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Birds of Celebes: Picidae. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but without the scarlet patches on the sides of the occiput 
(Manado, Q, Mch. 1871, 0 473, 474). 
Some specimens present a much more barred appearance on the hack than others. 
This may he a matter of age, the more uniform specimens being probably the younger. 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Bill from 
no str. 
Tarsus 
a. (0 10856) [(^f] ad. near Manado . . . . -. 
76 
30 
13.5 
13.5 
h. (C 5157) [(^f] ad. Manado 
75 
33 
12.5 

c. (C 5158) [2] ad. Manado .... 
75 
38 
— 

d. (0 474) Q ad. Manado 
79 
40 

13.5 
e. (C 473) 2 ad. Manado 
79 
39 
13 
14 
f. (Sarasin Goll.) 2> Tomohon, 5. IV. 94 
76 
35 
13 
14 
g. (C 14907) cf, Indrulaman, S. Cel., Oct. 95 (Everett) 
79 
34 
15 
14 
h. (Sarasin Coll.) Macassar, 27. VTTT 95 ... . 
79 
35 
14 
14 
i. (Sarasin Coll.) 2> Macassar, 11. VI. 95 .... 
85 
39 
15 
14.5 
Egg and breeding habits unknown. 
Distribution. Celebes — South Peninsula (Wallace h 2, 4, P. & P. Sarasin, Everett <8); 
Minahassa (Rosenh. a 4, Meyer h 4, Fischer a 3, Guillem. 3, etc.). 
This little Woodpecker has as yet only been recorded from the northern 
and southern extremities of Celebes. Hargitt makes no mention of differences 
in the southern birds, such as are found in the other Celebes Woodpecker, 
Microstictus falvus, in its southern quarters, neither have we been able to detect 
any, and there can be little doubt that I. temmincki will be found to range all 
over the island. Most writers speak of it as a rare species; it was not found 
to be so by Meyer near Manado, nor, apparently, by our native collectors in 
August and September, 1892, when five specimens were obtained in the same 
neighbourhood. Dr. Platen met with it among the orange and coffee planta- 
tions near Rurukan (3000 ft.). Nothing has been recorded of its habits. The 
allied I. canicapillus (Bl.) of Tenasserim is said by Davison (Str. F. VI, 125) 
to frequent old clearings, moderately thin jungle, groves of trees, etc., but to 
avoid, as a rule, dense forest or bamboo jungle. I. gymnophthalmus of Ceylon 
and South India is said to live in the highest branches of trees (Legge, B. 
Ceylon, 187). “Its powers of flight, afforded by its long wings, are considerable”. 
The nearest known ally of I. temmincki is I. ramsayi Hargitt of the Sooloo 
Islands. With one exception the genus lyngipicus is confined to the Oriental 
Region, but, like Pelargopsis, it crosses Wallace’s line between Bali and Lom- 
bok, a species being found in the latter island, Sumbawa, and Flores. 
I. temmincki and I. ramsayi are, unlike the rest, “above olive -brown” — we 
should add with a strong wash of green in the former — “striped or barred 
with white”; the remaining Oriental forms are “above black and white, the 
white uniform or barred”, but L ramsayi^ in the coloration of its under surface, 
betrays affinity to I. aurantiiventris (Salvadori) of Borneo. /. temmincki appears 
to be one of the most distinct members of the genus. The single species 
occurring elsewhere outside the Oriental Region is I. ohsoletus, which ranges. 
