Picus validirostris Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. (1849), 64.
Iyngipicus maculatus Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18,
332 (part); Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 220 (part).
Iyngipicus validirostris Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota
Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 52; Grant, Ibis (1895),
114 (critical notes).
Yungipicus validirostris McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 65.
Car-pen-te-ro ma-liit', Manila; cu-di-nang'-a, Benguet.
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor,
Möllendorff, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque
(Steere Exp.); Mindoro (Steere Exp., Everett, Porter).
Adult male.--Above blackish brown; browner on forehead and crown;
ear-coverts brown; a wide white stripe from eye to nape; a very short,
narrow, red line on side of occiput; middle of throat white, with a
blackish line on each side and above this a white line; rest of under
parts white with a fulvous wash; breast with large blackish spots;
abdomen with blackish stripes; rump and upper tail-coverts white,
spotted with black. A male from Lubang measures: Wing, 81; tail, 42;
culmen from base, 20; tarsus, 14.
Female.--Differs from the male in having no red on sides of occiput. A
female from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 82; tail, 45;
culmen from base, 18; tarsus, 14.
"Dr. J. B. Steere, the first naturalist before whom a series of
specimens [of Yungipicus] from all these localities ever lay, saw
at once the differences between the Luzon and Panay birds, which
unfortunately he seems not to have thought worth pointing out, and
rightly retained the name 'maculatus' for the Panay species. The Luzon
birds he called 'validirostris,' with apparent reason as they most
certainly are not maculatus and the birds described by Blyth may well
have come from Luzon. The Mindanao-Basilan species he re-described
under the name 'Yungipicus basilanicus' overlooking Hargitt's name
and description entirely. * * * The other species of the genus found
in the Philippine Islands with the possible exception of that from
Samar and Leyte are so well-marked that no possibility of confusion
exists." (Bourns and Worcester.)
"Quite common in Marinduque. Not abundant in the parts of Mindoro
visited by us, and no specimens were gathered by the Menage
Expedition. A female specimen in the Steere collection measures as
follows: Wing, 79; tail, 44; culmen, 17; tarsus, 14; middle toe with
claw, 15." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)