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EEVIEW OF JxVPANESE BIRDS. 



Comjyaratice mcasunmoits. 



DRYOBATES Boie. 



< 1816. — Dendrocopos Koch, Bayr. Zool., i, p. 72 (type P. tridactylus L.f). 



(uee Doidrocopus YiEii,!.., Aual., p. 45 (1816).) 



< 1826. — Dryobates Boie, Isis, 1820, p. 977 (type P. pubescens L.). 

 = 1828. — Fkus Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1274 (type P. major L.). 



^ 1829. — Dendrodromas Kaup, Entw. Europ. Tbierw., p. 136 (type P. leuconotus 



Bechst.). 

 ]> 1845. — Leuconotopicus JIalherbe, Rev. Zool., 1845, p. 373. 



> 1854. — Dyctiopicus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zyg. Estr. Aten. Ital., No. 8, 1854, p. 8. 



> 1854. — Phrenopicits Bonap.ajrte, Consp. Vol. Zyg. Estr. Aten. Ital., No. 8, 1854, p. 8. 



> 1854. — Trichopicus Boxaparte, Consp. Vol. Zyg. Estr. Aten. Ital., No. 8, 1854, p. 8, 



> 1854. — Mypopicus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zyg. Estr Aten. Ital., No. 8, 1854, p. 8. 



> 1854. — Pipripicus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zyg. Estr. Aten. Ital., No. 8, 1854, p. 8. 



> I6o4.—Leiopieus Bon-\parte, Consp. Vol. Zyg. Estr. Aten. Ital., No. 8, 1854, p. 8. 



> 1855. — Ficidiis Brehm, Nanniannia, 1855, p. 274 (type P. ndnoi- L.), (nee J.Geoffr., 



1832). 

 ^ 1863. — Bendroeoples Cab.^nis & Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, p. 41 (type P. mediiis L.). 



> 18&3.—Liopipo Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, p. 44. 



]> 1863. — Xylurgui C.\banis & Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, p. 50 (type P. hyperythnts 

 ViG.). 



> 1863. — Xylocopus Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein.,iv, p. 51 (type P. minor L.). 



SYNOPSIS OF the forms KNOWN TO OCCUR IN JAPAN. 



a\ Under tail-ooverts and abdomen red. 

 l^. Entire back black (Dryobates). 



cK Under surface Trbitisb ; scapulars mostly white D. japonicus. 



0-. Under surface brownish ; scapulars mostly black f D. fjouldii. 



fe*. With white on lower back (Dendrodromas). 

 c'. Great Aving-coverts with two rows of white spots j ear patch and lateral neck 

 patch continuous above, being only partly separated by a black line. 



<?'. Under surface and lower back white f D. lencotos. 



rF. Under surface and lower back white, strongly washed withbuflf; rump black. 



D. sitbdrris. 

 c'. 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 



D. namiyei. 

 a-. Under tail-coverts and abdomen without red (Xylocopus) D. minor. 



