Vol. 32, pp. 7-8 February 14, 1919 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



MUTANDA ORNITHOLOGICA. 



V. 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



The names of the following woodpeckers apparently must 

 be changed. Notes on the names of various other species will 

 be found in previous installments of the present series of papers. 1 



Family PICIDAE. 

 Iyngipicus pygmaeus (Vigors). 



Another name must be used for the Himalayan woodpecker commonly 

 known as Iyngipicus -pygmaeus, since its original combination, Picus 

 pygmaeus Vigors 2 is preoccupied by Picus pygmaeus Lichtenstein, 3 which 

 is now known as Picumnus pygmaeus Lichtenstein. The determination 

 of the proper name now to be used for this species involves some compli- 

 cation. The earliest subsequent designation is Dendrocopus moluccensis 

 Hodgson, 4 but this is a nomen nudum where first proposed. The Picus 

 moluccensis of Gray, 5 if not a mere misidentification of Picus moluccensis 

 Gmelin, 6 is of course preoccupied by the latter, which is the same as 

 Iyngipicus auritus (Eyton). The Picus zizuki of Gray, 1846, 7 is a mis- 

 identification of the Nepal bird with Picus kizuki Temminck, 8 and is not 

 the same as Picus zizuki Gray, 1845, 9 which is Picus kizuki Temminck 

 (—Yungipicus kizuki [Temminck]) wrongly spelled. 



The earliest tenable name of this woodpecker, therefore, seems to be 



■ For the four previous articles, cf. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXX, March 31, 1917, pp. 

 75-76; Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXX, July 27, 1917, pp. 125-126; Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. , 

 XXXI, May 16, 1918, pp. 47-49; and Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXXI, November 29, 1918, 

 pp. 125-126. 



2Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831 (April 6, 1831), p. 44 (Himalaya Mountains). 



3Verz Doubl., 1823, pp. 11, 12, note (Brazil). 



«Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, p. 85. 



sGenera Birds, I, 1845, p. 435. 



eSyst. Nat., I, i, 1788, p. 439 (Molucca Islands). 



7Cat. Mamm. Birds Nepal Pres. Hodgson, 1846, p. 116 (Nepal). 



8Nouv. Rec. Planch. Col. d'Ois., IV, livr. 99, 1836, pi. 585 and text. 



9Genera Birds, II, 1845, p. 435. 



3— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 32. 1991. (7) 



