38 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus lyngipicus. 



distinguish it from /. canicapiJlus. It differs in being 

 a very much smaller bird^ and in having the four central 

 tail-feathers unspotted, and also in having a remarkably 

 short bill. Mr. Gates informs me that specimens have occa- 

 sionally a white spot upon the central tail-feathers. This is 

 probably the bird referred to by Capt. Feilden as occurring 

 in the dense jungles around Thayetmyo {cf. Hume, Str. F. 

 1875_, p. 59), and which, no doubt, extends into South Te- 

 nasserim. In true /. canicapillus from the latter locality, I 

 have found the four central tail-feathers uniform, and at 

 other times with only one white spot upon each feather ; but 

 the birds are clearly separable by their much larger size in 

 every way. The measurements, for comparison, I give below. 



/. canicapillus. 

 S . Wing 3-2, tail 1-65, bill 0-67. 

 ? . Wing 3-2, tail 1-6, bill 0-65. 



/. pumilus. 



S . Wing 2-78, tail 1-3, bill 0-52. 

 ? . Wing 2-78, tail 1-25, bill 0-55. 



E Mus. E Hargitt. 

 a, b. ^ ^ ad. South Tenasserim {E. W. Oates). Types of 

 species. 



12. Iyngipicus nanus. 



Picus nanus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 172; Gray, Gen. B. 

 ii. p. 435 (1845). 



Yungipicus nanus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 6 (1854). 



Baopipo nana. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 57 

 (1863, note). 



/. similis /. aurito ex Malaisia, sed subtus late et palUde 

 brunneo striatus. 



Hab. In'iregione Himalayana scptentrionali occidentali. 



The type of this species was formerly in the Zoological Soci- 

 ety's Museum; audit is to be regretted that the British Museum, 

 which had the opportunity of seeming all the types in that col- 

 lection, failed to obtain that of P. nanus of Vigors. Malherbe 

 appears to have seen the actual specimen described by Vigors ; 



