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that it also occurs in Siam. Jerdon (Ibis, 1872, p. 9) writes, 

 " This Woodpecker is very common in the sub- Himalayan 

 region, from Kumaon to Kashmir, and also in all the low 

 jungles of the north-west provinces and the Punjab/^ In 

 the British Museum there are numerous examples collected 

 by Hodgson in Nepal. Dr. Scully, in his Contributions 

 to the Ornithology of that country (Str. F. 1879, p. 248), 

 observes that he found it very common in the siil forest 

 from Bichiakoh to Semrabasa, in December. Mr. Cripps in- 

 cludes this species in his ' List of the Birds of Furreedpore, 

 Eastern Bengal^; and, according to Mr. Ball, it is found in 

 the hilly region which extends from the Rajmehal Hills to 

 the Godaveri Valley. Colonel Butler, in his ' Catalogue of 

 the Birds of Mount Aboo,' &c., 1879, p. 19, says it is not 

 very common on Mount Aboo; and the same author (Str. P. 

 1875, p. 458) states that it is not uncommon in the jungles 

 at the foot of the Aravalli range, to which Mr. Hume appends 

 the following note: — '^but occurs nowhere else, as far as we 

 know, throughout the whole region.^^ Messrs. Davidson and 

 Wenden, in their '' Avifauna o£ the Deccan^^ (Str. F. vii. 

 p. 78, 1878), introduce the following note: — ''A Green 

 Woodpecker, probably this one {G.striolatun), observed nestr 

 the top of the Bhore Ghat in September, not thoroughly 

 identified." Colonel Butler, in his ' Catalogue of the Birds 

 of the Southern Portion of the Bombay Presidency,^ as well 

 as in ' Stray Feathers,' 1880, p. 386, adds the following in- 

 formation regarding the species : — " Bare, obtained by Mr. 

 Laird in the jungles west of Belgaum, and is probably the 

 bird referred to by Mr. Davidson as having been observed 

 on the Bhore Ghat, Kolaba district, in which case it pro- 

 bably occurs sparingly along the whole of the Saliyadri 

 range.'^ Mr. Ball writes, " The small Green Woodpecker is 

 rather rare in Chota Nagpur, and, so far as my collections 

 go, confined to the western parts. In the Satpura hills it 

 was, I think, more abundant." In his ' Birds of India,' 

 Jerdon states, " I have seen it in Malabar, in low jungles 

 close to the sea-coast, in bushy ground on the Neilgherries 

 tolerably abundant, as also on the Eastern Ghats." Mr. W. 



