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Crimea. Abbott records it from Trebizond ; and Dr. G. Eadde obtained five specimens in the 

 Caucasus, at Tiflis, on the Chram River, and in Betania. It occurs, he says, in the palace- 

 gardens in the centre of the town of Tiflis in winter, and he obtained it twice there, but he adds 

 that he never met with it in the forests of Talysch. Dr. Eadde unites Picus sancti-johannis and 

 Picus medius, and says that the Middle Spotted Woodpeckers he obtained in the Caucasus were 

 intermediate : I have not been able to procure a specimen of this Woodpecker from the 

 Caucasus for comparison ; but, seeing that the present species inhabits Asia Minor and Persia, it 

 appears to me most improbable that Dr. Padde is correct in his statement. Sir Oliver St. John 

 met with this Woodpecker in the wooded hills of South-western Persia at altitudes of from 

 4000 to 8000 feet, where it was particularly numerous in the oak-forests ; it does not, he says, 

 extend into Central Persia. 



In habits this species is stated not to differ from Picus medius, and its nesting-habits are 

 doubtless similar to those of that species. 



As the present species differs so little from P. medius, I have not deemed it necessary 

 to figure it. 



The specimens described are in my own collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined, besides the series in the British 

 Museum, the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, $ ad. Gozna, Taurus, December 15th, 1875 (C. G. Danford). b, $ ad. Gozna, December 24th, 1875 

 (C. G. Danford). c, $ juv. Smyrna, June 30th, 1877 {Dr. Kriiper). 



