Birds of Celebes: Picidae. 
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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 ‘/i 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 
1/2 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. 
* 55. lYNGIPICUS TEMMINCKI (Malh.). 
Temminck’s Pygmy Woodpecker. 
a. Picus temmincki (1) Malh., Eev. Zool. 1849, 529; (II) Malh., Picidae 1861, I, 155, 
pi. XXXVI, fig. 3 $; (S) Briiggem., Ahh. Yer. Bremen 1876, V, 49; (4) Eosenb., 
Malay Archip. 1878, 275 (Timincki err.). 
b. Yungipicus temmincki (1) Bj)., Oonsp. Vol. Zygod. 1854, 8; (2) Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872, 
VIII, 41, 111; (3) Salvad., Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 647; (4) Meyer, Ibis 
1879, 57; (5) Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 266. 
lyngipicus temmincki (1) Hargitt, Ibis 1882, 49; (IIj Gould, B, Asia VI, pi. XXV, o^, 
$ (1882); (3) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 546; (4) Marshall, Die Spechte 1889, 64; 
(5) Hargitt, Cat. B. XVIII, 1890, 335; (6) M. &Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, 
Nr. 8, p. 6; (7) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 8; (8) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 159; (9) 
id., ib. 1897, p. 158. 
“Tatangkul kokie”, Manado District, Nat. Coll. 
“Tukang ketjil”, Malay, near Manado, Nat. Coll. 
For further synonymy and references see Hargitt 4. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould II\ Malherbe all, al\ Walden b 2\ Salvador! i 5; 
Hargitt 7, 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 lai’ge huffy 
white spots on the outer webs of the coverts near their ends, notched with buffy on 
both webs^) 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, buffy wliite; a collar behind ear-coverts, 
not quite meeting at the nape, scarlet-vormilion; 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 wliite, olive about the metacaiqial edge; quills below olive, 
more broadly barred with white than above (near IManado, [o’] Aug.- Sept. 1892, 
C 10856). 
“Iris brown [“dull crimson”, Doherty .9]; bill greyish brown; tarsus dull olive” 
(Guillem. 3). 
1 ] Hargitt speaks only of tlie outer webs of the quills as being spotted with white. 
