the District of Lampong, S.E. Sumatra . 
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19. Callolophus malaccensis. 
Picus malaccensis , Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 241, Malacca” 
(1790). 
Count Salvadori has remarked (t. c. p. 51) that this species 
and C. miniatus of Java are distinct, and that I had erred 
(Ibis, 1871, p. 165) when, following Malherbe and others, I 
regarded them as belonging to the same species. Dr. Sclater 
appears to be the first author who distinguished the Javan 
on account of its uniform red crest and back from the Bornean 
and Malaccan form (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 211); but I may ob¬ 
serve that I have an example collected in East Java by Mr. 
Wallace, and marked a male, which has the more elongated 
crest-plumes red, mingled quite as much with yellow as is to 
be found in true C. malaccensis. The feathers also of the inter¬ 
scapular region exhibit green mixed with red, and are matched 
by an example from Malacca collected by Mr. Maingay. Mr. 
Buxton has two Sumatran examples in his collection : one 
has the dorsal feathers green, largely dashed, centred, and 
tinged with red; the other has these feathers dull olive-green 
washed with red. 
20. Micropternus badius. 
Picus badius, Raffles, t.c. p. 289, “Sumatra” (1821). 
I provisionally retain the above title for the Sumatran 
Micropternus in preference to that of brachyurus, Vieill. (N. 
Diet. xxvi. p. 103, 1818), because the type of Vieillot’s species 
is said to have come from Java, and we cannot rely on Mal¬ 
herbe’s statement that the two are specifically identical. Be¬ 
tween Malaccan and typical examples I am unable to detect 
any good distinction. Many Malaccan specimens have the 
crown very pale; but this is also to be observed in one of Mr. 
Buxton’s birds. The Bornean (south-east and north-east) 
species, M. badiosus, appears to differ in having the terminal 
portions of the rect rices uniform unbanded brown and a some¬ 
what longer bill. Count Salvadori (t. c. p. 59) mentions as a 
distinctive character the eye of the male being completely 
surrounded by red points or dots. In a N.E. Bornean male 
collected by Mr. Everett, and in another by Mr. Lowe 
