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five inches and the minute Piculets of three-and-a-half inches in 

 length. 



Burmese name for all Woodpeckers — Thit-kouk. 



Kachin name for all Woodpeckers — Du-wan, 



BLAGKNAPED GREEN WOODPECKER 



Is distributed over the whole country in weil-wooded localities, 

 and is to be found round Rangoon. Male — Upper plumage green 

 tinged with yellow on the rump, forehead and crown crimson, back of 

 the head, crest, and a cheek stripe black, chin and throat white^ breast 

 green. Length about twelve-and-a-half inches. Female — Wants the 

 read on the head, the feathers being black with grey edges, giving 

 it a striped appearance. 



(No. 950. Gecinus occipitalis,) 



SPOTTED BREASTED PIED WOODPECKER. 



One of the numerous pied woodpeckers, fairly common in the dry 

 zone. 1 have also heard its notes in the Ransfoon Cantonments. 

 Male — Crown crimson, a cheek stripe and back ot head black, upper 

 plumage barred black and white, tail barred black and yellowish- 

 white, chin and throat white, breast brownish and distinctly spotted. 

 Female — Wants the crimson on the head. Length about seven 

 inches. 



(No. 970. Dendrocopus pectoralis.) 



THE RUFOUS WOODPECKER. 



A bird of peculiar habits, living entirely on ants, and has the pecu- 

 liar musky smell common to them. The bird even makes use of the 

 ants for nesting purposes, excavating holes in the large round ants' 

 nests so often found in trees. I have often seen these ants' nests 

 with round holes bored in them, and presume them to be the nests of 

 this bird, but as I have always been shooting at the time, have not 

 been able to tackle one of them. The bird is said to lay its eggs in 

 a chamber hollowed out in the interior, leaving the eggs to be hatch- 

 ed by the warmth of the ants, the young, when hatched, feeding them- 

 selves on their unwitting hosts, their peculiar smell no doubt protect- 

 ing them. Male — Whole plumage chestnut barred more or less with 

 black, the feathers below the eye tipped with crimson. Length about 

 ten inches. Female — Wants the crimson. 



(No. 983. Micropterus phaeoceps.) 



