IYNGIPICUS TEMMINCKL 



Temminck's Pyg*my Woodpecker. 



Picus temmincM, Malherbe, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1849, p. 529.— Bp. Consp. i. p. 137 (1850).— Malh. Monogr. 

 Picid. i. p. 155, pi. xxxvi. fig. 3 (1861).— Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 29 (1866).— Gray, List 

 Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 43 (1868).— Id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8583 (1870). 



Yungipicus temmincM, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8 (1854).— Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. pp. 41, 111 

 (1872).— Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii. p. 647 (1875).— Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 157. 



Baopipo temmincM, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 60 (1863). 



Yungiceps temmincki, Meyer, J. f. 0. 1873, p. 405 (lapsu). 



Iyngipicus temmincM, Hargitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 49. 



Temminck's Pygmy Woodpecker belongs to the section of the genus Iyngipicus which contains two species 

 only. The other one, /. ramsayi, is figured in the present work, and is the representative Iyngipicus in 

 Borneo. Both these Woodpeckers differ from all the other members of the genus in having the back of an 

 olive-brown colour, with lighter bars or streaks ; and, as Mr. Hargitt has pointed out, there is really nothing 

 in common between them and /. kisuki, to which the late Prince Bonaparte compared /. temmincki. Its 

 nearest allies among the pied members of the genus Iyngipicus would be /. semicoronatus and /. meniscus, 

 both of which have an occipital band of scarlet instead of the two half-concealed tufts which are found on 

 the occiput of most of the species. The occipital band, however, of the Celebean bird is of a somewhat 

 different character from that which obtains in the two species above mentioned ; for, instead of conspicuously 

 surrounding the occiput, it is interrupted in the middle by a whitish nuchal patch. This was duly noted 

 by Count Salvadori ; but Lord Tweeddale appears to have been the only ornithologist who remarked the 

 peculiar way in which the scarlet occipital spot spreads on to the sides of the neck, and it is only in a 

 specimen in his collection that I have observed this character fully developed. At one time I thought 

 perhaps there might be two species in Celebes ; but Mr. Hargitt informs me that he does not consider this 

 to be probable, and that the extension of the scarlet spot is but a sign of the fully adult bird. 



Temminck's Pygmy Woodpecker has as yet only been found in the neighbourhood of Macassar, where 

 Mr. Wallace obtained it, and near Menado, where it was met with by Dr. Meyer. 



The figures in the Plate represent an adult pair of birds, the upper one being the male, and the lower 

 one the female. They are both from the Tweeddale collection, and have been kindly lent to me by 

 Captain Wardlaw Ramsay. The male is the bird referred to by the late Lord Tweeddale, and mentioned 

 above as having an unusual development of the scarlet nape-patch. Both sexes are represented of the 

 natural size. 



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