103 Mr. C. Boden Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



Hargitt (' Ibis/ 1888^ p. 10) has pointed out that Burmese 

 specimens exceed in measurement those from Sikkim and 

 Cachar ; and I have seen a male from Sikkim with a wing 

 of 139 mm. only, against the 155 mm. which Siamese birds 

 are known to attain. 



My specimens, though not otherwise paler above than the 

 Sikkim example, have the wings more markedly bronze-olive 

 and the underparts greener and less olive ; the females 

 differ from the male in having the entire top of the head 

 grey striped with black, in lacking the black lores and 

 frontal feathers, and in having the black malar stripe much 

 reduced. 



Adjacent races are G. c. tancelo Gould of Formosa and 

 southern China, G. c. hainanus Grant of Hainan, and 

 G. c. robinsoni Grant of the Malay States. 



-f- 50. Gecimis erythropygius Elliot. 



Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Paris, Bull. 1865, i. p. 76, pi. iii. 



1 c?, 1 ? . Lat Bua Kao. 



Iris lemon-yellow ; eyelids black ; bill olive-yellow, tip 

 horny ; feet plumbeous. 



Bill from gape — male, 37 ; female, 35*5. 



Described from lower Cochin-China, this Woodpecker 

 seems to extend westward a little beyond Korat in eastern 

 Siam, where it has been met with by Gyldeustolpe as well. 

 In northern Siam it is replaced by G. e. niyrigenis Hume, 

 a very distinct subspecies and far handsomer bird. 



As this is a rare bird in collections, I have put together 

 the following measurements : — 



T.L. T. W. Ta. Culmen. 



Lower Cochin- j ^ _ 279 111 140 29-5 29-5* ^ic^e Elliot (type). 



China. J 



North Cambodia r d". 317 114 161 31 40 1 ^^ tt -ff 



and Laos. 1$. 292 109 159 29 34 j^^^e Hargitt. 



rj. 275 122 153 — 33 ^^e Gyldenstolpe. 



T, , o- \s. 322 105 151 27 31-Ot, 34-5n 

 Eastern Siam, '-' 



TT . ■( Q. 315 105 150 28-5 31-5 1, 35-51 mihi. 



near £orat. 1 * V 



c?- 294 77- 140 28 29-5 1, 34-0 Jf B. f. g. 35 (subadult). 



{^. 315 108 150 29 310t, 34-5|J „ 36. 

 * " Bill from front.'' t Exposed portion of culmen. | Culmen from base of frontal. 



