FASCICULI MALAFENSES 99 



120. Chrysocolaptes valid us, (Temm.) 

 Chrysocolaptes validus, Bonhote, p. 72. 



9 ad. Gedong, South Perak. 10th January. (No. 522) 



The Orange-backed Woodpecker has the iris chocolate-brown, the bill 

 yellowish-horn, and the feet greenish lead-colour. 



121. Chrysocolaptes gruttacristatus, (Tick.) 

 Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus, Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii, p. 448 (1890). 



9 ad. Biserat, Jalor. 29th June. (No. 211) 



Tickell's Golden-backed Woodpecker has the iris chestnut, the bill 

 bluish-horn, and the feet greenish lead-colour. 



122. Tiga javanensis, (Ljung-.) 



Tiga javanensis, Bonhote y p. 72 ; Hartert, p. 547. 



$ ad. Patani. 10th and 15th June. (No. 195) 



$ , 9 a d. Ban Sai Kau, Nawngchik. 24th May and 9th September. (Nos. 132, 133, 384) 



$, 9 ad. Biserat, Jalor. 1 5th and 1 8th July. (Nos. 278, 292) 



$ ad. Jambu, Jhering. 5th June. (No. 150) 



The Golden-backed Three-toed Woodpecker has the iris chestnut, the bill 

 bluish-horn, and the feet greenish-slate. 



This species is eminently a denizen of cultivated lands, and I have 

 hardly ever seen it outside the groves of cocoanut and Penang palms which 

 surround every Malay village. It feeds mainly on ants, principally the 

 tailor-ant (Oecoplylla smaragdina\ but I have observed it attack and swallow 

 a small flying lizard (Draco volans). 



123. Micropternus brachyurus, (Vieill.) 

 Micropternus brachyurus, Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 279 ; Bonhote, p. 72 ; 



Hartert, p. 547. 



9 ad. Gedong, South Perak. 9th January. (Nos. 509, 520) 



$ ad. Biserat Jalor. 30th June. (No. 220) 



$ , 9 ad. Sungkei, South Perak. 7th February. (Nos. 61 8, 626) 



The Malay Rufous Woodpecker has the iris brown, the bill dull black, 

 and the feet greenish-grey. 



124. Micropternus phaeoceps, Blyth. 

 Micropternus phaeoceps, Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii, p. 393 (1890). 



9 ad. Biserat, Jalor. 30th June. (No. 219) 



