284 PICIDJ3. 



brown ; tail black, the six central feathers uniform, the remainder 

 barred with white upon both webs, the dwarf feather spotted or 

 hnrred on the outer web onlj- ; sbafts black ; nasal plumes black, 

 with bufty- white bases ; forehead, crown, occiput, and nape glossy 

 blue-black, the feathers of the forehead banded with white at the 

 tip, those of the crown being tipped with bright saft'rou-yellow and 

 having grey bases ; lores, a stripe from behind the eye passing 

 down the side of the neck, also one from the base of the upper 

 mandible and running under the car-coverts and down the side of 

 the neck, butty white ; ear-coverts and a broad stripe behind 

 blue-black : a broad blue-black malar stripe ; chin, throat, and 

 fore neck huffy white ; from the chest to the under tail-coverts 

 inclusive, partly black, partly brown, more or less spotted with 

 white, the brown portions being nearly uniform, the black more 

 clearly spotted with white ; under wing-coverts brownish black, 

 barred and varied with white : " iris brown ; bill brownish ; legs 

 blackish" (David). Total length 9 inches, culmen 1'17, wing 5, 

 tail 3' 15, tarsus 1 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'5, inner 

 anterior ()'45, posterior 0-55. 



Hab. Moupin, and the high wooded mountains of Western China. 



17. XENOPICUS. 



Type. 



Xenopicus, Baircl, Rep. Expl. S)- Stirv. Missis. Pacif. 



Railr. ix. Birds, p. 83 (1858) X. albolarvatus. 



Xeuocraugus, Cah. i,- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 74 



(I8G3) X. albolarvatus. 



Head of Xcnopirus albolarvatus. 



Range, Pacific coast-region from British Columbia to Southern 

 California, including both slopes of the Sierra Nevada. 



1. Xenopicus albolarvatus. 



Leuconerpes albolarvatus, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. ISoO, p. 106; 



Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zrjgod. p. 10, no. 204 (18o4). 

 Melanerpes albolarvatus, Cass. Journ. Acad. Philad. 1853, p. 257, 



pi. xxii., cJ 5> ad. ; Neioherry, Zool. Cal. ^' Oreg. Route 9, Rep. P. 



