457 



158. Venilia melanogastra. 



Picus melanog aster, Hay, Madras Joum. Lit. & Sci. xiii. pt. 2. 

 p. 153 (1844). 



Picus rubiginosus, Eyton, Ann. N. H. 1845, p. 229. 



Glato Gading, Malays (Cantor). 



Malacca. 



159. MlCROPTERNUS BADIUS. 



Picus badius, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 289 (1821). 

 Picus brachyurus, Vieill. Nat. Diet. xxvi. p. 103. 

 Picus phceopus, Malherbe, MS. Mus. Ind. House. 

 Glato Ahbos, Malays. 

 Malacca. 



"Iris, bill, and feet black." — Cantor s Notes. 



160. Meiglyptes tristis. 



Picus tristis, Horsf. Trans, Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 177 (1821). 

 Picus poicilophus, Temm. PI. Col. 197. f. I. 

 Glato Bawan, Malays. 

 Pinang and Malacca. 



161. Meiglyptes brunneus. 



Hemicercus brunneus, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106. 



Glato Etam, Malays. 



Malacca. 



162. Picus moluccensis. 



Picus moluccensis, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 439 (PI. Enl. 748. f. 2). 



Tripsurus auritus, Eyton, Ann. N. H. 1845, p. 229. 



Malacca. Inhabits the Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. 



As compared with the Indian species (P. variegatus, Wagl. 

 figured in Gray's 111. Ind. Zool.), this has rather larger bill and feet ; 

 the crown is darker coloured, passing to blackish, or deeply infus- 

 cated, on the occiput and median line of nape ; the wings are shorter, 

 and there is a difference in the barring of the tail-feathers, and in 

 the form of the tips of the more outer ones, which in the Indian 

 bird are more rounded, or somewhat truncated, with a slight emargi- 

 nation at the tip of the shaft ; while in the Malayan bird they atte- 

 nuate, and are obtusely pointed ; the white bars also assume more the 

 appearance of transverse bands in the Malayan species, and of 

 separated round spots in the Indian, while the outermost feather is 

 in the former tipped with white, and the penultimate has an all but 

 terminal white bar, both these feathers in the Indian bird being 

 broadly black-tipped, with a more interrupted white bar above. 



163. Centropus viridis. 



Cuculus viridis, Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insub. (1786). 

 Cuculus bengalensis, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 412 (1788). 



