16. picoiDEs. 275 



Back brownish black, witli a narrow and broken 

 median stripe of wliite ; under surface of tlie 

 body brownish black spotted with white ; 

 throat and fore neck, also two stripes across 

 the face and down the side of the neck, pale [p. 283. 



buff funebris cJ J uv.*, 



1. Picoides tridactylus. 



Picus tridactylus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 177 (1706) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. 



i. p. 439 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 243 (1790) ; Meyer, Voy. 



Liv- u. EMh. p. 63 (1815) ; Meisn. &)• Schinz, Voy. Schweiz, 1815, 



p. 42 ; Niks. Orn. Suec. i. p. 112 (1817) ; Ciur. Hey. Anim. 1817, 



i. p. 423 ; Wayl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 101 (1827) ; Lrelun, Natury. 



Eur. Voy. i. p. 142 (1823) ; Naum. Voy. Beutsch. v. p. 346, 



pi. cxxxvii. figs. 1 (5, 2 $ ad. (1826); Gloy. Handh. Natury esch. 



Voy. Eur. p. 462 (1834) ; Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 232, ^ $ ad. 



(1837) ; Keys. <^ Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. xxxv and 149 (1840) ; 



Schinz, Enr. Faun. p. 263 (1840); Schley. Hei: Crit. p. 1 (1844) ; 



Sundev. Sv. Foyl. p. 142, pi. xxiii. fig. 6, ^ (1856) ; Maynus v. 



Wriyht, Finl. Foyl. p. 275 (1859); Dubois, Ois. Eur. p. 112, 



pi. cxii., c? 2 ad. (18G2) ; Prev. S( Lemaire, Hist. Nat. Ois. Em: 



p. 175 (1864) ; Sundev. Cons}). Av. Picin. p. 14 (1866) ; Boryyr. 



Voyelf. Norddeutschl. p. 68 (1869) ; Fmsch, Verhandl. k. k. zool.- 



bot. Gcselkch. Wien, 1879, p. 227 ; Seeb. Ibis, 1882, p. 374. 

 Picoides tridactylus, Lacep. Mem. de flnst. 1801, p. 509 ; Kaup, 



Natury. Syst. 1829, p. 135; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 434 (1845); 



Deyl. S) Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 154 (1867) ; Gray, List Picid. 



Bnt. Mus. p. 30 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 181, no. 8531) (1870) ; 



Salvad. Faun. Ital., Ucc. p. 39 (1871); Dress. B. Eur. v. p. 69, 



pi. cclxxxiv., d 2 ad. (1872) ; Danf. ^- Harv.-Br. Ibis, 1875, 



p. 299 ; Dress. Ibis, 1876, p. 320 ; d'Hamonv. Cat. Ois. d'Eur. p. 10 



(1876) ; Harv.-Broivn, Ann. ^- May. Nat. Hist. 1877, xx. p. 496; 



Giyl. Ibis, 1881, p. 190; Madar. Voy. Uny. 1881, p. 23; B. 0. U. 



List Brit. B. p. 78 (1883) ; Menzb. Bev. Cvmp. Faun. Orn. Gouv. 



Mosc. 4- Toula, 1883, p. 7 ; Giyl. Arif. Ital. p. 205 (1886). 

 Tridactylia hirsuta, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 219, pi. xxxviii., c? 



(1816) ; Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 25 (1863). 

 Dendrocopos tridactylus, Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 74 (1816). 

 Picus hirsutus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 103 (1818), pt. ; 



id. 8s- Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1324 (1823), pt. 

 Picoides variegatus, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 191 (1826), pt. 

 Drycibates tridactj'lus, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 326. 

 Picoides europajus, ie.i\<. Traiie, i. p. 217 (1831) ; Malh. N. Classif., 



Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, p. 329 ; id. Picidce, i. p. 170, pi. xxxviii. 



figs. 1, 2, 3, 6 (1861). 

 Picoides alpinus, Brehm, Voy. Deutschl. p. 194 (1831) ; id. Vollst. 



ToV/. p. 71 (1855). 

 Picoides montanus, Brehm, J'oy. Deutschl. p. 194, pi. xiv., J ad. 



(1831) ; id. Vollst. Voy. p. 71 (1855). 



* The type only is known, and exists in the Paris Museum. It is very 

 probable that the female vrill be foimd to want the yellow crown possessed by 

 die male. 



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