630 ]5IKI)S FROM TOKYO, JAPAN STEJNEGER. 



No. IIMK), ;i yomij;- m;ile from Norikuia, .Inly 18, 1S!)1, is (juite inter- 

 esting. It is o-enerjilly paler than the adults and tlie pattern less de- 

 cided; the lateral nuelial red patches are present, but nearly the wliole 

 toi) of the head lias whitish sjjots at the tip of each featlun'. 



1 may finally be allowed a few general remarks on the status of Y. 

 sfchoJnni. It is a form but very slightly differentiated, but there is 

 enough uvcraye difference between the specinu'us fiom Yezo and those 

 from further soutli to make it prolitabh' to retain the name for the 

 northern form. r>ut I will emi)hasize the fact that the differences be- 

 tween Y. klzull and Y. li. sechoIi))ii,, w^hich the auth(U'S above referred 

 to have never ceased to nuiintain, are much snuiller than the differences 

 between the other races of woodpeckers in Japan ami Kamtchatka 

 described and named by me, but for which I have been lield np to the 

 horrilied ornithological public as an nnprinciiyled hair-si>littcr. Those 

 who cannot appreciate the distinctness of Dryobatcs purns and immu- 

 tabilis^ of Picoides albidior, or Picns yessoensis, should give up Yiingip- 

 icus sechohnn' as soon as possible. 



(167) Dryobates japoniciis (Seeb.). 



T)i-. Tjima sends four specimens to help mie solve the question as to 

 the possible distinctness of the Yezo birds; one of the specimens (No. 

 1187, 9 , Sapporo, March 13, 1880, Nozawa coll.) being from the latter 

 island, while tlirce (No. 1413, 9 , Tokyo, November 30, 1890, Tjima coll., 

 No. 101)8, 9 , Sagami; and No. 1093, S , Ogawa, I)ecend)er o, 1893) are 

 from Hondo. 1 do not know the exact location of ()g;iwa, l)ut I do not 

 believe it to be south of Yokohama. 



An inspection of this additional material only corroborates the view 

 expressed in my paper on Henson's Hakodate birds (Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mns., XV, No. 904, 189L*, p. 2!)9). The Yezo bird is the i)alest specimen, 

 although very closely approached by tlu^ one from Ogawa, but in the 

 former the white shoulder i^atch is decidedly larger. The Tokyo spec- 

 imen has all the white ])ortions strongly Avashe<l with dee]) ferruginous, 

 evidently a superficial stain. 



(255) Pitta nympha 'rfiiiiii. and Sdil. 



An adult specimen (No. ir)80) from the i)rovince of Inaba. 



1 have compared i\ carefully w'ith the pair collected by ^Ir. P. L. 

 Jouy in Tsushima and find it to agree in every i)articular. The brown 

 of the head only is a little deeper and a few^ of the middle wing coverts 

 have near the tip a mesial l)lack wedge, i)resumably due to age. The 

 seutellation in the front of the tarsus is also unusually distinct, point- 

 ing in the same direction. 



Dr. IJima writes me in regard to this sjtecies as follows: ''This is one 

 of two specimens said to liaAc conu? from the province of inaba. I pur- 

 chased both for the Museum. That this species does occur in the south- 

 ern ])rovinces, for instance in Kin Sin, there can bt^ no dcudtt at all. Mr. 



