414 Capt. Beavan on various Indian Birds. 



170. Gecinus SQUAMATUS. Scaly-bclliecl Green Woodpecker. 



This species was abundant about Simla in April 1866, and the 

 plaintive call " tee-ah-tee " of the male was repeatedly heard 

 throughout the pine-woods. I procured specimens of both sexes, 

 of which I subjoin the dimensions : — 



Tarsus. Bill from front. Extent. 

 1-125 1-75 17-5 



1-0G25 1-75 18-5 



The irides in both sexes are the same — a circle of dark pink- 

 ish-red round the black pupil, surrounded by a second ring of 

 light pink. The bill has the upper mandible horn-coloured at 

 the base, the tip and the whole of the lower mandible being of 

 a brightish yellow. I did not observe the black line on each 

 side of the chin and throat mentioned by Dr. Jerdon ; the cheek- 

 stripe in the male was of a mixed black and white ; the upper 

 tail-coverts in the same bird are of bright glistening greenish- 

 yellow, and the end of the crest, where it meets the green of 

 the neck, is slightly tipped with yellow. 



On the 10th May I found the nest of this species with young 

 ones; it was a round hole in the trunk of the common Simla 

 cedar [Cedrus deodara), apparently dug out by the bird itself, 

 and too small to admit even the small hand of a native boy, so 

 that I was unable to get a sight of the young. 



Gecinus viridanus, Blyth, was procured by me at the foot of 

 Zwagaben, a limestone hill, described by me in a letter to the 

 Zoological Society (P. Z. S. 1866, p. 2). Length 12-5, wing 

 5*5, tail 4'75, tarsus 1, bill from front V'o, extent 16 in. Irides 

 dark purple, bill dark horn-colour above, greenish-yellow beneath, 

 excepting the tip, which is (as usual in this genus) darker ; the 

 legs and claws are of a dull gi'eeuish-yellow colour {cf. P. Z. S. 

 1866, pp. 537-556). 



173. Chrysophlegma flavinucha. Large Ycllow-naped 

 Woodpecker. 



The late Dr. Scott noted this species from Nepaul, and ap- 

 pears to have received it from his great friend Dr. Wright, who 

 used to collect birds for him there — to the best of my knowledge, 

 in the ncia;hbourliood of Katmandhu. 



