15. DENDEOCOPTJS. 271 



Siibsp. a. Dendrocopus cirris. 



Picus cirris, rail. Zoor/r. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 410 (1831); Brehm,VoUd 

 Vof/elf. p. 69 (1855J ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Ficin. p. 24 (18(30). 



Picus leucoiiotus {no7i Bechst), Gould, B. Eitr. pi. (1837) • Malh N 

 Clam/., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, p. 327 (pt.); Middejul. Sib. 

 Seise, Zool. p. 132 (185]); Rewhenb. Scans. Pmn(s, p. 367, uo. 

 846, pi. dcxxxiv. fig. 4218, S (18-j4), pt. ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 75 

 (18o4), pt. ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1870, p. 239, 1878, p. 139 : 

 Fmsch, Verhandl. k. k. zool.-bot. GeseUsch. Wien, 1879, n 2-'7 • 

 Bolau, J. f. 0. 1882, p. 337. ' F - > 



Pipripiciis uralensis (Malh.), Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8, no. 51 

 (1854). 



Picus uraleiLsis, Malli. Ficidce, i. p. 92, pi. xxiii. figs. 4, b,<S $(1801). 



Dendrodromas cirris, Cab. et Hebie, Miis. Hein. iv. p. 39, Bote (1863). 



Adult male. Differs from D. leiiconotiis in having a greater amouut 

 of white upon the wiug-coverts, scapular.?, back, aud innermost 

 secondaries, occupying upon some of the latter almost the apical 

 half of the feather ; the striations on the uuderparts are uaiTower, 

 and the lateral tail-feathers less distinctly barred, the outer webs 

 being nearly uniform, and having at most one or two small spots of 

 black ; the dimensions arc slightly greater. Total length 1 1 inches, 

 culmen 1-7, wing oS, tail 3-6, tarsus 1-05 ; toes (without claws)— 

 outer anterior 0-6, outer posterior 0-7, inner anterior 0-5o, inner 

 posterior 0-38. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the red on 

 the crown and occiput, these being black, the partially exposed 

 white bases of the feathers of the fore part of the crown' showing 

 and producing a spotted appearance. Total length 10-5 inches' 

 culmen 1-5, wing 5-8, tail 3-55, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Central and Eastern Siberia, and westward into Central 

 Russia. Exact limits of range not known. 



a. S ad. sk. Upper Ural River, Ural 31ts., Dr. Severtzoff IC 1. 



Oct. 5th. ^ ^ 



Subsp. /3. Dendrocopus subcirris. 



Picus leuconotus (mom Bechst.), Blakist. Ibis, 1862, p. 325 : Swink 

 op. cit. 1875, p. 451 ; Blakist. ^- Fryer, op. cit. 1878, p. 229 ; iid 

 Trans. As. Soc. Jap. 1880, p. 208, 1882, p. 133; Blakist. Chn/.^anth. 

 188.3, pp. 28, 77; Jouij, Free. U.S. Nat. Mus. 188-3, p. 307; Blakist 

 Amend. List B.Jap, p. 1.3, no. 169 (1884). 



Picus uraleusis (non Malh.), White!;/, Ibis, 1867, p. 195 ; Gray, List 

 Ficid. Brit. Mus. p. 35 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 182, no. 8553 

 (1870). 



Diyobates subcirris, Stejneger, Froc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 113. 



Adult male. Differs from D. leuconotus in having the face, neck, 

 and the under surface of the body clear pale buff, and the black 

 striations rather broader, the uuderparts below the breast being 

 washed with brighter red ; there is also less white on the back, and 

 this has a yeUow tinge; the biU is longer and more powerful. 



