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II. Cryptolopha butleri Hart. 



A description oftbis tine new species is given in the Bull. B. 0. Club,\o\. VII. 

 p. 50 (May 1898). 



1-'. Serilophus rothschildi Harteit it Bntler. 



This most interesting form, which is a close all_v of .S. lunatus, is described 

 on the same ]mge as the Cijjitolojjlic, and lias beon named in honour of the Hon. 

 Walter Hothschild, by Unth-r's special rerjuest. Fonr specimens have been procured. 



\'-i. Gecinus rodgeri sp. uov. 



One adult male of this fine new Woodpecker was shot at 4i)00 feet on Gnnonjr 

 Ijaii, in March l.'^OS. It is named in compliment to Mr. J. P. Rodger, British 

 Resident at Selangor, who while acting as Resident at Perak kindly afforded every 

 facility for collecting on the Larnt Hills. 



G. rodgeri stands somewhat between (i. clilorolophus (Vieill.), which inhabits 

 the southern slopes of the Himalayas from about Simla in the west to Nepal, Sikkim, 

 Bhutan, and the forests of Assam, ( 'achar, Manipur, Burma, as far south as Southern 

 Tenasserim, and G. cJdovitjaster Jerd. from ( 'cylon and Southern India. It differs 

 from G. <-hlorfllnj>h'is m its much darker and more uniform green upperside, shorter 

 wing and darker abdomen, with much narrower whitish cross-bars. It differs from 

 G. cklonyuster in being larger, with the wing longer, and the middle of the crown 

 green, not red. The forehead and a line extending over the eye to the hindneck, being 

 ijuite narrow just above the eye, but aljout T mm. wide on the sides of the nape, bright 

 red. Loral streak from base of maxilla to just under the ear-coverts pale yellowish 

 bull'. Middle of crown and ear-cuverts dark olive-green. Malar stripe red. Nuchal 

 crest golden yellow. Rest ol' ui)perside olive-green, with a yellow gloss. Wings as 

 in G. chlori(jH»fir. Tail blackish brown. Underside dark olive-brown, with a faint 

 green tinge; sides of breast and abdomen, belly, and under tail-coverts narrowly 

 barred with bnffy yellowish white; middle of abdomen nearly uniform, most of the 

 bars being concealed. Total length about 2:i5, wing 12G, tail 95, tarsus 18, culmen 

 from base 27 mm. Iris reddish brown; bill blackish, mandible yellow at gape; 

 feet dirty olive-grey. 



The late Mr. Ilargitt enumerated a specimen of G. rodgeri as G. chlorolophxs 

 in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XVIII. p. (ill, and noticed that it was very different from 

 G. chlorolojihus and "but for the distribution of the red on the head resembled 

 G. chlorigaster." This specimen (also a male) agrees perfectly with the type of 

 G. rodgeri in the Tring Museum, and G. rodgeri is thus proved to be an excellent 

 new species. The female is not yet known. 



