Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus lyngipicus. 25 



1. Iyngipicus semicoronatus. 



Picus pygmceus (old bird), Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 197 

 (1845, nee Vigors). 



Picus semicoronatus, Malherbe, Bull. Soc. d^Hist. Nat. Metz, 

 1848, p. 21 ; id. Monogr. Pieid. i. p. 148, pi. xxxiv. fig. 8 

 (1861) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Piein. p. 27. no. 7Q (1866); Gray, 

 List Picidffi Brit. Mus. p. 40 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 184. 

 no. 8584 (1870). 



Picus rubricatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xviii. p. 804 (1849) ; 

 id. Cat. B. Mus. Beng. p. 63. no. 299 (1849) ; Beichenbach, 

 Handb. Picinge, p. 373 (1854). 



Yungipicus semicoronatus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 

 (1854). 



Yungipicus rubricatus, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 276 (1862) ; 

 Bulger, Ibis, 1869, p. 156; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 8; Hume 

 & Gates, Str. F. 1875, p. 60; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 87. 



Bceopipo semicoronata, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. 

 p. 54 (1863). 



/. fascia occipitali rubra ; rectricibus 4 centralibus et tectri- 

 cibus supracaudalibus nigris. 



Hab. in regione Himalayana orientali. 



There can be no doubt that Malherbe^s name for this 

 species is the older one, and that Blyth's name comes second. 

 The last-named naturalist first described the bird as the fully 

 adult of /. pygmceus, and found out his mistake four years 

 later ; in the meantime, however, the species had been named 

 by Malherbe. Mr. Hume, in his review of the Indian Pygmy 

 Woodpeckers, states that he has only seen the present species 

 from Sikkimj but it also occurs in the Khasia and Naga 

 hills, and in Capt. Wardlaw-Barasay^s collection is a specimen 

 from Jeypore. According to Dr. Jerdon this species is found 

 in Nepal and Sikkim, where it is not very rare (B. Ind. i. 

 p. 277). The same author states that it extends to North 

 Cachar (Ibis, 1872, p. 8). There are no examples from 

 Nepal among Mr. Hodgson's skins in the British Museum. 

 The following is a list of all the specimens examined by 

 me : — ■ 



