GECINUS. 



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B 



Midler, S. F. ix, p. 386 ; Gates, S. F. x, p. 191 ; id. B. B. ii, 

 ^ . 49; Davison, S. F. x, p. 3o5 ; 2'erry, ib. p. 471 ; Barnes, Birds 

 Bom. p. 116; Hnme, S. F. xi, p. G'l ; Harcjitt, Ibis, 1888, p. 171 ; 

 id. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 50 ; Oates in Hume's N. &• E. 2nd ed. ii, 

 p. 208. 



The Small Green ]\'oodpecker, Jerdou. 



Coloration. Male. Crown and occipital crest crimson, posterior 

 <;rest-feathers sometimes orange ; mantle olivaceous green ; rump 

 bright gamboge-yellow or sometimes orange ; a greyish-white 

 superciliary stripe bordered with black above, beginning'above the 

 .eye and extending back to the nape, the black extends forward 

 to the base of the forehead and to the brownish-black plumes over 



Fig. 10. — Head of ''/. sfnolaftts. 



the nostrils ; lores and a stripe under the eye and ear-coverts 

 brownish white ; ear-coverts grey, faintly streaked with whitish ; 

 malar band white, streaked with black ; wing-feathers as in G. 

 squamatus brownish black with white spots ; tail-feathers brownish 

 black, imperfectly barred towards the base with light brown, 

 outermost pair but one barred throughout ; lower parts greenish 

 white, breast greener and with a yellowish tinge ; chin and throat 

 striped ; feathers of remainder of lower parts with intramarginal 

 bands and occasional shaft-stripes of olive or brown. 



Female. Tlie crown and occiput black, the sides of the crown- 

 feathers brownish ashy. Otherwise like the male. 



Iris red, surrounded by white ; eyelids plumbeous ; upper man- 

 dible and tip of lower horn-colour, remainder of lower mandible 

 yellow; legs olive-green (Oates). 



Length 11-5 ; tail 3"S ; wing 5-2 : tarsus 1 ; bill from gape 1*4. 



Distrilmtion. The I'ange of this Woodpecker is somewhat peculiar. 

 It is found throughout the Himalayas as far west as Mussooree, 

 and is generally distributed throughout the countries south of the 

 Eastern Himalayas as far south as the Irrawaddy delta and 

 Toungngoo. Anderson obtained it at Momein. There is also in 

 the British Museum a skin from Siam. It also occurs, though 

 sparingly, throughout the forest country between the Ganges and 

 Oodcivari, east of long. 80"^ East, and in the forests of Malabar and of 



