398 Mr. E. Hargitt on a supposed new Woodpecker. 



the inner than on the outer web, by reason of the lighter 

 ground-colour of the former. The primaries are not cross- 

 barred in the paler specimen ; and in the type they are so 

 barred on the inner webs only. 



The under wing-coverts in the paler specimen appear to be 

 slightly commencing the assumption of the remarkable fer- 

 ruginous tint which characterizes them in the type, and which 

 extends also, in that specimen, to the axillaries and the 

 tibiae. In the paler specimen the axillaries are crossed with 

 alternate but somewhat irregular bands of white and brown, 

 the latter being tinged with ferruginous at the tip of the fea- 

 ther ; the thighs are, like the breast, white, slightly tinged 

 with fulvous, and a little variegated with brown. 



For further particulars of both specimens, and for the de- 

 tailed measurements of each, I must refer to Mr. Kidgway^s 

 ' Studies of American Falconidse,' p. 135, and to 'The Ibis ' 

 for 1876, p. 376. 



XXX. — On a supposed new Species of Woodpecker from 

 Eastern Siberia. By Edward Hargitt. 



My friend Mr. Seebohm, knowing the interest I take in the 

 family of Woodpeckers, has kindly lent me a male specimen 

 of an lyngipicus obtained by Mr. Dorries in tbe island of 

 Askold, Eastern Siberia. Mr. Seebohm himself recognized 

 the diflPerence between this bird and /. scintiUiceps , to which 

 it has been united, and was good enough to express a wish 

 that I should describe it. Herr Dorries, of the Hamburg 

 Zoological Gardens, has since sent me four specimens, 

 which fully confirm the distinctness of the species, which, in 

 justice to his son, the collector, I propose to name after the 

 latter. 



Iyngipicus doerriesi, sp. nov. 



Picus scintiUiceps, Bolau, Journ. f. Orn. 1880, p. 131. 

 /. afl&nis I. scintillicipiti, Swinh., sed conspicue major, et 

 faciei et colli lateribus clarius et purius albis, et plag^ 

 humerali (e tectricibus alarum medianis et majoribus for- 



