448 PICIDM. 



Forehead and occiput scarlet ; top of the head, a broad occipital stripe con- 

 tinued to the nape, and another over the eyes, above the lores, arid a broad 

 mandibular stripe black; lores, sides of the head and ear coverts greyish , 

 hind neck, back, and scapulars green ; rump and upper tail coverts brownish, 

 the feathers edged with bright yellow j tail brown, the four middle feathers 

 (outer webs) edged with greenish and obsoletely barred ; primaries and their 

 coverts brown, spotted with white, the primaries barred on the basal half of 

 their inner webs ; secondaries fulvous yellow on the outer webs and brown, 

 barred with white on the inner ; chin and upper part of throat grey ; rest of 

 lower plumage green, tinged with fulvous on the vent and under tail coverts ; 

 under wing coverts white, barred with brown. The female has the head black. 

 Bill blackish brown; irides dull red; legs dull green. 



Length. 13 inches; tail 4-5 ; wing 5-7 ; tarsus i'i ; bill from gape 1-8. 



Hal. Throughout the whole extent of the Himalayas, extending through 

 Assam and Tipperah into Burmah. Common throughout Sikkim, hill ranges 

 of Eastern Bengal and Afghanistan. In Burmah it has been found in all parts 

 of the Province, except the southern half of Tenasserim. Breeds throughout 

 the lower ranges of the Himalayas from Bhootan to Afghanistan from April to 

 the middle of June, laying 5 6 eggs, pure white, and moderately glossy. 



1059. Gecinus viridanus (Btyth\ Wald., P. z. S. 1866, p. 539; 



Blyth and Wald., B. Sunn. p. 76; dates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 48. 

 Picus viridanus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. lOOO. Chloropicus dimidiatus 

 (Tern.), Maih., Mon.> Pic. ii. p 132, pi. Ixxvi., figs. 46 (part). Gccinus 

 vittatus (Vt'eill.), Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 51 (part); Hume, Sir. F. Hi. p. 68; 

 Armstrong, Sir. F.iv.p. 310; Hume and Dav., Sir. F, vi. p. 136; Hume, 

 Sir. F. viii. p. 87 ; Bingham, Sir. F. ix. p. 163. The STRIATED GREEN 

 WOODPECKER. 



Top of head and occipital crest scarlet ; lores, ear coverts, and feathers under 

 the eye greyish-brown; back, scapulars and tertiaries, also the upper wing coverts, 

 green ; rump and upper tail coverts yellowish-green ; tail black, barred on 

 the basal half with white ; primaries and their coverts black, the primaries 

 spotted with white on both webs; secondaries black, barred faintly with white 

 on the outer webs and distinctly so on the inner, the margins of which are 

 broadly green ; a broad moustacial streak from the base of each side of the 

 lower mandible enveloping the cheeks and continued on the sides of the throat 

 black, the feathers margined and edged with white ; chin, throat, breast, sides 

 of the neck and breast fulvescent greenish, the latter shaded darker ; rest of 

 under surface of the body greenish white, striated with brown ; under coverts 

 whitish, barred with greenish brown. The female has the scarlet head 

 of the male replaced by black. Bill with the upper mandible and terminal 

 half of lower dark brown ; the basal half of the latter yellow ; irides red ; 

 legs and feet dusky green. 



