116 REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



Dryobates namiyei 8i». nov. 



Plate II. 



1882. — Piciis Uuconotus Blakist. &. Pryek, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., x, 1882, p. 133 (part). 



DiAGN. — Similar to D. leucotos (Bechst.), but. much darker; lower back with a few 

 white cross-bars only; white spots on wings fewer and smaller, and no white band 

 formed by the middle coverts, only a few of the inner ones having a white spot ; 

 great wing coverts with only one subapical white spot in the outer web; ear-patch 

 and lateral neck-patch completely separated by a black streak ; ^ wing, 146™™ ; 

 tail-feathers, 88™" ; exposed culmen, 34™"'. 



Type. — Tokio Educational Museum, No. 178 



Habitat. — Southwestern portion of Hondo Island, Japan. 



Description of the type {Tokio Edm. Mas. Ao. 178; Yamato, Hondo, Sept. 1876; 

 coll. H. Pryer) $ ad. — Hind neck, interscapilium, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars 

 and lower back (tergum) black, the feathers of the latter with broad white subapi- 

 cal bars, forming about three cross-bands ; a few of the hindmost scapulars have 

 similar subapical white bars; chin and throat white, the ground color of the rest of 

 the lower surface being similar, but tinged with buif, and from the lower breast 

 backwards strongly washed with a dull carmine ; a frontal band, and sides of head 

 and neck whitish, forehead and ear-coverts strongly suli'used with buif ; from the 

 mandibular apex a broad black band runs backwards between throat and ear-coverts, 

 sending off an ascending branch behind the latter, which joins the black on the 

 nape and completely separates the whitish lateral neck patch from the cheeks, and 

 descending to the sides of the breast, where widening into a large solid black 

 patch ; across the breast the patch is nearly connected with that of the other side 

 by a number of heavy black spots, and backwards they dissolve into large black 

 flames covering the sides and flanks ; middle of abdomen and crissum unspotted, but 

 the lower tail-coverts have a faint brownish streak in the middle; a few feathers 

 between the two pectoral patches are slightly tinged with dull carmine; wings above 

 black, the remiges with rather small white spots in both webs, which do not meet 

 across the shaft, except on the tertiaries ; primary coverts uniform black, except 

 a few of the external ones which are irregularly whitish at the extreme base and 

 have a rounded white spot in the inner web ; the great coverts have only a rounded 

 white spot in the outer web near the tip ; only a few of the innermost coverts of the 

 middle row have a subapical white spot in the inner web or across both webs, thus 

 forming a small and rather inconspicuous white spot ; the larger under wing-coverts 

 white with a subapical broad blackish band ; the smaller under wing-coverts black- 

 ish, the outer ones uniformly so, the inner ones more or less marked with white ob- 

 liquely over both webs ; axillaries with large blackish marks ; two central pairs of 

 tail-feathers uniform black ; the next pair also black, but with two brownish white 

 spots in the outer web near the tip ; in the following pair the tip is whitish, and so 

 are a broad cross-bar over both webs, and, higher up, the outer web for a consider- 

 able distance, with an adjoining small spot in the inner web ; the outer pair (except 

 the rudimentary one) is similar, but with one whitish cross-bar more ; rudimentary 

 pair black with two white spots in the outer web, the lower one occupying the tip ; 

 crown of head slate grey, each feather broadly tipped with dark crimson, behind 

 which is a distinct black cross-bar ; a narrow black edge separates the crown from 

 the whitish of the sides of the head. 



Dimensions : Wing, 146™™; tail-feathers, 88™™; exposed culmen, 34™™ ; ext. ant. toe, 

 without claw, 18™™. 



Bin g formula : 2<[7 ; 3<\6 ; 4<^5, ^6 ; 5 longest. f 



lu their " Birds of Japan" (Tr. As. Soc. Jap., x, 1882, p. 133) Messrs. 

 Blakiston and Pryer comment on the above specimen as follows : 

 " There is a specimen iu the Educational Museum, at Tokio, collected 



