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in Yauiato, southwest of Osaka, of the same size as female leucouotiiSy 

 measuring iu the wiug 152""".* It has red head, and general resem- 

 blance to the male leuconotns, but has much more black on the breast, 

 and the white iu the middle of the back is almost wanting. It may 

 possibly be a localized race if not distinct species." 



In Mr. Blakiston's manuscript notes there is the following remark in 

 regard to the same: " Not nearly so much white; no white on hind neck ; 

 certainly sufficiently distinct for another species." 



An inspection of the specimen, which Mr. S. Tegima, the director of 

 the Educational Museum, Tokio, had the kindness to loau^me, shows 

 that Captain Blakiston was right; and, so far as can be judged from 

 descriptions, our present bird seems to be nearer related to Dryohates 

 insularis Gould, from Formosa, than to typical D. leucotos or its repre- 

 sentative in the northern part of Hondo, J), subcirris. 



D. namiyei is an interesting analogue of Dryo&ofe* lUfordiirom South- 

 eastern Europe, but is much more different from the typical form than 

 is the latter, which has been generally accepted as a good species, dif- 

 fering from D. leucotos chiefly in having the white of the back and rump 

 transversely barred with black (in Dresser's figure, B. of Eur., v., pi. 

 280, we count about eight black cross-bars, against about two in our 

 bird) ; otherwise the white does not seem to be materially restricted. 

 Like the Japanese form of leucotos^ our bird has the whole rump per- 

 fectly black, and only the longest feathers of the lower back are barred 

 with white. But also in all other parts of the body the white is re- 

 stricted and supplanted by black, as already pointed out in the diag- 

 nosis and the "key." We shall only add, that the number of white 

 spots in the inner web of the })rimaries has likewise decreased by about 

 one in each feather. 



Having no specimen of Dryohates insularis from Formosa, we will have 

 to content ourselves with the descriptions, which, however, are some- 

 what contradictory inter se;] but it seems as if D. insularis^ in spite of 



* Evidently by flatteniug the wing. The dimensions given by njyself were taken 

 by means of dividers. — L. S. 



tThe following is the synonymy and the most important original descriptions of 

 this species : 



Dryobates insularis (Gould). 



im-l.—Picu8 insularis Gould, P. Z. S., 1862, p. 283.— 7d., B. Asia, pt. xvi, pi. — 

 (1864). — SwiNHOE, Ibis, 180:5, p. 390. — Sundevall, Consp. Picin., p. 24 

 {18ii6).— Ben drodron:as i. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, pt. ii, p. 38 (1863). 



Habitat : Formosa. 



The original description of Z). insularis by Gould is as follows (P. Z. S., 1802, p. 

 283): 



' ' Male : Forehead crossed by a narrow band of buff ; crown of the head, scarlet ; lores, 

 cheeks, sides of the neck and throat white ; a black line commencing at the base of 

 the lower mandible passes down between the ear-coverts and the throat on to the 

 sides of the chest, where it forms a broad patch ; flanks butfy white, strongly striated 

 with black ; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts rosy scarlet; mantle, 

 shoulders, upper tail-coverts, and four middle tail-feathers black ; center of the back 



