24 PICIDJE. 



pt. 2, p. 70 : Hump, S. F. iii, p. 71 ; v, p. 26 ; xi, p. 62 ; id. Cat. 

 no. 174 ; Blyth ^- Wald. Birds Burm. p. 76 ; Hume ^ liav. S. F. 

 vi, p. 138; Ball, 8. F. vii, p. 206; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 249; 

 Bingham, S. F. ix, p. 164 ; Gates, B. B. ii,'p. 45 ; C. H. T. Mar- 

 shall, Ibis, 1884, p. 410 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 2, iv, 

 p. o78 ; Y, p. 560 ; vii, p. 379. 

 Geciuus chlorolophu,s, Hurgitt, Ibis, 1888, p. 184 ; id. Cat. B. M. 

 xviii, p. 59 ; Oates in Hume's JV. ^- F. ii, p. 300. 



The Lesser Yelloic-naped Woodpecker, Jerdon. 



Coloration. Male. Xasal plumes and a line above lores black ; 

 forehead, a stripe from the forehead on each side of the crown to 

 the nape, and the tips of the feathers forming a malar stripe on 

 each side of the lower mandible crimson ; crown of head olive- 

 green, some of the occipital feathers occasionally tipped crimson ; 

 nuchal crest of loose-textured feathers ending in filaments golden 

 to orange-yellow ; back, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 bright yellowish gi'een ; lores aud a band beneath the eye and 

 ear-coverts, also a narrow line over the eye, whitish ; ear-coverts 

 pale olive ; quills dark brown, the inner ^^'ebs, except near the 

 tips, with squarish white spots ; outer webs of primaries near 

 their base, and outer webs of secondaries throughout red bordered 

 with green ; a few small white spots (sometimes wanting) on 

 outer webs of primaries ; tail black, the median feathers with 

 bronzy-green edges near the base ; lower parts olive ; chin, throat, 

 abdomen, under wing-coverrs, and lower tail-coverts barred with 

 white or greenish white. 



Female. No crimson on the forehead, sides of head above the 

 eye, nor on malar stripe, but there is a band on each side of the 

 occiput ; otherwise the plumage resembles that of the male. The 

 young are duller, the lo\^er parts dusky, not green, aud barred or 

 spotted throughout. 



Bill yello\^'ish-green horny, culmen and tip dark plumbeous ; 

 irides carmine-red ; orbital skin bluish plumbeous ; tarsi dingv 

 green ; claws pale horny (Scully). 



Length 10-5 ; tail 4 ; wing 5'4 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from gape 1-25. 



Distribution. The lower Himalayas up to about 10,000 feet, as far 

 wesr as Cliamba, also Assam, Cachar, Tipperah, Mauipur, Arrakan, 

 Burma generally, and Tenasserim. A specimen referred to this 

 species has been obtained from Perak. This Woodpecker has been 

 reported from Orissa, but its occurrence in the Indian Peninsula 

 must be regarded as doubtful. 



Habits., djT. Like other members of the genus, this green Wood- 

 pecker sometimes feeds on the ground. In Burma it is found 

 both in thick forests and open tree-jungle. The nest has been taken 

 in Sikkim in April, and contained three eggs, one measuring 1*14 

 by '72. The nest-hole was 14 feet from the ground in the stem 

 of a dry tree, the eggs white and glossy. 



