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IYNGIPICUS DOERRIESI , Hargitt.
Dòrries’s Pygmy Woodpecker.
Picus scintilliceps, Bolau, Journ. fiir Om. 1880, p. 131 (nec Swinhoe).
Iyngipicus doerriesi, Hargitt, Ibis, 1881, p. 398.
T his species, which may be considered a large representative form of Iyngipicus scintilliceps o f Northern
China, has been lately described by Mr. Edward Hargitt from specimens collected by Herr Dorries in the
island of Askold, in Eastern Siberia. In Mr. Hargitt’s own collection are four more specimens from
Baranowsky, in Eastern Siberia, also obtained by Herr Dorries.
Although closely allied to / . scintilliceps, it differs from that species in being a larger and finer bird; and
when old specimens are compared, they can be easily told apart. The black in I . doerriesi is much deeper,
and the white much purer and of greater extent, the back and rump being entirely unbanded white, while
the eyebrow is whiter and the patch on the side o f the neck much more extended; and the same is the
case on the wing-coverts, where the white also forms a conspicuous patch ; the under surface of the body
is also lighter in tint.
These differences will be better appreciated by a comparison of the Plates of the two species; and I add
the diagnosis given by Mr. Hargitt in his paper above mentioned :—
“Allied to I . scintilliceps o f Swinhoe, but considerably larger, and distinguished by the sides of the face
and neck being clearer and purer white, and by the large white shoulder-patcb (formed by the median and
greater series o f the wing-coverts). Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0*8, wing 4 ’15, tail 2-5, tarsus 0*65.”
The measurements of the females are given by the same author as follows:—Total length 7'5 inches,
culmen 0 -8, wing 4*1.
The figures in the Plate are taken from the typical specimens—the male being lent to me by
Mr. Seebohm, and the female by Mr. Hargitt.
[R. B. S.]