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being buffy white with a yellowish tinge, and by the whole of the sides of 

 the neck, fore neck and chest being uniform pure ochraceous yellow without 

 the slightest trace of any striations. The sides of the head are silvery 

 white with black shaft-marks, and not greyish brown as in G. viridanus. 

 A specimen collected in Western Siam by Herr Carl Bock is similar to the 

 Javan bird. Out of a numerous series of Burmese birds in Mr. Hargitt's 

 museum, many of them collected by myself, not one shows any approach 

 to the Javan form. 



Gecinus weberi, recently described by Herr A. Miiller from the island of 

 Salanga (Orn. Ins. Salanga, p. 69, 1882), judging from examples in 

 Mr. Hargitt's museum, does not appear to be any thing but an intensely 

 green form of G. viridanus. 



The Striated Green Woodpecker is generally distributed over the whole 

 of British Burmah. Mr. Blyth records it from all three Divisions. I 

 procured it on the Arrakan hills, and I have met with it in every part of 

 Pegu that I have visited, and found it abundant in most places suited to 

 Woodpeckers. Mr. Davison states that it is extremely common throughout 

 Tenasserim, except above the elevation of 3500 feet ; and Capt. Bingham 

 says that it is one of the commonest Woodpeckers in the Thoungyeen 

 valley. 



To the east it occurs in Siam, and, according to Dr. Tiraud, it is common 

 in Cochin China ; it extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in 

 Sumatra and Java. It is also said to occur in Borneo. 



This species appears to prefer the drier forests ; but it may be met with 

 in almost all descriptions of jungle, provided there are trees. 



444. GECINUS STRIOLATUS. 

 BLYTH'S STRIATED GREEN WOODPECKER. 



Picus striolatus, Bl J. A. S. B. xii. p. 1000 ; Sundev. Consp. Ac. Pic. p. GO. Chlo- 

 ropicus striolatus, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 134, pi. Ixxvii. fig. 1-3. Gecinus 

 striolatus, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 287 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 125 ; Hume, S. F. 

 ii\. p. 68 ; Jft. fy Wald. B. Burm. p. 76 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 585 ; Lcyyc, 

 Birds Ceylon, p. 194; Hume 8c Dav. S. F. vi. p. 136; Cripps, S. F. vii. p. I'm' ; 

 Scully, S. F. viii. p. 247 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 87. 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown, nape and elongated feathers of the 

 occiput scarlet ; back, sides of the neck, wing-coverts, scapulars and ter- 

 tiaries green ; rump and upper tail- coverts golden yellow ; tail blackish, 

 the central pair of feathers barred with white on the basal half, the others 

 obsolete!} barred near the base only ; winglet, primary-coverts and pri- 



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