180 Mr, E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



examples from Sandakan, and the (late) Hon, Hugh Low, 

 as well as Mr. Treacher^ obtained it in Lumbidan. This 

 species has also been recorded from Sarawak by the Marquis 

 Doria, Dr. Beccari, and Mr. Everett, and Dr. Platen found 

 it at Jambusan, In the south of the island it has been 

 obtained at Banjermassing by Schierbrand, Mr, Davison, 

 in 'Stray Feathers'" (vi, p, 139, 1878), gives some very 

 interesting notes on the habits of the present species ; he 

 writes : — " This bird has some rather anomalous habits for a 

 Woodpecker, and it has^ besides, a very peculiar note, not in 

 the least resembling any of the varied notes of other Wood- 

 peckers, It inhabits the evergreen forests, occasionally 

 coming into tounyahs or clearings. It has a habit of work- 

 ing its way to the very top of some high dry tree, and re- 

 maining there for half an hour or more sometimes, uttering, 

 at short intervals, its peculiar note. In the dusk of the 

 evening, when other Woodpeckers cease to be heard, it gets 

 very noisy, and then may be heard calling in many direc- 

 tions, showing that it is not very uncommon ; it is, however, 

 more often heard than seen. It almost always, I may remark, 

 goes about singly, and I have never yet seen it descend to, 

 or feed upon, the ground, as Gecinus and Chrysophlegma so 

 constantly do.''^ 



14. Gecinus chlorigxVSter. 



Picus mentalis (uon Temm,), Jerd. Madr. Journ. 1840, 

 P- 214. (iw^ \^/s-} 



Picus chlorigaster, Jerd. Madr, Journ. 1844,<p. 138. 

 fChloropicusxanthoderus, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 402; 

 id. Monogr. Picid, ii. p, 114, pi. Ixxv, figs, 1, 2 (1862). 



Gecinus chlorigaster, Blyth, J, A, S. B. 1846, p. 16. 



Gecinus chlorophanes, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A.s. Soc. p. 59, 

 no. 267 (1849). 



Gecinus chlorophaus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849). 



Chrysophlegma chlorolophus (non Vieill.), Bp. Consp, Gen, 

 Ay, i, p. 128 (1850), 



Chrysophlegma xanthoderus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. 

 p. 10 (1854) ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 197 (1880) ; Salvin, Cat. 

 Strickl, Coll, p, 391, no. 1915 (1882), 



