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Gecinulus viridis, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 229 (listed) ; 

 Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 92 (Doi Pha Sakaeng, Khun 

 Tan). 



Gecinulus grantia viridis, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 601 ("Northern and north- 

 western Siam"). 



Gecinulus viridis viridis, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, 

 p. 249 (Doi Chiang Dao) .— Rilet, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 222 ("Doi 

 Phra Chao" [=Doi Saket ?]). 



In addition to the localities listed above, this bird has been found by 

 me at Ban Mae Mo and Ban Samoeng. It will probably be recorded 

 eventually from all the northern provinces but, in the lowlands of 

 Chiang Eai, may just possibly be replaced by the allied Gecinulus 

 grantia indochinensis. 



In our districts this species is very local, occurring only in extensive 

 brakes of tall bamboo, from the low hills (Mae Mo) to 4,000 feet (Doi 

 Chiang Dao), and not observed at all in many places that appear to 

 be eminently suitable. Gyldenstolpe, who took a number of specimens 

 at Khun Tan and Doi Pha Sakaeng, considered it "very abundant," 

 but, with the exception of Eisenhofer (who sent to Stockholm three 

 males from Khun Tan), no later collector has found it at either lo- 

 cality. The few examples observed by me were quietly climbing the 

 bamboo canes, feeding upon ants. 



An adult female had the irides red ; the orbital skin olive-gray above 

 the eye, plumbeous below ; the bill blue- white, plumbeous at the base 

 of the mandible; the feet and toes clear olive-green; the claws light 

 plumbeous. 



The adult male has the crown and short nuchal crest crimson, the 

 feathers with dull olive-golden bases, the sides of the head and the 

 longer, posterior feathers of the crest bright olive-golden; the re- 

 maining upperparts deep golden-olive, more or less suffused with crim- 

 son on the rump and upper tail coverts; the rectrices blackish; the 

 remiges blackish with round white spots on the inner web ; the under- 

 pays deep olive-green, paler on the throat. The adult female dif- 

 fers in having the crown and crest bright olive-golden, the longer, pos- 

 terior feathers of the latter sometimes more or less suffused with 

 crimson. 



BLYTHIPICUS PYRRHOTIS PYRRHOTIS (Hodgson) 



Indian Bay Woodpecker 



[Picus] Pyrrhotis Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 6, 1837, p. 108 (Nepal). 

 Pyrrhopicus pyrrhotis, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 



93 (Doi Pha Sakaeng) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 602 (Doi Pha Sakaeng). 

 BlytJiipicus pyrrhotis pyrrhotis, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, 



p. 157 (Doi Suthep) ; 1936, p. 96 (Doi Suthep). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 251 (Doi Chiang Dao).— Riley, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 226 (Doi Suthep, Doi Langka, Khun Tan, Huai Mae 



Lao). 



