15. nEm)Rocoptrs. 



215 



occipital band. Total length 8-3 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 4-63, 

 tail 3-15, tarsus 0'88. 



Younrj. Differ from the adult of both sexes iu having the crown 

 crimson, the red occipital band characteristic of the adult male is 

 wanting and replaced by black ; the general colour above of a sooty 

 black, without any blue gloss ; forehead dusky brown ; a dusky 

 stripe behind the eye, and including the upper half of the ear-coverts ; 

 sides of the face and neck smoky white ; under surface of the body 

 smoky brown, the sides of tlie body, flanks, and thighs having faint 

 dusky striations : vent and under tail-coverts brick-red. 



Hah. Caucasus. 



a. $ ad. sk. Lenkoran, December. Henry Seehohm, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. y. Dendrocopus leucopterus. 



Picus (Dendrocopus) leucopterus, Salrad. Atti R. Ace. Sc. Tov. vi. 



p. 129 (1870-71). 

 Picus cabanisi {non Malh.), Severtx. Trans. Imp. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



viii. pt. 2, p. 68 (1873). 

 Picus leptorhvnclius, var. leucoptera, Severtz. His, 1875, p. 488 ; id. 



Str. F. 1875, p. 430. 

 Picus leptorhynchus, Severtz. Str. F. 1875, p. 430 ; id. His, 1875, 



pp. 487-491 ; Dresser, op. cit. 1876, p. 320 ; Menzh. op. cit. 1885, 



p. 357. 

 Picus leucopterus, Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 219 ; Scully, op. cit. 1876, 



p. 134 ; Dress. His, 1889, p. 91. 

 Picus syriacus leucopterus, Seeb. His, 1882, p. 423. 



Adult male. Differs from D. major in having the frontal band, 

 sides of the face and neck, and the under surface of the body pure 

 white, the red extending much higher up and on to the lower breast ; 

 the scapulars pure white, and the quills crossed by very broad bars 

 of white, the innermost secondaries having large spots of white not 

 reaching to the shaft and confluent on the margin. Total length 

 9 inches, culmen 1-27, wing 4-95, tail 3-4, tarsus 0-87 ; toes (with- 

 out claws) — outer anterior 0-55, outer posterior 0-63, inner anterior 

 0'5, inner posterior 0-3. 



Young male. " Has the crown red " (Severtzoff). 



Adult female. Wants the red occipital band, but is otherwise like 

 the adult male. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-12, wing 4*95, 

 tail 3"4o, tarsus 0-85. 



Hab. Turkestan and AVestern Mongolia (Lob Nor). 



a. 2 ad. sk. Turkestan, Jau. 18G9 (Dr. Tweeddale Coll. 



Severtzov), 



b. S ad. sk. Kokand, March 14, 1869 Tweeddale Coll. 



{Dr. Severtzov). 



c. cJ ad. sk. Maralbashi, E. Turke.stau, Hume Coll. 



Jau. 1874 {J. Biddulph). 



d. S ad. sk. Maralbashi, Jau. 1874 [J. Tweeddale Coll. 



Biddulph). 



e. S ad. sk. Yarkand, Nov. 28, 1874 (J. Tweeddale Coll. 



Biddulph). 



