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of the tertiaries, a character which is equally pronouuced as well in the 

 young in the first plumage as in the old birds. The Kamtschatkan 

 species, D. purus, in that respect resembles the European bird, not wit 1;- 

 standing the fact that in all other parts the white is more extensive and 

 purer than in any of the many allied forms. It is considerably larger. 

 and can never be confounded with its southern neighbors. 



Dryobates gouldii [Malh. ?] Gray. 

 ? Gould's Woodpecker. Akagera. 



1857. — ^ Picus calavisi Gould, B. of Asia, (pt. ix, pi. 10) (nee Malh., 1854.) 



1861. — f. Pk'UH {jonldli Malherbe, Mon.Picid. i, p. 62, pi. xvii, figs. 6,7. 



1861. — ? Picm lutiani Malherbe, Mon, Picid. i, p. 63, pi. xvii, figs. 4, 5. 



1868.— Pjc»/s major Blaklst. & Pryer, Ibis, 1868, p.'228 (part).— Ji<?., Tr. As. Soc. .Ja' 



■\nii, 1880, p. 207 (part). —7?rf., Ihid., x, 1882, p. 132 (part).— ? Seebohn; 



Ibis, 1879, p. 29. 

 1870. — PicuH gouldii Gray, Handl. B. ii, p. 181. 

 1883. — Picws major japonicus Blakist., Chrysanth., Febr., 1883, p. — (part). — IJ 



Amend. List B. Jap., p. 13 (part).— JouY, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., yi, Dec. .* 



1883. p. 307 (part). 

 1(^85. — Bryohatfg japonicus Stejneger, Orn. Expl. Kamstch., pp. 231,232 (part). 



I have already given my reasons for including this bird in the Japa 

 nese fauna, and expressed the oijinion that it breeds on Hondo to the 

 exclusion of D. japonicus. It should be mentioned, however, that the 

 distribution may he quite different. An inspection of the map com- 

 pared \\ith what we know about the climatology of the island might 

 lead one to think that the fauna of the western shore may be more like 

 that of Yesso than that of the eastern portion as far north at least as 

 rbe border of the Tokaido circuit. It is a fact that nearly the entire 

 western slope, and the whole northern portion of Hondo north of the 

 thirty eighth parallel is a terra incognita to ornithologists; a minute 

 exploration of these parts, and careful comparison of the birds breed- 

 ing there, may lead to very unexpected results. 



A young female in the first plumage was collected by Jouy at Fuji 

 Yama July 2, 18S2. It clearly bears out all the essential characters of 

 the species, aud is especially interesting on account of it being consid- 

 erably different from the young £>. major in the corresponding plumage 

 in other respects also. On the whole it is like the adult, though the 

 colors are duller ; the tertiaries have large exposed white spots in the 

 inner webs; the mahir black stripe is distinct and continuous all tiie 

 way, and the postauricular black stripe separating the cheeks and the 

 lateral neck patch is effecting a ])erfect connection between the malar 

 stripe and the black on the nape, as in the adult, consequently differing 

 from the young European D. major^ and resembling in that respect the 

 adult Dryobates merlins of Europe ; the posterior long scapulars are white 

 in the apical half, which is crossed by a broad, nearly continuous black 

 bar ; the continuation of the malar stripe, broadening behind, dissolves 



