32 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus lyngipicus, 



E Mus. Brit. 



a. ? ad. Himalayas. 



b, c, d, e,f, g, h, i. (^ ad. Nepal {B. H. Hodgson), 

 j, k, I. ? ad. Nepal [B.H. Hodgson). 



m. ? imm. Nepal {B. H. Hodgson) . 



n, 0. (^ ? ad. India (Blagrave). [India Museum.] 



7. Iyngipicus kaleensis. 



Picus kaleensis, Svvinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 390 ; Sundev. 

 Consp. Av.Picin. p. 26 (1866) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 38 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 183. no. 8565 (1870). 



Dendrotypes nesiotis, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. 

 p. 49 (1863). 



Yungipicus kaleensis, Swinli. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 392; David 

 & Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 50 (1877) . 



/. similis /. pygmaeo, sed pauUo major, tectricibus alarum 

 medianis et raajoribus clarius albo maculatis, regione 

 parotica pallide umbriuo-brunnea. 



Hah. in regione Chinensi. 



This bird is really only a race oi 1 . py gmeeus , distinguished 

 merely by its larger size and having a greater amount of 

 white on the wing-coverts, and by the ear-coverts being of a 

 paler brown. It was first described by Swinhoe in ' The Ibis ' 

 for 1863, p. 390, from a specimen obtained in the island of 

 Formosa. Abbe David and M. Oustalet, in their admirable 

 work, ' Oiseaux de la Chine,^ p. 50, do not admit any specific 

 difference between /. kaleensis and /. scintilliceps ; they state 

 that I. kaleensis is found in Southern China, but that birds 

 killed at Kiangsi and Pekin are identical ; they further add 

 that they find, amongst birds from North China, individuals 

 as dark as those of the south, and are able to prove that the 

 birds which have the white rump entirely deprived of trans- 

 verse barring are very old birds. I have examined a large 

 series of I. kaleensis in the collection of Mr. Seebohm, bearing 

 Swiuhoe^s labels ; and amongst them I find several skins from 

 China, marked kaleensis ; but upon a very close inspection, 

 I think these may 'all safely be referred to /. scintilliceps, 

 except one marked Foochow (but with a query after the 

 locality), which I^cannot separate from the Formosan bird. 



