314 PICID-E. 



brownish black, the median and the greater coverts partly white, 

 tliis forming a conspicuous patch ; both webs of quills spotted with 

 white ; shatts brownish black ; the four central tail-feathers uniform 

 brownish black, the next feather externally margined with brownish 

 white; the two outer large feathers on either side more or less 

 brownish white, with indistinct dusky brown bars on the apical 

 portion ; shafts black; top of the head ashy grey, the occiput, nape, 

 and hind neck black ; on the side of the occiput a stripe of scarlet ; 

 nasal plumes, lores, sides of the face and neck huffy white, the ear- 

 coverts and a stripe behind pale umber-brown malar stripe dusky ; 

 chin and throat white ; entire under surface of the body brownish 

 white, slightly fulvescent, striped with black or brownish ; the under 

 tail-coverts brownish white with faint brown streaks ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries smoky white, the former with a conspicuous 

 black patch and a few small spots of black : " iris red ; bill horny 

 bluish ; feet bluish" (David). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0"G7, 

 M'ing 3'9, tail 2*2, tarsus 0'65 ; toes (withoiit claws) — outer anterior 

 O'-i, outer posterior 0'47, inner anterior 0'3, inner posterior 0'2. 



A<hdt female. Wants the red sti'ipe on the side of the occiput. 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 073, wing 3-85, tail 2"3, tarsus OG7. 



Examples from Ichang are intermediate between /. scintilUceps 

 and /. Icaleensis, having the tail resembling that of the former 

 species, and the lower back and rump distinctly barred with black 

 as in /. Icaleensis. 



Hah. China, from Pekin south to Poochow and west to Southern 

 Kansu. 



a. $ ad. sk. Pekin {A. David). Tweeddale Coll. 



b,c. cJad.; d. $ ad. sk. Icliang, Jan. 1888. Mr. Pratt [C.]. 



Subsp. a. lyngipicus doerriesi. 



Picus mitschelli {non Malh.), Radde, Eeis. Ost-Sihir. p. 140 (1802) ; 



Tacz. Bidl. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 240. 

 Picus scintilliceps, Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 139 ; Bolaii, 



Journ.f. Orn. 1880, p. 131. 

 lyngipicus doerriesi, Hargitt, Ibis, 1881, p. 398; id. op. cit. 1882, 



p. 35 ; Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. xxii., d 2 (1882) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 



1888, p. 466. 



Adult male. Eesembles /. scintilliceps, but is larger and has the 

 white of the plumage more developed, the middle and lower back 

 being pure white ; the black of the plumage is also more intense ; 

 the forehead and crown greyer, and the underparts less fulvescent : 

 "iris brown" (Doerries). Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 0-8, 

 wing 4-15, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-65; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0-4, outer posterior 0-48, inner anterior 0-32, inner pos- 

 terior 0-22. 



Adidt female. Eesembles the adult male, but wants the scarlet 

 stripe on the side of the occiput : " iris brown " (Doerries). Total 

 length 7"5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-1, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-63. 



