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be restricted to the country lyiii^ south of the mountain range separat- 

 ing the circuits of Sanindo and Sauyodo. 



I take great pleasurein dedicating this interesting form toMr.Namiye, 

 the zoologist of the Tokio Educational Museum. 



It will be seen that we have been forced to conjecture that there ex- 

 ists in Japan three forms of the Great White-backed Woodj)ecker. 

 That in this " Prodromus" we have distinguished them by binominals 

 does not mean, however, that we regard them as separated by "hard 

 and fast " lines. We have not, by far, enough material to decide this 

 point, and the status of these forms as here represented is chiefly con- 

 jectural and provisional. So far as the material goes, it indicates a 

 dark southern form (D. namiyel), a lighter, larger, underneath buffcol- 

 ored form in the northern half of the Middle Island (Z>. suhcirris), and 

 a still whiter form {? D. Icucotos or cirris) breeding in Yesso. 



Subgenus XYLOCOPUS Cab. & Heine. 

 (168) Dryobates minor (Linn.). 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 

 ITfiS. — Plcusminor LiNX., S. N., lU ed., I, p, 114. — Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 29. — Id., ibid., 



1884, p. 36.— Blakist. & Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap.; VIII, 1880, p. 207.— 



Blakist., Amend. List B. Jap., pp. 28, 44 (1884). 

 I8i36. — Picus minoi' var. horealis Sundevall, Cousp. Piciu., p. 26. 

 1-^82. — Picas minor-jnpra Blakist., Chrysanth., 1882, p. 473. — Id., ibid., Ib83, p. 28. 

 1>S2.— Picus pipra Blakist. & Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., X, 1882, p. 133. 



The Japanese form of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is apparently 

 identical with the typical D. minor as the latter averages between Mid- 

 dle Scandinavia and Germany, and shows no particular approach to the 

 Siberian i). pipra proper, as has sometimes been alleged. The sides are 

 usually strongly streaked, the under tail-coverts always spotted, and the 

 outer tail-feathers provided with two or three cross-bars. 



Measiirfments. 



r. S.Nat. 

 Mils. No. 



Collector 

 and Ko. 



95999 Blak.,3013 

 9.}!)y7 |Blak.,2343 

 95y98 |Blak.,2345 



Sex and 



age. 



d ad. 

 d ad. 

 ? ad. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Sapporo, Teaso Oct. 1,1 882 



....do Apr. 28, 1877 



....do lMav.10,1877 



Total 

 ]enj;tb. 



"1.32' 

 "150' 

 "150' 



This species seems to occur only in Yesso, where it is a breeding resi- 

 dent. Blakiston only collected si)ecimens near Sapporo, altogether five, 

 three of which are enumerated above. His No. 2344 was a S shot April 

 29, Hakodadi Museum No. 754, total length, "155"""," and his No. 

 234G is the specimen referred to by IMr. Seebohm in the Ibis for 1871), j). 

 29. This was also a $ collected, on May 11, 1877, its total length being 

 " 152"""." 



