. GECININZ. 117 
Above green, the rump and upper tail-coverts tinged with 
yellowish ; forehead and lores whitish, mixed with black ; a small 
white eye-brow, with a black line above it, which is lost on the hind- 
head; ear-coverts mixed black and white ; cheek-stripe inconspi- 
cuous, with a white line above it; entire under parts whitish, 
streaked with dusky-green, more or less dark on the breast, and 
always greenish-black on the belly; on the throat and foreneck 
the feathers have each a mesial dusky-black line, widening on the 
breast, and dividing and becoming scale-like, lower on the abdo- 
men; caudal bars almost obsolete, except on the middle pair, and 
on the exterior web of the outermost pair in some specimens ; 
head crimson in the male, black in the female. 
The Small Green Woodpecker has been observed in the forests 
west of Belgaum, and is not uncommon in the jungles at the 
foot of the Aravalli Range; it has not been recorded from any 
other part of the district. 
Genus, Chrysophlegma, Gould. 
Bill similar to that of the last, wider at the base and 
more compressed at the tip, slightly more curved, and shorter, 
with the lateral ridge nearly obsolete, only existing close to 
the base of the bill; the culmen blunt; tail long, cuneate ; feet 
short ; the claws very strongly curved. 
Chrysophlegma chlorigaster, Jerdon. 
175.—Chrysophlegma chlorophanes, Vieill—Jerdon’s Birds of 
India, Vol. I. p. 290; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol, IX, 
p. 386. 
THE SOUTHERN YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER, 
Length, 9; wing, 4°75; tail, 3-9; bill at front, 0-9. 
Bill slaty-greenish, yellow beneath ; irides reddish-brown ; legs 
dull green. 
Male with the whole head and cheek-stripe red, a small 
occipital crest of the same color, shortly terminated by bright 
yellow; plumage above bright green; ear-feathers and beneath 
dull sap or brownish-green ; the feathers of the lower abdomen 
banded and spotted with white; wings greenish with an orange 
tinge, and the outer web of most of the quill feathers deep 
rears ; the inner webs dusky with white spots ; tail unspotted, 
ack, 
Has several times been obtained in the forests west of Belgaum, 
but hitherto has not been recorded from any other portion of 
the district. 
Genus Micropternus, Blyth. 
Bill broad at base ; culmen arched, the sides slightly rounded ; 
lateral ridge wanting; wing rather short ; tail short and broad ; 
feet small ; versatile and anterior toes above equal; inner hind- 
