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whilst the latter diflFer very slightly from the typical form in the 

 colour of the underparts, the race which inhabits Southern Japan 

 differs from all other races of this species in having the white confined 

 to the throatj and the crimson on the belly much more developed 

 and graduating on the breast into brownish buff. This race inter- 

 grades with the Yezzo race, and can only claim subspecific rank as 

 Pious leuconotus subcirris. 



135. PICUS NAMIYEI. 

 (STEJNEGER'S WOODPECKER.) 



Dryobaies namiyei, Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 116. 



Stejneger's Woodpecker is rather less than the White-backed 

 Woodpecker (wing from carpal joint 5f inches), which it very closely 

 resembles in colour, except that the white is everywhere much reduced 

 in extent. 



Figures : Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1886, pi. 2. 



Stejneger's Woodpecker is only known from a single example in 

 the Tokio Museum, which was obtained at Yamato, south-west of 

 Osaka (about halfway between Nagasaki and Yokohama), and which 

 has been examined and described by Dr. Stejneger (Blakiston and 

 Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 133). It is of the same 

 size as Picus leuconotus subcirris (wing 5" 75 inches), but in colour it 

 comes nearest to Picus insularis from Formosa. The latter is a 

 smaller bird (wing 5*4 to 5*2 inches), but has more white on the 

 back and on the wings. Stejneger's Woodpecker agrees with Picus 

 insularis in the colour of the underparts, which are much more 

 streaked with black on the breast and flanks than in Picus leuconotus. 

 It differs from Picus insularis in the upper parts in having broad 

 instead of narrow black tips to the feathers of the lower back. Its 

 specific rank is very doubtful, but until a series has been obtained it 

 is impossible to say with which species it intergrades. 



136. PICUS MAJOR. 

 (GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER.) 

 Pkws major, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 176 (1766). 

 The Great Spotted Woodpecker is a medium-sized species (wing 



