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PICUS PIPRA. 



(SIBERIAN LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER.) 



Picus pipra, Pall. Zoogr. Eosso-As. i. p. 414 (1811). 



Trichopicus kamtchatkensis, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygodact. in Ateneo Italiano, no. 8. p. 8, May 



1854. 

 Picus kamtschatcensis, Sund. Consp. Pic. p. 26 (1866). 



Xylopicus kamtschatcensis, (Bp.), Cab. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 53, footnote (1863). 

 Xylopicus pipra (Pall.), Cab. ut supra (1863). 



Figura unica. 

 Malh. Monogr. Pic. tab. 26. figs. 1, 3. 



Ad. Pico minori similis sed major : corpore subtus albo nee striato : dorso albo vix nigro notato nee distincte 

 fasciato sicut in Pico minore. 



Adult Male (Krasnoyarsk). Resembles Picus minor, but is larger in size, and the white portions of the 

 plumage are more extensive ; the back is not regularly barred, but has merely a few irregular 

 indications of bars ; underparts pure white, with the faintest possible indications of striations on the 

 sides of the breast ; outer tail-feathers much more faintly barred than in. Picus minor. Total length 

 about 6 - 5 inches, culmen 0'72, wing 3"8, tail 2 - 7, tarsus 0"68; soft parts as in Picus minor. 



Adult Female (Archangel). Differs from the female of Picus minor in the same way as the male does. 



When writing the article on Picus minor together with my late colleague Mr. P. B. Sharpe, now 

 over seven years ago, we referred to Picus pipra as a purely Siberian species, and were only in 

 possession of two specimens to compare with our European Lesser Spotted Woodpecker; but 

 since then I have not only had more examples for examination, but have been able to convince 

 myself that its range extends westwards into Europe ; so that it certainly must be included in 

 the present work. It appears that this northern and eastern representative of Picus minor 

 inhabits Siberia, the islands of Saghalien and Yesso, possibly also Japan proper, and North- 

 eastern Russia. 



I possess a specimen sent to me from Archangel, where Mr. Seebohm also shot it ; and this 

 gentleman likewise obtained it on the Petchora river in Northern Russia. He also informs me 

 that he has lately received a specimen from Krasnoyarsk, and that Dr. Theel saw it near where 

 the Nishni Tungorsk joins the Yennesei, in lat. 66° N. Messrs. Middendorff, Schrenck, Radde, 

 and Dybowski all met with this species in the portions of Siberia they visited ; and the notes 

 they have published respecting its presence there are given in our article on Picus minor. 

 Colonel Prjevalsky is also stated to have obtained it in the Ussuri country. Von Schrenck 

 records it as being tolerably common on the island of Saghalien, whence Mr. Seebohm has 

 received it, as also from Yesso. 



