44?6 PICID/E. 



same but lemon-yellow on the basal half ; irides bright red ; legs dull greenish ; 

 eyelids lavender." (Oaf.es.) 



Length. IO'5 inches; tail 4 ; wing 5-4; tarsus 0*85 ; bill from gape T2. 



Zfa. The Himalayas from Assam to Nepaul, also Cachar, the hill tracts 

 of Eastern Bengal, Arracan, Pegu and Tenasserim ; rare in Lower Bengal. 

 Habits like the last. 



1055. Chrysophlegma chlorigaster, Jerd., 2nd Suppi. Cat. 



p. 2 1 1 ; Hume, Sir. F. vii. p. 5 17. Chrysophlegma chlorophanes, Jerd., B. Ind. 

 i. p. 290. Picus chlorophanes, Vieill., Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 79. 

 The SOUTHERN YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Whole head and cheek stripe red ; crest red, the feathers terminating with 

 yellow ; back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts bright green ; ear coverts 

 brownish green ; wings greenish, tinged with orange, the outer webs of the 

 quills orange red, the inner webs dusky and with white spots ; tail black ; 

 under surface of the body dull green ; lower abdomen barred and spotted 

 with white. Bill slaty green ; under mandible yellow ; legs dull green ; irides 

 reddish brown. 



Length -9 to 97 inches ; tail 3-9 to 4 ; wing 47 to 4*8 ; bill at front 0*9. 



Hab. South India, in Malabar, Travancore, and Ceylon. Habits same as 

 the last. Nothing is known of its nidification. 



Gen. GecinilS. Boie. 



Bill slightly widened in its whole length, compressed at the tip; upper man- 

 dible with one or more lateral ridges near the culmen, which is slightly arched ; 

 anterior and versatile toes nearly equal ; head crested; tail long, cuneate. 



1058- GecinUS SquamattlS (Vigors), Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 286; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 124. Picus squamatus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 

 1831, p. ; Gould, Cent. Him. B. pi. 48. Picus dimidiatus, apud. Gray and 

 Hardw., 111. Ind. Orn. i. pi. 29, fig. i. The SCALY-BELLIED GREEN WOOD- 

 PECKER. 



Head with the crest and hind neck dull scarlet ; superciliary stripe extend- 

 ing as far as the nape whitish ; a second one from across the forehead 

 immediately above the supercilium black ; ear-coverts dusky green ; cheek 

 stripe blackish, bordered by a pale line ; back, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts green, the two latter tinged with yellowish; wings and tail dusky 

 black ; primaries with their outer webs spotted with white ; secondaries and 

 tertiaries suffused with greenish on their outer margins and barred paler ; tail 

 barred and spotted with white, the middle feathers tinged greenish ; chin and 

 throat albescent ashy ; beneath dusky albescent greenish, the feathers of the 

 abdomen edged with black. The female has not the scarlet head, which is 

 replaced by black. Bill dusky above at base, yellowish terminally; legs 

 greenish slaty. 



