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c'. Lower parts with transverse bars or spots ; 



;t yellow nuchal crest. 

 c". Outer surface of wing green, tinged 

 with red. 

 c 3 . Whole occiput never crimson ; wing 



about 5 - 4. 

 a*. Forehead, each edge of crown and 



of occiput and malar stripe crimson. G. chlorolophus c? , p. 23. 

 b l . Sides of occiput only crimson . . G. chlorolophus $,p. 23. 

 f 3 . Whole occiput crimson ; wing about 



4-6. 

 c 4 . Crown and malar stripe crimson. G. chlorogaster $ , p. 25. 



d*. Only occiput crimson G. chlorogaster $ , p. 25. 



d" . Outer surface of wing red G. puniceus, p. 26. 



b. Rump bright red G. nigrigenis, p. 26. 



946. Gecinus squamatus. The West-Himalayan Scaly-bellied 



Green Woodpecker. 

 Picus pquamatus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 8 ; Blyth,J. A. S. B. xii, 



p. 998. 



Gecinus squamatus, Blyth, Cat. p. 57 ; Horsf. Sr M. Cat. p. 659 ; 

 Jcrdon, B. I. i, p. 286 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 9 ; Tytler, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 202 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 20 ; Beavan, Ibis, 

 1869, p. 414 ; Cock $ Marsh. S. F. i, p. 350 ; Hume. Cat. no 170 ; 

 Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 49 ; Sadly, Ibis, 1881, p. 430 ; Hargitt, 

 Ibis, 1888, p. 153 ; id Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 43 ; Oates in Humes 

 N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 297 ; Skarpe, Yarkand Miss., Aves, p. 108. 

 The Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker, Jerdon ; Tuktola, Chamba. 



Coloration. Male. Crown and occipital crest crimson ; mantle, 

 including sides of neck, back, scapulars, and secondary wing-coverts, 

 green, rump aud upper tail-coverts strongly tinged with yellow ; a 

 broad yellowish-white supercilium extending to the nape with 

 a black line above continued across the forehead, and another 

 black line below from the eye to the nostril ; a black spot behind 

 the eye ; another broad yellowish-white streak from the base of the 

 bill below the eye, below this streak the malar region is black 

 mixed with greenish white ; ear-coverts greenish grey ; wing- 

 feathers brownish black, inner webs of all with imperfect white 

 bands, in the primaries towards the base only; outer webs of 

 primaries with equidistant yellowish- white spots ; outer webs of 

 secondaries and tertiaries greenish dusky barred with whitish ; 

 primary-coverts dusky, with white spots ; tail-feathers above 

 brownish black with white bars rather narrower than the inter- 

 spaces ; below, the dark bars are pale and the whole feathers 

 tinged with yellow ; throat and breast pale greyish green, some- 

 times varying to pale ashy ; abdomen and flanks with lower wing- 

 and tail-coverts greenish white, each feather with a black intra- 

 marginal band producing a scale-like marking, and with sometimes 

 a black shaft-stripe. 



Female. Crown and occiput black instead of crimson, the bases 

 of the feathers leaden grey, and the sides of the frontal and coronal 

 feathers greenish grey. 



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