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GENUS lYNGIPICUS Bp. 
The Pygmy Woodpeckers are about the size of a Sparrow; the bill about 
as long as the head tapering to a point ; the wing rather long, the first primary 
very small, about 74 the length of the second, the 3''^, 4^^ and 5*^ are the longest; 
the reversed fourth toe is longer than the third toe; the tail is short, about 
Y 2 the length of the wing, the lateral rectrices normal and not much stiffened, 
the middle feathers and to a less extent the adjacent feathers pointed and stiffened. 
Hargitt recognised 18 species ranging from India, E. Asia and Japan to the 
Philippines, Celebes and Flores, and one aberrant species with a wide range 
in Africa. 
4 * 55. lYNGIPICUS TEMMINCKI (Malh.). 
Temminck’s Pygmy Woodpecker. 
a. Picus temmincki (1) Malti., Pev. Zool. 1849, 529; {II) Malli., Picidae 1861, I, 155, 
pi. XXXyi, fig. 3 Q ; {S) Briiggem., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 49; {4:) Bosenb., 
Malay Archip. 1878, 275 (Timincki err.). 
~b. Yungipicus temmincki (1) Bp., Consp. Yol. Zygod. 1854, 8; (2) Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872, 
YIII, 41, 111; {3} Salvad., Ann. Mas. Civ. Cen. 1875, VII, 647; (4) Meyer, Ibis 
1879, 57; (5) Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 206. 
lyngipicus temmincki (1) Hargitt, Ibis 1882, 49; (II) Gould, B. Asia YI, pi. XXY, (Y, 
Q (1882); (3) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 546; (4) Marshall, Die Spechte 1889, 64; 
(5) Hargitt, Cat. B. XYIH, 1890, 335; (6) M. &Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, 
Xr. 8, p. 6; (7) iid., ib. 1896, Xr. 1, p. 8; (8) Hartert, Xov. Zool. 1896, 159; (9) 
id., ib. 1897, p. 158. 
“Tatangkul kokie”, Manado District, Xat. Coll. 
“Tukang ketjil”, Malay, near Manado, Xat. Coll. 
For further synonymy and references see Hargitt 4. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould II; Malherbe all, a 1; Walden b 2; Salvador! h 3; 
Hargitt 1, 5. 
Adult male. Mantle, back, and . scapulars dusky olive-green, barred with huffy; rump 
uniform buff; upper tail-coverts and tail darker buff, barred with bistre-brown; 
wing-coverts and quills darker dusky olive-green, marked with rather large huffy 
white spots on the outer webs of the coverts near their ends, notched with huffy on 
both websY of the quills nearly meeting so as to form bars about 8 mm apart; head 
above and ear-coverts olive; lores, a supra-orbital stripe, sub-orbital and 
malar stripe, and a nuchal patch, huffy white; a collar behind ear-coverts, 
not quite meeting at the nape, scarlet-vermilion; chin and throat slate-grey, the ends 
of the feathers white; under surface bistre-brown, the margins of the feathers paler 
and fulvous — whitish on the sides and flanks, — giving a broadly streaked appearance; 
under wing-coverts white, olive about the metacarpal edge; quills below ohve, 
more broadly barred with white than above (near Manado, [(Y] Aug.- Sept. 1892, 
C 10856). 
“Iris brown [“dull crimson”, Doherty 5]; bill greyish brown; tarsus dull ohve” 
(Guillem. 3). 
ij Hargitt speaks only of tlie outer webs of the quills as being spotted with white. 
