“A younger male has the rump and upper tail-coverts uniform; the white on the sides of the face and neck, chin and throat purer; the spots on the chest and breast smaller, and the breast not so yellow; the under wing-coverts less spotted with black, and the primaries tipped with white.” (Hargitt.)
“Quite abundant in low second growth in Basilan. Nine males from that island average, 141 in length; wing, 81; tail, 39; culmen, 20; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 17.
“Three females, length, 149; wing, 84; tail, 38; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 17; culmen, 19. Iris reddish brown; legs and feet dirty olive-yellow; nails brown; bill black, paler at base.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
361. YUNGIPICUS RAMSAYI Hargitt.
RAMSAY’S PYGMY WOODPECKER.
- Iyngipicus ramsayi Hargitt, Ibis (1881), 598; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 334; Guillemard, P. Z. S. (1885), 254, pl. 17; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 220.
- Yungipicus ramsayi McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 65.
Bongao (Everett); Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester).
Male.—Above earthy brown; white bars mostly wanting except on inner webs of quills; rump white; no well-defined spots or stripes on breast and abdomen; breast with a strong wash of saffron-yellow; sides and abdomen dirty white, faintly streaked with dusky brown. A male from Tawi Tawi measures: Wing, 81; tail, 47; culmen from base, 18.
Female.—Similar to the male but with no red on the head. A female from Sulu measures: Wing, 84; tail, 42; culmen from base, 18.
“The younger female has some indistinct spots of pale brown upon the inner webs of the four central rectrices. ‘Iris brown; bill slate-black; tarsus olive-green.’ (Guillemard.)” (Hargitt.)