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who at once most courteously sent me one of his specimens to compare. Directly I received it I 

 sent word to Mr. Hargitt and asked him to come to me so that we could compare it together, 

 and received a reply saying that he was confined to his bed, having taken cold, and he never 

 left it again, but sank rapidly, and I have to mourn the loss of one of my oldest friends, in whom 

 ornithological science has lost one of its most careful and accurate workers. 



Dr. Radde's specimen is a female, not fully adult, and, as stated by him, has only four white 

 transverse bands on the wing instead of five, as in P. minor ; but on one wing the fifth band is 

 there, though only partially developed ; and it appears to me that it is only a variety of P. minor, 

 and not entitled to specific distinction, especially as I find in my own series of Picus minor two 

 specimens which have four bands on one wing and five on the other. In every other respect the 

 specimen in question agrees closely with examples of P. minor from Northern Europe, but is a 

 trifle less in size, measuring — eulmen - 61 inch, wing 3 - 5, tail 2 - 05, tarsus 0"6. As regards the 

 underparts, they are somewhat browner in tinge, but not browner than are several specimens of 

 P. minor from different parts of Europe in my collection. 



The specimen of Picus danfordi the head of which is figured (together with that of Picus 

 minor for comparison) and those described are in my own collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, J 1 . Kuban, Caucasus, December 10th, 1891 ; /;, ? . Kuban, January 10th, 1892 (Tschasi-Schmidhoffen). 

 c, J 1 . Gozna, Taurus, December 17th, 1875 (C. G. Danford). 



E Mus. Brit. 



a, o ad. Zebil Taurus, Asia Minor, January 7th, 1876 ; b, ? ad. Anascha, Taurus, March 24th, 1876 

 (C. G. Danford). 



