Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 11 



bability is that one of liis specimens is true G. striolatus, 

 and the young bird in the British Museum may have been 

 wrongly identified. McClelland obtained the present species 

 in Assam, and in N.E. Cachar Mr. Inglis says it is common. 

 In Native Burmah it is probably to be found, but I have not 

 seen any specimens from thence. The Hume Collection 

 includes specimens from the Tipperah Hills. In Pegu, Mr. 

 Eugene Gates writes that it is one of the commonest Wood- 

 peckers, and found all over the province. Messrs. Hume 

 and Davison, in their " Birds of Tenasserim " (Str. F. 1878, 

 vi. p. 137), inform us that G. occipitalis is confined to the 

 northern and central portions of that province ; and Mr. 

 Davison, in his note, states, " This species is nowhere com- 

 mon, 1 have not observed it anywhere south of Tavoy. It is 

 most frequently seen in the immediate vicinity of Pahpoon, 

 but does not ascend the hills, to the north of that place, for 

 any distance. It is a bird of the thin forests, bamboo jungles, 

 and clearings.^' In the appendix to the same paper a speci- 

 men is recorded from Tavoy. Capt Bingham found this 

 species throughout the Thoungyeen valley ; he states that it 

 breeds alike in the north and in the south-west in April. 

 The British Museum collection contains a male specimen of 

 a Gecinus obtained at Pitchaburree, Siam, August 1868, by 

 M. Pierre, which I have no doubt is G. occijntalis. 



2. Gecinus guerini. 



Chloropicos guerini, Malh. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1819, 

 p. 539. 



Gecinus guerini, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 127 (1850); id. 

 Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854) ; Reichenb. Handb. 

 Scans. Picinse, p. 349, no. 796, pi. dcxxii. figs. 4144, 4145 

 (1854) ; Horsf. & Moore. Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 659, 

 no. 958 (1856-58) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 96 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, 

 pp. 268 & 333; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 73 (1868); 

 id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 191, no. 8676 (1870) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 

 1871, p. 392 ; David & Oust. Gis. Chine, p. 52 (1877) ; 

 H. H. Slater, Ibis, 1882, p. 435 ; Seebohm, op. cit. 1884, p. 266. 



