Iyngipicus menagei Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota
Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 14; Sharpe, Hand-List
(1900), 2, 220.
Yungipicus menagei McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 65.
Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor).
"Adult male.--General color of upper surface dark blackish brown;
top of head uniform black; small spot above and behind the eye creamy
white; scarlet stripes on sides of occiput shorter than in Y. maculatus
and beginning further back; they are confluent on nape; behind and
under the scarlet stripe is a partially concealed spot of creamy
white; scapulars, interscapulars, and back barred with creamy white;
rump creamy white, some of the feathers with narrow brownish black
shaft-stripes; upper tail-coverts brownish black, broadly edged with
buffy white; tail brownish black, paler at base of feathers and with
both webs of feathers spotted with pale buff; wing-coverts brownish
black, each feather having one or two creamy white spots on outer web;
wing brownish black; outer five primaries with two or three very
narrow creamy white spots on outer web, or with no spots at all;
tips of inner primaries and inner webs of all primaries spotted
with creamy white; secondaries similarly spotted on both webs;
ear-coverts rusty brown; creamy white malar-stripe extending back
of ear-coverts; chin and narrow stripe down center of throat white,
bordered by a broad stripe of brownish black on each side, the tips
of feathers forming side stripes being brownish white; under surface
with strong fulvescent wash; feathers of upper breast with distinct
brownish black shaft-marks; feathers of lower breast and abdomen with
ill-defined streaks of the same color; feathers of flanks nearly white
with only slight dark markings; under tail-coverts yellowish white,
with dark shaft-stripes; under surface of tail slightly lighter than
upper, but tips of two central pairs of feathers nearly black; under
wing-coverts and axillars creamy white, spotted with brownish black;
bend of wing uniform brownish black.
"The adult female lacks the scarlet head markings of the male and
the creamy white spot, which is partially concealed in the male,
is in the female quite conspicuous; otherwise the sexes are alike.
"Five males measure in length, 148; culmen, 20; wing, 78; tail, 40;
tarsus, 15. Eight females, length, 152; culmen, 20; wing, 81; tail,
41; tarsus, 17." (Bourns and Worcester.)
"Common in Sibuyan; usually found in the forest. Seems not to occur
in Tablas or Romblon. Iris dark brown to brownish red; legs and feet
olive-brown; nails leaden; bill black, except base of lower mandible,
which is gray." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)