISH ZOOLOOICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 



A very shy and difficult bird to obtain. It was obaerved several times in Northern 

 Siarn and especially up aniong the hills, but during the whole journey I only succeeded 

 in obtaining two specimens, both shot in a mixed bamboo forest near Doi Par Sakeng. 



Tliis species generally keeps to the ground, only visiting the trees when disturbed 

 or frightened. It, however, never climbs high up the stenis but always keeps to the lower 

 half of the tree, where it conceals itself on the hindmost side. 



The female specimen is immature and has the head striped with rufescent buff. 



The male has the under tail-eoverts of the same eolour as the underparts of the 

 body or perhaps a trifle paler, The underparts are also quite unbarred. 



176. Miglyptes jugularis. Blyth. The Black-and-Buff Woodpecker. 



Miglgptesjugtdaris: Oustalet 1899 p. 2<>3: Gyldenstolpe II; Gyldenstolpe 111 p. 230. 



J 1 Pak Koh 8e /s 1914. L = 170 ram.; W = 102 mm.: T = 55 mm.; C = 11) mm. - - J Koon Tan 

 "/a 1914. L= 163 mm.: W - 101 mm.: T =- 17 mm.: C = 18 mm. — $ Bång Hue 1'ong 85 /s 1914. 

 L == 175 mm.: W -100 mm.; T == 4!» mm.; C == 19,:; mm. $ Bång Ilue 1'ong i: 'j:, 1914. L - 168 



mm.; W = 99 mm.: T 54 mm.: <' 18 mm. — Irides: brown. Bill: black. Legs: greenish olive. 



Only obtained in the Northern hill-forests and even there rather scarce. Jt was 

 most often met with in old clearings or open forests. never in thick jungle. 



177. Micropternus phaioceps phaioceps. Blyth. - The Northern Rufous Woodpecker. 



Microptemus phaioceps phaioceps: Gyldenstolpe I p. 18: Gyldenstolpe 11; Gyldenstolpe 111 p. 230. 

 Micropternus phaeoccps: Grant p. 99. 



J Doi Par Sakeng S3 /? 1914. L = 222 mm.; W =- 126 mm.: T — 76 mm.; C = 26 mm. - $ Doi 

 Par Sakeng 23 /t 1914. L = 235 mm.; W == 127 mm.; T 78 mm.; C = 24 mm. — ^ Koon Tan 23 /:, 1914. 

 L = 230 mm.; \V == 123,5 mm.; T == 83 mm.; C = 25 mm. — Irides: brown. Bill: horn eolour, base 

 plumbeous. Legs: brown. 



The Siamese representative of the Rufous Wood-pecker must be referred to the 

 short-winged form, which has been described by Bly t th under the above-mentioned 

 name. In Northern India and probably Burma the Rufous Woodpecker is represented 

 by another race which, according to Hesse, is characterized by having wings measuring 

 140,r, — 145 mm. This race ought to be separated as M. p. blythi Malh. 



Further south in Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula and the Gr. »Sunda Islands an- 

 other race occurs which has been described by Vieillot as M. bmchywms and this race 

 is characterized by having the tail equally barred rufous and black, while in M. phaioceps 

 the black bars are much narrower than the rufous ones. In M. brachyurus the scale-like 

 feathers are more conspicuous than those in M. phaioceps. 



The pair shot at Doi Par Sakeng in North-western Siarn are very påle coloured on 

 their heads, and the black centres to the feathers are almost obsolete. In their general 

 appearance they are much paler than the specimen obtained at Koon Tan, which is of 

 a rich rufous eolour on the upper parts of the body. 



This specimen is probably an immature bird, beeause the underparts of the body are 

 varied with black crescentie marks. In the specimens from Doi Par Sakeng the black bars 

 of the tail-feathers are almost obsolete and there are only a few black spöts and blotches. 



