ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



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No. 2019, cf . — Iris crimson. Bill plnmbeons, darker above; lower mandible below at base wbitish. 

 Feet gi-ay with an olive tinge, not at all bluish. Rather fat. In the stomach remains of a coleopterous 

 insect. 



No. 2024, d . — Colors as the foregoing. Not fat. 



No. 1700, 9 . — Iris carmiu-red. Bill bluish gray. Feet same color, onlj' a little darker. Stomach 

 crammed with the white large larvae of the flesh-fly. "So fat as a woodpecker can possibly be." 



The follovviug table of dimensions is added for comparison with the 

 allied forms : 



My surprise was verj' great when, on the 26th of October, 1882, I 

 held in my hand the female of this elegant bird, shot on the killing- 

 ground at the northern seal rookery on Bering Island. It had been 

 seen in the neighborhood for about fourteen days feeding on the enor- 

 mous masses of the white larvae of the flesh-fly, with which the whole 

 ground swarms at this season for more than a square mile. In spring 

 again I obtained two more specimens, two males, from different places 

 on the northern part of the island. These birds of the forest are, of 

 course, only stragglers from Kamtschatka, where the species is not un- 

 common. In the latter part of May and again in September, 1883, I 

 observed several individuals in the neighborhood of Petropaulski. 



104. Dryobates immaculatus Stejneger. ^ 



1858. — Picas minor Kittl., Denkw., I, p. 3"21 {nee Linn). 



IB82.—Picu.s kamtschatkensis Taczan., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882, p. 39G (nee 



Bp.\— Dybow., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, p. 368. 

 1883.— Denrfrocojjos immaculatus Stejneger, Pr. Biol. Soc. Wash., II, April 10, 1884, p. 



98. 



On a previous occasion I have briefly indicated that the Picus Jcam- 

 tschatchensis Bp. is not the Kamtschatkaii bird at all. As will be shown 

 more elaborately below, the form named thus by Bonaparte in 1854 is 



