Birds of Celebes; Picidae. 
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according to Hargitt, from N. E. Africa to Equatorial Africa, westward to 
Senegambia , a remarkably wide distribution for a genus the species of which 
are so narrowly located elsewhere. This is an aberrant form, though Edward 
Hargitt considers it a true lyngipicus. It is very far removed in characters 
from I. temmincki. A few remarks on the distribution of the East Indian 
Woodpeckers will be found under Microstictus fulvus. As is well known to 
ornithologists, no species of Woodpecker is known east of the Molucca Straits, 
the family being entirely absent from the Australian region, through occurring 
elsewhere all over the world — except in Madagascar and the Pacific Islands — 
from about the Arctic Circle, south to South Patagonia, the Cape, Flores and 
Celebes (see Marshall, Spechte, 1889, 42, 43). 
GENUS MICROSTICTUS^) Harg. 
A genus of four species restricted to Celebes and the Philippines. In size 
about equal to a Turtle Dove ; exposed culmen not longer than the head; 
nostrils feathered; tip of upper mandible chisel-edged; third toe longer than the 
reversed fourth toe ; tail nearly as long as the wings, the individual rectrices ter- 
minally narrowed, and stiffened like whale-bone; first primary half as long as 
the second; 4^^, 5*^ and 6*^ subequal and longest. 
A * 56. MICROSTICTUS FULVUS (Q. G.). 
North Celebesian Slate-and-fawn Woodpecker, 
a. Picus fulvus (I) Quoy & Graim., Voy. Astro! 1833, text, 228, At! pL 18, fig. 2 ( 0 ^); 
(2) Posenb., Malay Arcliip. 1878, 275 (liidviis); (3) Joest, Das Holontalo 1883, 105. 
b. Hemilophus fulvus (1) Gray, Gen. B. II, 1846, 439; (II) Pclib., Handb. Picinae 1854,' 
385, t. 644, f. 4302—03. 
c. Dryopicus fulvus (I) Malh., Picidae 1861, I, 53, p! XIV, fig. 1 cf , 2 Q. 
d. Campethera fulva (1) Gray, HL. 1870, II, 193; (2) Briiggem., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, 
V, 48. 
e. Mulleripicus fulvus (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIII, 41 pt. (Manado); (2) Garrod, 
P. Z. S. 1873, 630; (3) Lenz, J. 1 0. 1877, 366; (4) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 57, 145; 
(5) Gnilleni., P. Z. S. 1885, 546. 
/'. Alophonerpes fulvus (1) ? Salvad., Ann. Mns. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 646; (2) W. Bias., 
Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1886, 87; (3) Marshall, Die Spechte 1889, 58 (Borneo err.). 
Microstictus fulvus (1) Hargitt, Oat. B. XVHI, 1890, 490; (2) M. & Wg., Abb. Mns. Dresd. 
1895, Nr. 8, p. 6; (III) Meyer, Abb. Vogelske! 1897, pi. CCXXVH. 
“Burong tukan” (Carpenter Bird). Malay name, Minahassa (Meyer e 4, Gnillem. e 5, 
Nat. Coll.). 
“Rumerkukor” (Meyer) near Manado. 
b Ml’. Hartert (Nov. Zool. 1897) would reinstate the name Lichte^isteinipicus, intended by Bonaparte 
for the Philippine form, M. funehris, but by the Rules of Nomenclature, Hargitt was justified in rejecting 
it, since it has, we believe, never been described. Hargitt’s Microstictus (type, apparently, M. fulvus of 
Celebes) has been properly diagnosed (Cat. B. XYIII, 7, 489). 
