CATALOGUE. 
669 
977. MEIGLYPTES JUGULABIS, Blytk 
Meiglyptes jugularis, BlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. XIV. jp. 195 
(1845) ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p, 60. 
a. ^. Tenasserim. From Heifer's Collection. 
" Colour black or brown-black, varied with bufFy-white, and an 
obscure dull crimson moustache in the male ; occipital feathers elon- 
gated and black ; neck whitish, more or less deeply tinged with buff, 
and continued as a streak along each side of the breast in front of 
the wings ; rump also buffy-white, a broad oblique stripe of the same 
upon the wings ; and their nether surface and edge are of this hue, 
the large alars being broadly banded at base internally, with slight 
narrow pale bars or series of small spots on their outer surface ; fore- 
head, throat, and sometimes crown, more or less speckled or rayed 
with the same pale colour that variegates the rest of the plumage. 
Length about 7i in., of wing 4 in., tail 2^ in., bill to forehead |- in., 
and tarse f in."— (Blyth.) 
This species much resembles Hemicercus canente^ but it is readily 
distinguished by the very different form of the bill, by the buff-white 
colour of the nape, and by the rays or specks of the same hue upon 
its black throat. 
Genus Picus, Linn., 8. N. (1785). 
Detobates, Boie, Ids (1826),^. 977. 
Dendeocopijs, Swains., Classif. of B. 11. p. 307 (1837). 
LEucoNOTOPicrs, Malherhe, Bev. Zool. (1845). 
Dendeodeomas, Kaup, Nat. Syst. der JEur. Thierw. 
(1829). 
PiPEiPicus, Bonap. (1854). 
978. PICUS MA JOB, Linnccus. 
Picus major. Linn., S. N. l.p. 176. Latli., Hist, of B. 
III. p. 340. Wagler, Syst. Av. Bic. sp. 17. Gould, 
B. of Eur. t. 229. G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. 11. 
p. 435 ; Cat. Brit. Birds Brit. Mus. p. 122. Blyth, 
J. A. S. Beng. XYl.p. 466 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 62. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 134. 
The G-reat Spotted Woodpecker, Bewick. 
a. ? . Europe. Presented by J. Gould, Esq., September, 
1856. 
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