200 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA, 
GECINUS STRIOLATUS (Blanford, Vol. III., p. 20; 
Legge, p. 194). 
The Lattle Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker. 
Description.—Male : Crown and crest crimson; general 
colour of upper parts olive tinged with green ; rump and upper 
tail coverts bright yellow, sometimes tinged with orange. 
Wing quills dusky brown with white bars on the inner webs ; 
the primaries have white spots on the outer webs, and the 
outer webs of the secondaries are washed with green. Tail 
blackish-brown with indistinct lighter bars towards the base. 
On the eyebrow a white stripe runs back to the nape, it is 
bordered above by a black stripe extending forward to the 
nostrils ; lores and cheeks dirty white, the cheeks with darker 
streaks ; ear coverts streaky gray. Chin and throat yellowish- 
white with darker centres to the feathers and black streaks 
along the jaw. Under parts greenish-white, each feather 
with a dark V-shaped band near the margin, and some feathers 
with dark shaft stripes. 
Female : Differs only in the crown and nape, which are 
black streaked with ashy-brown. 
Bill dusky horn colour, the greater part of the lower 
mandible yellow ; iris red with an outer ring of white; legs 
and feet dusky green. 
Length 11; wing 5:2; tail 3°75; tarsus 1°00; bill from 
gape 1°5. 
Distribution.—Rare in Ceylon, and apparently found only 
on the higher patanas of the Central Province and Uva. In 
India it occurs in forest country on the Malabar Coast and on 
the eastern side of the peninsula north of the Godaveri. It is 
also met with in the Eastern Himalayas, North Burma, and 
Siam. 
Habits, &c.—This species may be looked for on patanas 
which are thinly dotted with trees and in the intersecting 
ravines where wooded. The eggs do not appear to have been 
found in Ceylon as yet. In India the birds breed from March 
to May, making the usual nest hole in trees, and laying four 
to five glossy white eggs, averaging 1°05 by °8. 
