22, ITNGIPICUS. 



315 



Hah. Island of Askold, East Siberia, aud the adjacent portion of 

 mainland, south into Corea. 



a. iS ad. sk. Island of Askold, November Henry Seebohm, Esq, 

 (Donies). [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



Subsp. /3. lyngipicus kaleensis. 



Pious kaleensis, Swinhoe, Ibis, 18G3, p. 390; Stmde>\ Consp. Av. 



Picln. p. 2G (1866) ; Grcnj, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 38 (1868) ; 



id. Iland-l. B.\\. p. 183, no. 8565 (1870). 

 Dendrotypes nesiotis, Cab. ^ Heine, Miis. Hein. Th. iv. p. 49 (1863). 

 Yuiigipicus kaleensis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 392; Havid ^- Ous- 



talet, Ois. Chine, p. 50 (1877). 

 lyngipicus kaleensis, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 32. 



Adult male. Resembles /, scintillictps, but is smaller, and the 

 white of the plumage is less developed ; the middle back is partially 

 and the lower back and rump are evenly and distinctly barred with 

 black ; the lateral tail-feathers are also very clearly barred with 

 black, and the underparts are more fulvescent and have broader 

 striations. " In October, bill light leaden grey, blackish towards 

 the tip, and tinged with greenish yellow at basal half of lower 

 mandible ; irides reddish brown ; legs greenish grey ; claws same 

 witli pale bases " (Swinhoe). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-77, 

 wing 3'7, tail 2"05, tarsus 0*63 ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0'45, outer posterior 0'53, inner anterior U'35, inner 

 posterior 0-25. 



Adult female. Wants the red stripe on the side of the occiput, 

 but otherwise resembles the adult male. Total length 5*8 inches, 

 culmen 0-75, wing 3"S5, tail 2"15, tarsus 0'(i5. 



Hah. The island of Formosa, and Eastern China, from Fokien 

 south into the island of Hainan. 



a, b. (S ad. et imm. ; 

 c. 5 ad. sk. 



d. $ ad. sk. 



e. d' ad ; /. 5 imm. 

 sk. 



g, h. <S ad. sk. 

 i. cJ ad. ; k. § imm. 

 sk. 



Formosa. 



Tamsui, Dec. 1866 {R. 



Swinhoe). 

 Fungshan, Dec., Jan. (R. 



Swinhoe). 

 Fokien. 

 Hainan, Feb. 1868 (R. 



Swinhoe). 



Purchased. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



C4ou]d Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll, 



3. lyngipicus pygmseus, 



Picus pyginseus *, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 44 ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. 

 xiv. p. 197 (1845) ; id. op. cit. xvi. p. 466 (1847) ; id. Ann. ^ Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. XX. p. 321 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 63 

 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 135 (1850); Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. 

 E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 676 (1856-58) ; Reichenh. Scans. Picime, p. 369, 



* A careful search has revealed the type, which stiU exists in the collection 

 {cf. Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 22). 



