318 



5. Ijmgipicus Mzuki. 



Picas kizuki, Tcmm. PL Col. iv. livr. 99, nee pi. 585 (1836) ; Up. 



Co7isp. i. p. It35 (1850) ; Eeichenb. Sca?is. Picince, p. 870, Taf. 



dcxxxvi. figs. 42.36-4i'38 (1854) : Gra?/, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 



p. 41 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 184, no. 8585 (1870). 

 Picus kisiilci, Tvvvn. Tahl. Meih. p. 64 (1836); id. ^- Schleff. Faun. 



Japon.]). 74, Taf. xxxvii. (1850) ; Malli. Picidcc, i.p. 154, pi. xxxvi. 



tigs. 1, 2 (1861) ; Sunder. Co/tsp. At: Piciit. p. 28 (1866) ; Wall. 



Isl. Life, p. 370 (1880). 

 Picus zizuki, Grcnj, Gen. B. ii. p. 435 (1845) ; Jenl. B. Ind. i. p. 279 



(1862). 

 Yunsripicus kisuki, Bp. Consp. T'oliicr. Zyr/od. p. 8 (1854) ; Stejii. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 120. 

 Picus kogera, Malh. Picidd', i. p. 154 (1861, MSS. ex sjiec. olim in 



Mus. Zool. Soc). 

 Ba?opipo kisuki, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 60 (1863). 

 lynsripicus kizuki, Haryitt, Ibis, 1882, p. 36 (pt.) ; id. op. cit. 1884, 

 ' p!" 100. 

 Picus (l3'ngipicus) kizuki, Blak. Amend. List B. Jap. pp. 25 & 45 



(1884). 



Adult female. Above, also the wings and their coverts, blackish 

 brown, the middle and lower back, rump, and scapulars barred with 

 Avhitc ; the median and the greater coverts, likewise both w cbs of 

 the quills, spotted with white, the spots on the outer webs of the 

 latter not exceeding tive, the shafts of the quills dark brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts and the four central tail-feathers black, the next feather 

 having the inner web black and the outer web huffy white, the 

 remaining feathers barred black and butiy white ; shafts black : 

 nasal plumes smoky white, tipped with black : top of the head 

 ashy brown, tinged with rufous ; lores white ; sides of the face and 

 neck brown, with a white spot above the eye, a patch of white on 

 the side of the neck, and a white stripe separating the ear-coverts 

 from the black malar stripe ; the sides of the throat and fore 

 neck broadly striped with brown ; chin and throat jnire white ; 

 fore neck and middle of the chest, also the under surface of the 

 body and under tail-coverts, fulvescent white,more dusky posteriorly; 

 the body from the breast, inclusive, dow nwards striped with brown, 

 the under tail-coverts spotted with the same ; under -wing-coverts 

 ■white, spotted with brownish black, the axillaries smoky white. 

 Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3'22, tail 1-82, tarsus 

 0-6; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-35, outer posterior 

 0-42, inner anterior 0-3, inner posterior 0-2. 



Adult male. Differs from the adult female in having a red stripe 

 on the side of the occiput. 



Immature female. Is browner above and on the wings; the top of 

 the head is browner, and the brown which borders the chest and 

 breast is less rufescent; the chin, throat, and under surface of the 

 body are duller, but similarly striped with brown, the flanks and 

 thighs, however, having confluent spots of brown, in the form of a 

 stripe. 



