IYNGIPICUS DOERRIESI, Hargitt. 



Dorries's Pyg-my Woodpecker. 



Picus scintilliceps, Bolau, Journ. fur Orn. 1880, p. 131 (nee Swinhoe). 

 lyngipicus doerriesi, Hargitt, Ibis, 1881, p. 398. 



This species, which may be considered a large representative form of lyngipicus scintilliceps of Northern 

 China, has been lately described by Mr. Edward Hargitt from specimens collected by Herr Dorries in the 

 island of Askold, in Eastern Siberia. In Mr. Hargitt's own collection are four more specimens from 

 Baranowsky, in Eastern Siberia, also obtained by Herr Dorries. 



Although closely allied to /. scintilliceps, it differs from that species in being a larger and finer bird ; and 

 when old specimens are compared, they can be easily told apart. The black in /. doerriesi is much deeper, 

 and the white much purer and of greater extent, the back and rump being entirely unhanded white, while 

 the eyebrow is whiter and the patch on the side of the neck much more extended ; and the same is the 

 case on the wing-coverts, where the white also forms a conspicuous patch ; the under surface of the body 

 is also lighter in tint. 



These differences will be better appreciated by a comparison of the Plates of the two species ; and I add 

 the diagnosis given by Mr. Hargitt in his paper above mentioned : — 



"Allied to I. scintilliceps of Swinhoe, but considerably larger, and distinguished by the sides of the face 

 and neck being clearer and purer white, and by the large white shoulder-patch (formed by the median and 

 greater series of the wing-coverts). Total length 7 5 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 4*15, tail 2*5, tarsus 0*65." 



The measurements of the females are given by the same author as follows : — Total length 7*5 inches, 

 culmen 08, wing 4*1. 



The figures in the Plate are taken from the typical specimens — the male being lent to me by 

 Mr. Seebohm, and the female by Mr. Hargitt. 



[R. B. S.] 



