ITYNGIPICUS MACULATUS.
Sonnerat’s Pygmy Woodpecker.

Petit Pic @ Antique, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 118, pl. 77 (1776).

Le Petit Epeiche (pt.), Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 64 (1780, ex Sonn.).

Picus maculatus, Scop. Del. Faun. et Flor. Insubr. p. 89 (1786, ex Sonn.).—Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 279 (1863).

Picus minor, var. B, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 230 (1790).

Picus moluccensis, Less. (nec Gm.), Traité d’Orn. p. 221 (1831).—Malh. Vili carers tate clean Vea jeune t oan) EexoxoxeT TE
(1861).

Picus nanus, Blyth nec Vigors), J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 197 (1845).

Picus validirostris, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 64 (1849).—Id. J. A. S. Beng. xvill. p. 805 (1849).—Reichb.
Handb. Picine, p. 373 (1854).—Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 144.—Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 29 (1866).
—Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 43 (1868).—Id. Handl. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8582 (1870).

Picus flavinotus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 144 (1861).

Beopipo validirostris, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 60 (1863).

Picus (Yungipicus) validirostris, Von Martens, J. f. O. 1866, 20}

Yungipicus maculatus, Wald. Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 148 (1875).—Sharpe. Tr. Linn. Soc. new ser. Zool. i. p. 350 (1877).

Lyngipicus maculatus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 27.

 

The present species is the oldest known member of the genus Lyngiyricus. It belongs to the section of the
genus which has the throat and breast very plainly spotted with black ; the only other species with which it
could be confounded is L. fulvifasciatus ; but from this it is distinguished by its small occipital streak and by
the very distinct brown or blackish cross bars on the rump.

Sonnerat discovered the present bird at Antigua in the island of Panay; and since his time no one seems to
have met with it in that island. His description of the bird, however, is so clear that it appears to be
absolutely the same as the Zyngipicus from Luzon ; and I have followed Mr. Hargitt in the above identification.
He remarks as follows :—“‘ This is a very distinct species, distinguished by its spotted breast, a character so
well marked that it renders the old figure of Sonnerat’s clearly referable to the species.”

In the British Museum are some specimens from Manila, in Luzon ; and Mr. Everett collected the species in
the same island at Monte Alban.

The figures in the Plate represent a male and female of the natural size lent to me by Captain Wardlaw
Ramsay.

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