181 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



Davidson at Cheerud, Sliada, Kandeish. Captain Butler 

 says it is not uncommon in the forests south-west of Belgaura. 

 According to Dr. Jerdon^ '' It is found in the forests of 

 Malabar, more especially far south. It frequents thick forest 

 jungle." Mr. Davison (Str. F. x. p. 355, 1883) states :— 

 '' This species does not ascend the plateau of the Nilghiris, 

 but occurs on the slopes as far up as 5000 feet. It is also 

 spread through the Wynaad and Mysore, l)ut is nowhere 

 very common. It occasionally, like the Gecini, descends to 

 the ground." The Rev. S. B. Fairbank obtained it near 

 Periur, on the Palaui Hills, and it has been observed by Mr. 

 Bourdillon on the hills of Travancore. In Ceylon (according 

 to Col. Legge) " the Ground Woodpecker is found through- 

 out most of the low country, except the northern parts, 

 where, as far as I am able to ascertain from report and my 

 own observation, it has not yet been detected. As it is, 

 however, nowhere very abundant, and is of a retiring nature, 

 it may have been passed over in the north of the Vanni." 

 It is remai'kable that this species has not been observed in 

 the northern part of the island, frequented by Chrysocolaptes 

 stricMcmdi, a region apparently suited to Woodpeckers, and 

 nearest to the peninsula of India, a habitat of the species. 

 It is very probable, as Col. Legge suggests, that this bird 

 has been overlooked in the north, and will eventually be 

 found to have a more extended range. 



15. Gecinus chlorolophus. 



Picus chlorolophus, Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 78 

 (1818); Bonn. & A'ieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1309 (1823); 

 Sundev. Consp. A v. Picin. p. 58 (1866) ; Giebel, Thes. Oru. 

 iii. p. 149 (1876). 



Yelhiv-nechedWoodjJecker, Lath. Hist. B. iii. p. 365 (1822). 



Picus chlorolophos, Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 69 (1827). 



Picus chloropus, Drap. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 500 

 (1828). 



Picus nepalensis, Gray, Hardw. 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. xxxi. 

 fig. 1 (1830-32) ; McClell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 165; Blyth, J. 

 A. S. B. xii. p. 1003 (1843) ; id. op. cit. xiv. p. 191 (1845). 



