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Characters. — Closely related to Prioniturus waterstradti Rotlis- 

 cliilcl, from Mount Apo, southeastern Mindanao, from which it may 

 be distinguished hy its larger size, much yellower coloring of under 

 side, greener, less brownish back and scapulars, longer tail, but much 

 shorter naked shafts to the central pair of feathers. 



Adult female (type and only specimen). — Upper parts green, with 

 slight touches of bluish on forehead, and a light greenish brown 

 rump, as in P. ivatcvKtradti ; wings bright green above, with con- 

 cealed inner webs blackish, and outer webs narrowly edged with yel- 

 low; edge of wing pale yellow; rectrices green above tipped with dull 

 black, ber}^ green on under side, the shafts and spatules of the central 

 pair dull black, with webs all green to the naked shafts; entire under 

 parts golden green; axillars and lining of wings oil green; under 

 side of primaries dull black, broadly bordered on the inner webs Avitli 

 beryl green. Iris dark brown; bill pale horn color, faintly plum- 

 beous at base and tip of mandibles; feet and claws plumbeous (from 

 fresh specimen). 



Measinr/nciits of type (female). — Wing, 15:^ mm.; tail, 79 (to end 

 of lengthened central pair, 120); culmen from cere (chord), 20; 

 tarsus, K); middle toe with claw, 25. 



Measvremey^ts of adult female topotype of P. umterstradti (Cat. 

 No. 192136, U.S.N.M.).— Wing, 145 nun.; tail, 75 (to end of length- 

 ened central pair, 151); culmen from cere (chord), 18; tarsus, 15; 

 middle toe with claw, 25 (skin). 



YUNGIPICUS SIASIENSIS, new species. 

 SIASI PIGMY WOODPECKER. ' 



Type.— Cut No. 2107G5, U.S.N.M. Adult male from Siasi Island, 

 Philippines, collected October 12, lOOfi, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Origi- 

 nal number, 14401). 



Mr, E. Ilargitt, in the original description of '' lyngipiciis ram- 

 sayi,^'' « gave the type-locality as " Northeast Borneo ; " but the same 

 author^ says that the type was an adult male collected by A. Everett 

 in the " Sulu Islands." 



An adult male specimen (Cat. No. 211344, U.S.N.M.) collected by 

 Dr. Paul Bartsch, Feburary 23, 1008, on Papahag Island, off Tawi- 

 Tawi, one of the southern islands of the Sulu group, agrees with Har- 

 gitt's Yungipicus ramsayi. 



Advlt m,(de (type). — Similar to the male of Y. ramsayi., but with a 

 smaller bill and without white markings on the upper surface of the 

 primaries or secondaries except a small concealed white spot on inner 

 webs of several secondaries, and with much less white on the inner 



"Ibis, ISSl, ]). 508. '^British Miiseuni Catalogue of Birds, XVIII, p. 335. 



