Mr. E. Hargitt o)i the Genus Geciniis. 189 



there, and not very common anywhere." Mr. Davison says 

 " it occurs alike in moderately thin and dense forests, and is 

 found right up to the top of Mooleyit." Mr. Hume's col- 

 lection contains specimens from the following localities — 

 '^Pine forests, Sahveen; Kollidoo; Pahpoon; Wimpong; 

 Myawadee; Kaukaryit ; Houngthraw River; Mooleyit; and 

 the Thounghyeen River." Captain Bingham observes that 

 in the Thounghyeen Valley tliis species is even more abun- 

 dant than C.flavinucha. It is beyond doubt that the present 

 species is also found in the Malayan peninsula, as Mr. L. 

 Wray has recently obtained a male specimen on the moun- 

 tains near Perak, and he tells us that it is the only Wood- 

 pecker seen by him in the higher part of the hills [cf. Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1887, p. 443). This is the only Malayan example 

 of G. chlorolophus that I have ever met with. 



16. Gecinus erythropygius. 



Gecinus erythropygius, Elliot, N. Arch, du Mus. Bull. i. 

 p. 1Q>, pi. iii. (1865) ; Wardl. Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 212, 

 pi. XXXV. (c? ? ) ; Wald. Ibis, 1875, pp. 148 and 463 ; Tiraut, 

 Ois. Basse-Cochinchine, p. 89 (1879) ; Gates, Str. F. x. 

 p. 191 (1882) ; id. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 52 (1883). 



Gecinus nigrigenis, Hume, Proc. A. S. B. 1874, p. 106; 

 id. Str. F. 1874, pp. 444 and 471 ; id. & Davison, op. cit. vi. 

 p. 136 (1878) ; Bingham, op. cit. 1880, p. 163. 



Picus nigrogenis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 170 (1876). 



Adult male. Above, including wing-coverts, uniform vivid 

 green ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; quills black, 

 the primaries barred with white on the outer webs, the inner 

 having deep notches or broad bars of the same, but not ex- 

 tending to the shaft ; outer webs of the secondaries margined 

 with, or entirely green, this colour spreading on to the tips 

 of some of the inner webs, which have large spots of white ; 

 shafts black; rump bright scarlet; upper tail-coverts dull 

 green ; tail and shafts uniform black, except a few minute 

 buffy-white spots on the outer web of the penultimate feather ; 

 dwarf feather dusky black, the apical portion greenish ; 

 crown bright scarlet ; nasal plumes and the rest of the head 



