Genus LICHTENSTEINIPICUS Bonaparte, 1854.
Culmen slightly curved for its entire length; nasal ridge prominent; nostrils partly concealed by plumes; occipital crest short; plumage slate-black; chin, throat, and sides of neck with a minute white spot at the tip of each feather.
Species.
- a1. Plumage black; malar region and forehead crimson in the male. funebris (p. [403])
- a2. Plumage slaty smoke-gray; malar region scarlet in the male. fuliginosus (p. [404])
369. LICHTENSTEINIPICUS FUNEBRIS (Valenciennes).
FUNEREAL WOODPECKER.
- Picus funebris Valenciennes, Dict. Sc. Nat. (1826), 40, 179.
- Microstictus funebris Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 492; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 230;[43] McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 66.
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Luzon (Meyer, Heriot, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.).
Male.—Black with a slight gloss on wings and back; throat and abdomen smoky brown; lores, forehead, cheeks, and a wide space around each eye deep crimson; chin, throat, sides and back of neck with a small white spot at the tip of each feather. Iris pale yellow; bill white; legs plumbeous; nails light horn-blue. Length, 330; wing, 156; tail, 138; culmen from base, 37; tarsus, 29.
Female.—Similar to the male but with no crimson anywhere on the head; the cheeks, like the throat, spotted with white. Length, 315; wing, 155; tail, 133; culmen from base, 34; tarsus, 27.