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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

999. Thriponax javensis

999. Thriponax javensis.

The Malay Black Woodpecker.

Picus javensis, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 176 (1821). Picus leucogaster, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl, p. 178 (1826). Hemilophus javensis, Blyth, Cat. p. 55. Mulleripicus javensis, Horsf. & M. Cat. ii, p. 652. Thriponax javensis, Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 75 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 319; id. Cat. no. 169 quat.; Hume & Dav. S. F. vi, p. 135; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 27 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1885, p. 145; id. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 498.

Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, and a large malar patch crimson; lower breast, abdomen, flanks, axillaries, and the inner webs near the base of some of the quills, chiefly secondaries, creamy white; all the rest of the plumage black, small white streaks intermixed on sides of neck behind ear-coverts, and on chin and throat; sometimes a white tip to each of the outer primaries.

In the female the crimson is confined to the occiput and nape.

Bill black, lower mandible plumbeous; iris creamy white or yellow; orbital skin dark plumbeous ; legs and feet pale plumbeous (Davison).

Length about 17 ; tail 7 ; wing 9 ; tarsus 1.4 ; bill from gape 2.4.

Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, ranging into the extreme south of Tenasserim, also Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and several of the Philippine Islands.

Habits, &c. Similar to those of T. feddeni.

BookTitle: 
The Fauna Of British India including Ceylon and Burma
Reference: 
Blanford, William Thomas, ed. The Fauna of British India: Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol.3 1895.
Title in Book: 
999. Thriponax javensis
Book Author: 
William Thomas Blanford
CatNo: 
999
Year: 
1895
Page No: 
74
Common name: 
Malay Black Woodpecker
M_ID: 
10973
M_CN: 
White-bellied Woodpecker
M_SN: 
Dryocopus javensis
Volume: 
Vol. 3
Term name: 
id: 
1367

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