48 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



The Malaccan Yellow-naped Woodpecker occurs in the south of Tenas- 

 serim from Malewoon up to Mergui, and also in the island of Salanga. 



It extends down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 



According to Mr. Davison, this species is found in evergreen forests, but 

 is also partial to mangrove-swamps. 



Genus GECINTJS, Eoie. 



443. GECINUS VIRIDANUS. 



THE STRIATED GREEN WOODPECKER. 



Picus viridanus, SI. J. A. 8. B. xii. p. 1000. Chloropicus dimidiatus, Temm,, 

 Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 132, pi. Ixxvi. fig. 4-6 (part.). Gecinus viridanus, 

 Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 539 ; Bl 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 76. Gecinus vittatus 

 (V.\ Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 51 (part.); Hume, S. F. iii. p. 68; Armstrong, S. F. 

 iv. p. 310 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 136 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 87 ; Bingham, 

 S. F. ix. p. 163. 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown, nape and lengthened occipital 

 feathers scarlet; back, scapulars and tertiaries green; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts yellowish green; tail black, barred with white on the basal 

 half; upper wing-coverts green, the base of all the feathers barred with 

 white, but the bars invisible unless the feathers be lifted ; bastard wing, 

 primary-coverts and primaries black, with a series of white spots on both 

 webs ; secondaries black, very broadly edged with green on the outer 

 webs ; the outer webs faintly barred, the inner webs with distinct white 

 bars ; lores, the ear- coverts and the feathers under the eye greyish brown ; 

 feathers immediately above the eye white ; a broad stripe, commencing at 

 the base of the lower mandible, covering the cheeks and running down 

 each side of the throat, black, the feathers margined with white ; chin, 

 throat, breast and sides of the neck sordid fulvous -green, the breast more 

 or less striated with a darker shade of the same ; remainder of lower 

 plumage greenish white, closely striated with brown ; under wing-coverts 

 whitish, barred with greenish brown. 



The female has the red on the head replaced by black. 



The whole upper mandible and the anterior portion of the lower dark 

 brown ; remainder of the lower mandible yellow ; eyelids slate- colour ; 

 iris red ; legs and feet dusky green ; claws horny brown. 



Length 13 inches, tail 5, wing 5 '4, tarsus I'l, bill from gape 1-6. The 

 female is of about the same size as the male. 



The Javan bird (G. vittatus, Vieill.) appears to me to be quite distinct 

 from the Burmese species. It is characterized by the chin and throat 



