100 Mr. E. Hargitt on a new Japanese Woodpecker. 



X. — Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. V. On a new Japanese 

 Woodpecker. By Edward Hargitt^ F.Z.S. 



When I wrote my paper on the genus lyngipicus (Ibis, 

 1882, p. 19) I was acquainted with only one species of the 

 genus from Ja]:)an. My friend Mr. Seebohm has, however, 

 recently shown me some specimens from the island of 

 Kiusiu, or Kimo, which differ materially from the bird de- 

 scribed in the above-mentioned paper as /. kizuki. Up to 

 the date of my paper I had only examined birds from the 

 northern island of Japan, and I was therefore somewhat sur- 

 prised to find that the species from Kiusiu is really the true 

 /. kizuki (Temm.), and that the more northern bird is appa- 

 rently without a name. Naturalists are so much indebted 

 to Mr. Seebohm for the excellent labour he has bestowed 

 upon the ornithology of Japan, that I trust my appellation 

 for this unnamed bird will meet with their approval when 

 I describe it as 



Iyngipicus seebohmi, sp. n. 

 Similis /. kizuki, sed major et subtus conspicue albescentior, 

 et prsecipue pilei colore cinereo, nee brunneo rufesceute 

 lavato distinguendus. Long. tot. 5*3, culm. 0'65, ala3 

 3"3, caudae 1*95, tarsi 0'62. 

 Hab. in insulis Japonicis " Niphon " et " Yezo " dictis. 

 Typ. in Mus. meo. 



Seebohm's Pigmy Woodpecker is a larger and whiter form 

 of/, kizuki. The underparts are conspicuously whiter, and 

 have none of the fulvescent tinge on the abdomen which is 

 to be seen in the last-named bird. The white barring on the 

 back is also more strongly pronounced ; but its chief claim to 

 distinction lies in the colour of the crown, which is of a clear 

 pale grey, instead of the brown head, with a rufous tinge, 

 which is seen in /. kizuki. The last-named species bears 

 the same relation to /. seebohmi that /. scintilliceps of China 

 bears to I. doerriesi of Eastern Siberia. 



The synonymy of the two forms will be as follows : — 



1. Iyngipicus kizuki. 



Picus kizuki, Temm. PI. Col. iv., text to livr. 99 (1835) ; 



