430 Dr. E. Hartert on Birds from 



It seems to me now that the Siberian Great Spotted 

 Woodpeckers (except those from the furthest east) are indis- 

 tinguishable from the typical D. major of Sweden and North 

 Russia. Hargitt (Cat. B. xviii.) mixed the Kamtschatkan 

 form with the Siberian. In no case, however, can Pallas's 

 name cissa be used for the Siberian form, because Pallas 

 did not give the name cissa to the Siberian form as dis- 

 tinguished from the true major; but his name was to be 

 merely a more suitable name for Linnseus's Picas major, as 

 was the case with many other Pallasian names. The diagnosis 

 does not refer to the Siberian form in particular, and the 

 distribution is : " Per omnem Rossiam et Sibiriam/' 



[Five nestlings were found placed in the hollow of a 

 fir-tree about twenty feet from the ground, the locality being 

 some twenty miles west of Yakutsk. They were seven days 

 old, approx. This species was observed to be well dis- 

 tributed between Yakutsk and Gigalowa.] 



35. PlCUS CANUS PERPALLIDUS Stejn. 



Picus canus perpallidus Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 1886, p. 107 (Ussuri). 



$ ad. Upper Lena River, 7. vi. 1903. (No. 25.) 

 The Siberian Woodpeckers belonging to this species are so 

 obviously paler and greyer above, greyish and not greenish 

 below, that Hargitt's remarks in * Ibis,' 1888, pp. 19-21, are 

 incomprehensible. Whether it will be possible to separate 

 P. c. yesso'ensis and P. c. perpallidus is another question, which 

 I cannot answer at present. If they are not separable, the 

 name yesso'ensis would have to embrace them both. 



36. Dryocopus martius (L.). 



Picus martius Linnseus, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 112 (1758: 



" Habitat in Europa." Typ. loc. Sweden). 



(J ad. Upper Lena River, 8. vi. 1903. (No. 28.) 



[This specimen was shot while feeding upon the ground. 



It has a weird and highly pitched note in addition to sharp 



brief notes. The species was met between Gigalowa and 



Verkolensk.] 



