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(170^) Yuiigipicus seebohmi Haiigitt. 



Ko-gera. 



1862. — Ficus kiauki Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, p. 325 {ueo Temm.). — Id., CbrysautL., Jan., 

 1883, p. 28 {part).— Id., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., XI, 1883, p. 137.— Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 451.— Blak. «&.Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 229 {part).— lid., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., 

 VIII, 1880, p. 208 {part).— lid., ihid., X, 1882, p. 134 {jmrt). 



1884. — Ijingipicns seebohmi Hakgitt, Ibis, Jan., 1884, p. 100. — Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 

 179. — Ficits 8. Blakiston, Amend. List B. Jap., p. 45 (1884). 



The distinguishing characters of this form have already been dis- 

 cussed under the foregoing species. It breeds in Yesso, whence in 

 winter it probably straggles across the Tsugaru Strait into Northern 

 Hondo. 



DRYOCOPUS Boie. 



1826. — Dri/ocopus Boie, Isis, 1626, p. 978 (type P. martins Linn.). 



18'iS.~ Dendrocojrus Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1274 (nee Vieill., 1816) (same type). 



1829. — Carbonarius Kaup, Entw. Enr. Tbiervv., p. 131 (same type). 



1831. — Dryotomus Swainson, Faun. Bor. Amer., II. p. 301 (same type). 



1837. — Heynilophus Swainson, Classif. B., II, p. 309 {ty ^e j)ulverulentus), (nee Serv. 



1835). 

 1849. — Dryopictis Malherbe, M^m. Ac. Metz, 1849-1850, p. 320. 



ISoO.—DryopicKS Malherbe, Class. Nouv. Pic, Sept. 1850, p. . 



lHoi. —Mullef-ijnc'is Bonaparte, Cousp. Vol. Zygodact. Estr. Aten. Iral., No. 8, 1854, 



p. 7 (type puherulentus Temm.). 

 18.54. — Lichtensteinipicus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zygodact. Estr. Aten. Ital., No. 8, 



1854, p. 7 (type modestus ViG.). 

 1854. — Alophunerpcs Reichenbach, Handb. Sp. Ornitb., II, Oct. 1, p. 385 {ty^te pulveru- 



lenius). 

 1855. — Picas Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Br. Mus., p. 91 (type martius L.). 

 1861. — Alophiis Mai.uerb^, Monogr. Pic, I, p. 47 {ty^e piilvcruleJitus), (nee Sch5nh., 



1826). 

 1861. — Macropicus Malherbe, Monogr. Pic, I, p. liii (same type). 

 1863. — Thriponax Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein., IV, p. 105 (type P. javensia 



HORSF.). 



synopsis OF THE JAPANESE SPECIES OF THE GENUS DBYOCOPUS. 



a*. Abdomen and lower back black as the rest of tbe plumage {Dryocopus) . . D. martius. 

 a*. Abdomen and lower back white ( $ ) ( Thriponax) D. rickardsi. 



