THE GOLDEN-BACKED WOODPECKER. 53 



streaked bird distinct from Mr. Elliot's. One of the points Mr. Hume 

 insists upon is that in his bird the eye-streak is white and in Mr. Elliot's 

 yellow; but Mr. Hume himself, when first describing G. nigrigenis, 

 distinctly says that the streak is pale yellow ; and all the birds I have seen 

 from Burmah have the streak yellow or yellowish. The lengthened tail- 

 coverts of the bird in Mr. Elliot's plate again is obviously a mistake of the 

 artist, for no Woodpecker as yet known has tail-coverts of such a length 

 as compared with the length of the tail. 



The lled-rumped Green Woodpecker occurs in the drier portions of the 

 Province from Tonghoo down to Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim; and 

 it does not appear to be found to the west of the Sittang river except at 

 Tonghoo, where Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay informs me he obtained it com- 

 monly all round that station for fifteen miles in every direction. 



This bird was first discovered in Cochin China, and Dr. Tiraud states 

 that it is common in that country. It is most probably found in Siam 

 also. 



This Woodpecker, according to Mr. Davison, frequents bamboo-jungle 

 and clearings, chiefly on the hills. Capt. Bingham found the nest and 

 eggs in Tenasserim in the Thoungyeen valley in March. The eggs, only 

 two in number, were laid in a hole of a Pynkado tree. 



Genus CHRYSOCOLAPTES, El. 



447. CHRYSOCOLAPTES STRICTUS. 

 THE GOLDEN-BACKED WOODPECKER. 



Picus str ictus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 170. Picus guttacristatus, 

 Tick. J. A. 8. B. ii. p. 578. Picus sultaneus, Hodys. J. A. S. B. vi. p. 105 ; 

 Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 79. Indopicus delesserti, Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 

 1849, p. 343; id. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 79, pi. Ixiv. lig. 4, 5. Indopicus sultaneus, 

 Malh. t. c. p. 77, pi. Ixiv. tig. 1-3. Indopicus strictus, Malh. t. c. p. 80, pi. Ixv. 

 fig. 1-5. Chrysocolaptes sultaneus, Jerd. B. 2nd. i. p. 281 ; Ball, S. F. ii. 

 p. 391 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 04 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 310 ; Inglis, S. F. v. p. JO ; 

 Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 584 j Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 133; Hume, S. F. 

 viii. p. 87. Chrysocolaptes strictus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 48 ; Hume, S. F. 

 viii. p. 154; Butler, S. F. ix. p. 238. Chrysocolaptes delesserti, Hume, 

 Nests and Eyys, p. 123 ; Bourdillon, ti. F. iv. p. 389 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 87. 

 Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus, Bl. $ Wold. B. Burm. p. 75. 



Description. Male. Feathers at the base of the upper mandible fulvous- 



