THE BUFF-NECKED BARRED WOODPECKER. 61 
453. MEIGLYPTES TUKKI. 
THE BUFF-NECKED BARRED WOODPECKER. 
Picus tukki, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167. Hemicircus brunneus, Eyton, 
P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106. Picus brunneus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Fie. p. 91, Phaio- 
picus pectoralis (Lichf.), Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 8, pi. xlvii. fig. 5-7. Mei- 
glyptes marginatus (Peimu.), Wald. Ibis, 1871, p. 165. Meiglyptes tukki, 
Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 57 ; Huyne ^ Bav. 8. F. vi. p. 132 ; Hu7ne, S. F. viii. 
p. 87. 
Description. — Male. A patcli on either side at the base of the lower 
mandible crimson ; forehead,, crown,, upper neck and sides of the head 
olive-brown; chin and throat blacky narrowly and closely barred with buflP; 
fore neck black ; a broad streak down each side of the neck creamy buff ; 
the whole of the upper plumage, wdngs and tail brown narrowdy barred 
with buff; the bars on the tail^ primaries and secondaries interrupted ; 
upper breast blackish^ very narrowly barred with buff ; remainder of lower 
plumage buffy brown barred with lighter buff, the bars becoming almost 
obsolete on the abdomen ; under wing-coverts plain buff. 
The female differs in wanting the crimson patches at the base of the 
lower mandible^ and in always wanting the reddish tinge on the sides of the 
forehead, which is frequently present in the male. 
Legs and feet dull or brownish green ; claws a little paler ; irides brown ; 
upper mandible black ; lower mandible pale plumbeous blue^ in some 
greenish; in many the tip is dark plumbeous^ and the base is also at times 
a darker plumbeous. [Davison.) 
Length 8 inches^ tail 3^ wing 4*1^ tarsus '8^ bill from gape 1"1. The 
female is of the same size. 
The Buff-necked Barred Woodpecker was observed by Mr. Davison in 
the extreme southern portion of Tenasserim at Bankasoon. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula^ and is found in the islands of 
Sumatra and Borneo. 
The Woodpeckers of this genus bear a superficial resemblance to those 
of the genus Hemicercus ; but they may be known at once by the bill^ the 
culmen of which is much curved_, and by the absence of plumes over the 
nostrils. 
