124 REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



(171) Dryocopus martius (Linn.)- 



Great Black Woodpecker. Knma-gera. 



1758.— Ptc«s martiu8 Linn., S. N. 10 ed., I, p. 112.-/(7., S. N. 12. ed., I, p. 173 (1766).— 

 Dryocopus m. Bonap., Geogr. Comp. List, p. 39 (1838). — Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 325. — Id., Chrysantli., Jan., 1883, p. 38. — Id., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 28 

 (1884).— SwiNHOE, Ibis, 1875, p. 451.— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 229. - 

 lid., Tr.As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, pp. 177,208.— 7/d., f6i(?., X, 1882, p. 135. 



1758. — Picua cornicinus Linn., S. N. 10 ed., I, p. 113 (sub P, pileatum). 



1831. — Dendrocopus pi)ietorum Brehm, Handb, Vog. Deutschl., p. 185. 



1855. — Dryocopus alpinus Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 274. 



1855. — Dryocopus niyer Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 274. 



Not having access to Japanese specimens of the present species, our 

 Museum possessing none from Japan, I abstain from further remarks. 



Subgenus THRIPONAX Cab. & Heine. 

 (171|) Dryocopus richardsi* Trist. 

 Richards's Woodpecker. 



1879. — Dryocopus richardsi Tristram, P. Z. S., 1879, p. 336, pi. xxxi.— Blakist. 

 Amend. List B.Jap., p. 46(1884). — MuUeripicns r. Wallace, Island Life, p. 

 363 (1881).— Blakist. &PRYER, Tr.As. Soc. Jap., X, 1882, p. 136.— Thriponax 

 r. Hargitt, Ibis, 1885, p. 156. 



Beyond the descriptions and remarks by Tristram and Hargitt {Jl 

 cc.) on the type specimen, a female from Tshu Shim.a, which, to our 

 knowledge, is still unique, nothing is known about the present species. 



* To Vice- Admiral Sir George Henry Richards, H. Br. M. N. 



