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CATALOGUE. 
946. MULLERIPICUS JA VENSIS, Horsfield Sp. 
^ Picus javensis (male), Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
XIII. p. 175 (1821). Vigors, Mem. Baffles, p. 668. 
Latham, Hist, of B. 111. p. 353. 
Hemilophus javensis, G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. p. 439. 
Blyth, J. A. S. Be7ig. XY. p. 283 ; Cat. B. Mus. 
A. S. Bang. p. 55. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 131. 
Picus leucogaster (Beinwardt), Temm., Bl. Col. 501, ^. 
Wagler, Syst. Av. Bicus Sp. 7, ? . Blyth, J. A. S. 
Beng. XI. p. 464. 
Hemiloplius leucogaster, Motley et Dillivyn, Contr. 
Nat. Hist. Ldbuan, p. 29. 
^ Picus Horsfieldii {male), Wagler, Syst. Av. Bicus 
Sp. 5 (1827). 
Picus Crawfurdii, J. B. Gray, Griff. An. Kingd. Aves, 
11. p. h\%fig. (1829). 
Picus maximus malayensis, Bland^ J. A. S. Beng. YI. 
p. 952. 
Java "Woodpecker, Latham. 
Platuk-atam, Java, Horsfield. 
GuLATOH, Malays. 
A. (J adult. Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
h. ? young. Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 
c. $ adult. Malacca. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
d. ^. Malacca. Reserved from Indian Collection, 
Exposition Universelle at Paris, 1855. 
" These birds are not uncommon in Labuan, and frequently fly in 
small parties of six or eight ; they much frequent dead trees, whose 
bark is just beginning to fall, and are very amusing to watch, being 
always in motion, and very noisy : they begin rather low down on a 
tree, moving upwards by jumps with a cry like the chatter of a 
Magpie to the time of our green "Woodpecker's laugh. Perhaps two 
or three will be ascending one tree at the same time, trying the bark 
with incessant taps, and wrenching open every likely crack with 
their powerful chisel-beaks : when they reach the branches, they hold 
a sort of discussion of tremendous chatter, and then each takes his 
own branch, and the bark, here being usually more decayed than on 
the stem, comes down in showers. If you make any loud noise or 
show yourself suddenly, all disappear in a moment. Perhaps one or 
