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Show 1878.] ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 943 17. YUNGIPICUS VALIDIROSTRIS (33 partim). Picus nanus, Vigors, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 197. Picus validirostris, Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 64. no. 305; J. A. S. B. 1849, p. 805. [Zamboanga, 3 2, M a y : iris crimson?; bill black; mandible lead-grey; feet olive.] When writing on Picus maculatus, Scopoli (Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 148), I stated that the titles I then brought together were treated as synonyms on the assumption that the islands of Luzon, Panay, and Mindanao possessed but one and the same species of Yungipicus. I had had no opportunity of examining an example from any one of the Philippine Islands. Since then Mr. Everett has sent me examples of a species of the genus from Luzon ; and these I identified (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 689) with P. maculatus, rather than create a new title, while their dimensions were too small for P. validirostris, Blyth. The birds from Zamboanga differ specifically from the Luzon species. They are larger ; the uropygium and upper tail-coverts are unspotted tawny-white ; and the rectrices are tawny buff banded with dark brown, and not dark brown, for the most part, as in the Luzon bird, with narrrow albescent bands or marks. In both, the lower throat and upper breast are spotted, and not streaked, as in Y.fuscoalbidus of the Sunda Islands and Malacca. Until typical examples of P. maculatus from Panay are compared, it cannot be affirmed whether the type of P. maculatus belongs to the Luzon or tbe Mindanao species, or whether it may not be a species distinct from either. In the meantime I adopt Blyth's title, the dimensions he gives being exactly those of the Zamboanga species :-bill to forehead 0*75 ; wing 3*25. I may mention that Y. aurantiiventris, Salvadori, is an excellent species, quite distinct from Y. fuscoalbidus. 18. HARPACTES ARDENS (34). [Zamboanga, 2 > March : coloration of soft parts as in male.] The coloration of the soft parts is not mentioned on the labels of the males sent. 19. ALCEDO BENGALENSIS (38). [Zamboanga, 2. March.] 20. PELARGOPSIS GIGANTEA. Pelargopsis gigantea, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser, 4, xiii. p. 123. [Zamboanga, 3 $ > March and May.] 21. CEYX ARGENTATA. Ceyx argentata, Tweeddale, antea, p. 108. no. 7, t. vi. [Zamboanga, 3, May.] 22. ENTOMOBIA GULARIS (44). [Zamboanga.] |
