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VOL. XXXII. 



SYRNIUM URALENSE HONDOENSE Clark, new subspecies. 



Type.— -Cut. No. 109441 U.vS.N.M ; male, Iwaki, Hondo, Fel)i-iiarv 

 2, 1886. 



Similar to S. u. japonicwm, but darker and more brownish, the 

 white above more restricted, the light markings on the primaries and 

 secondaries more restricted and never reaching the shaft; bars on 

 tertials and inner secondaries with dark centers, sometimes reducing 

 bars to mere outlines; bars on central pair of rectrices reduced to a 

 double row of irregular spots; dark central streaks of feathers of 

 lower breast and abdomen suddenly expanding near tip into an 

 arrowhead figure, which occupies the whole tip of the feather, and 

 not tapering almost to a point as in *S'. u. japonicum. The feather- 

 ing of the feet is as in Syrnium fuscescens. 



The type measures, wing, 317 mm.; tail, 258 mm. 



This subspecies represents S. u. japonicurn of Hokkaido, in the 

 island of Hondo. 



DRYOBATES LEUCOTOS COREENSIS Clark, new subspecies. 



Type.^Cat. No. 114112 U.S.N.M.; male, Fusan, Korea; P.L. Jouy, 

 collector. 



Resembles D. I. leucotos frcnn Norway, but with the white above 

 mOTe restricted and the under surface tinged with pale buff, approach- 

 ing D. I. suhcirris from Japan. In D. I. coreensis the under wing cov- 

 erts at the base of the primaries are dark brown, instead of white 

 slightly mottled with brown as in D. I. leucotos. In. the former the first 

 primary has one spot of white (in one specimen an indicated second), 

 the second primary two (the distal usually much the smaller) , the 

 third two (in one specimen an indicated third), and the fourth two 

 larger and a distal smaller spot; in the latter the first primary has two 

 white spots, the second two and an indicated third, the third three, and 

 the fourth three, all of about the same size. The white patch on the 

 upper wing coverts of D. I. coreensis is much smaller than in D. I. leu- 

 cotos. The outermost tail feathers in D. I. coreensis are black, mar- 

 gined with white on the outer web only in two specimens ; in two others 

 the white extends over the tip and down the inner web for about two- 

 tenths of an inch. The outermost large tail feather in one specimen 

 has one brown subapical spot on the outer web, in two has two, and in 

 one has two and a very small third. In D. I. leucotos the outermost 

 tail feather has the outer web (more "broadly than in D. I. coreensis) 

 white, and two large spots of white on the inner web; the outermost 

 large tail feather has three brown spots on the outer web. 



The average measurements of two males from Fusan, Korea, are, 

 wing, 144 mm.; tail, 93 mm.; culmen, 36.5 mm.; tarsus, 26.5 mm. 



A female from Fusan measures, wing, 144 mm.; tail, 93 mm.; cul- 

 men, 33 mm. ; tarsus, 25 mm. 



