192 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Germs Gecinus. 



countries is not known. Major Wardlaw Ramsay found 

 it at the foot of the Karen Hills to 6000 feet elevation^ and 

 at Tonghoo. Mr. Eugene Gates also procured it at Tonghoo. 

 In Tenasserim, according to Messrs. Hume and Davison 

 (Str. F. vi. p. 136, 1878), this species is "confined to the 

 drier and more thinly wooded hills of the outer Tenasserim 

 range in its northern and central portions, and there not 

 rare,^^ to which Mr. Davison adds the following note : — " I 

 only obtained this species on the hills to the north of Pahpoon, 

 and again all about Myawadee and the country between this 

 and Mooleyit. It is not a bird of the dense forests, and 

 does not ascend Mooleyit. It does not, that I am aware, 

 extend to the low flat country anywhere, nor do I know of 

 its occurring anywhere south of Paraduba. I did not find 

 it anywhere about Meetan.^' 



Capt. Bingham informs us that " in all the Thouugyeen 

 valley it is fairly common but local. In the laterite belt, 

 covered with Eng {D'lpterocaiyus) forest, that runs parallel 

 to the Thovingyeen river, north of Meeawuddy, I found it 

 plentiful ; its peculiar cry, and the rich contrast of the jet- 

 black cheeks with the yellow of the chin and throat, once 

 heard and seen, are not easily forgotten/' I have in my 

 collection a specimen obtained by Capt. Bingham in the 

 Thoungyeen Valley, on the Siamese side of the river, so 

 that it may reasonably be assumed that the species will 

 range further into the latter country. 



Dr. Tiraut (Gis. Basse-Cochinchiue, p. 89 (1879), states 

 that he obtained this species in Lower Cochin China, and it 

 may be interesting to give his notes on it : — " I have killed 

 at Srok-tranh two males of this splendid Green Woodpecker, 

 which is distinguished from all the Gecini by its vermilion- 

 red rump ; also a female at Suoc nuoc. Gn both these 

 occasions I found this bird inhabiting the jungles of large 

 thorny bamboos, and my personal observation is in harmony 

 with that of Davison, in Tenasserim, regarding the G. nigrigenis 

 of Hume, which appears to be the same bird. The type 

 specimen of Elliot's description came from. Cochin China, 

 whence it had been sent by the Commandant Bousigon, and 



