450 
Mr. C. Ingram on the 
large birds, their wing-measurements varying from 5*4 in. to 
5-65 in. I quite agree with Dr. Hartert when he states that 
this form is hardly distinguishable from the true D. major 
as represented in N. Europe. My birds are almost exactly 
similar to specimens from that country. 
91. Dendrocopus minor. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. 
Tacz. 
p. 103 ; Dresser, 
p. 444. 
a, 
b. d 
f ? . Khingan Mts., alt. 3800 
ft. April 18 and 
1908. 
c. 
<?• 
Khingan Mts., 
alt. 3900 
ft. 
April 29, 1908. 
d. 
(?• 
99 99 
alt. 3500 
ft. 
April 30, 1908. 
e. 
? • 
99 99 
alt. 3700 
ft. 
May 2, 1908. 
/• 
? • 
99 99 
alt. 3600 
ft. 
May 30, 1908. 
S' 
?• 
99 99 
alt. 3700 
ft. 
June 8, 1908. 
Iris red-brown ; feet blackish ; bill bluish-black. 
In my birds the under surface is almost pure white and, 
in some examples, the under parts are practically free from 
striations ; the measurements are also fairly large. Con¬ 
sequently these Manchurian skins may be referred to the 
subspecies D. m. pipra. 
Hargitt gives the distribution of this race (Cat. B. 
xviii. p. 216) as a from the South Ural Range, across 
Siberia north of about 55° lat., and into Kamtschatka and 
Behring Island,” but in a footnote he explains that, for want 
of specimens and absence of information on the subject, he 
cannot be precise as to the range. Having gone through the 
extensive series now in the British Museum, I find that the 
white-bellied race, in the extreme east, extends far south of 
this latitude. As proof of this, there are good examples from 
the Ussuri Country as well as mine from the Khingan 
Mountains. West of the Urals the bird ranges into Lapland. 
A dingv-bellied form reappears in the Japanese Islands that 
is very like the typical D. minor. The ranges of the two 
races undoubtedly overlap to a considerable extent, for 
Taczanowski describes skins from Dauria that appear to 
approximate closely to the true D. minor. 
