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Yungipious siasiensis , new seecies 
Siasi ^igmy Woodpecker. 
Tyne.- No. 210765, U.S.National Museum. Adult male from Siassi 
Island, Philippines, October 12, 1906, by Edgar A. Mearns. ' (original 
number 14401.) 
Mr. E. Hargitt, in the original description of " Yunglpicus ramsayi " 
in the "Ibis" for 1881, rage 598, gave the type-locality as "North¬ 
east Borneo"; but the same author, in the "British Museum Catalogue 
of Birds", Vol. XVIII, p. 335, states that the type was an adult male, 
collected by A. Everett, in the "Ruin Islands". 
An adult male s ecimen (No. 211344, U.S.National Museum) col¬ 
lected by Dr. Paul Bartsch, February 23, 1908, on Papahag Island, off 
Tawi-Tawi, one of the southern islands of the Sulu group, agrees with 
Hargitt*s Yunglpicus ramsayi . 
Adult Male (type).- Similar to the male of Y. ramsayi , but with 
a smaller bill and without white markings on the upper surface of the 
primaries or secondaries exceot a small concealed white snot on inner 
webs of several secondaries, and with much less white on the inner 
margins of the inner webs on under side of wing; and the orange- 
yellow of the tinder parts is much more restricted, being confined to 
a narrow band across the chest. 
Adult female (Ho. 210746, U.S.National Museum, killed at the same 
time and place as the tyre, with which it was apparently mated). 
Similar to the ma}.e, but lacking the elongated scarlet feathers on the 
edge of the posterior half of the crown and occiput, the entire upper 
surface of head and neck being dark brown. The white markings of 
the upper and under sides of the wings are restricted to the same ex¬ 
tent as those of the type, and tend to form a very narrow browish white 
