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Gen. (2) iv, p. 570 ; v, p. 5GO ; Haryitt, Ibis, 1888, p. G ; id. Cat. 

 B. M. xviii, p. 50; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 299 ; 

 Skarpe, Yarkand Miss., Aves, p. 109. 



Mong-chok, Lepcha. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and crown crimson ; plumes over 

 nostrils, upper lores, a line above the grey superciliuin, occiput 

 and short occipital crest, and a broad malar stripe from the lower 

 mandible black ; the occiput and malar stripe more or less mixed 

 with grey ; sides of head, including lower lores, supercilia, area 

 below eye, and ear- coverts, ashy grey : sides of neck, hind neck, 

 and back moderately bright green, generally tinged with bright 

 yellow on the rump and occasionally with orange, but sometimes 

 only brighter green ; secondary wing-coverts, tertiaries, and outer 

 webs of secondaries yellowish olive ; quills dark brown, the inner 

 webs, except near the tips, with imperfect white bars, the outer 

 webs of the primaries with equidistant white spots, primary-coverts 

 barred ; tail-feathers black, with greenish edges near the base, the 

 median pair with imperfect greenish-drab bars; breast green, 

 duller and more olivaceous than the back, passing into greyish 

 white on the throat and chin, and into ashy grey or sometimes 

 brownish grey on the abdomen ; lower wing-coverts banded white 

 and brown. 



Female. Whole forehead, crown, and nape black, the sides of 

 the feathers grey, producing a striped appearance. 



The young is duller in colour and the lower plumage and tail- 

 feathers are barred. 



Bill dull blackish brown ; eyelids purplish brown ; iris dull red ; 

 legs dull green ; claws greenish horn-colour (Oates). 



Length 12-5; tail 4'7 (3'8 to 5-1); wing 5*6 ; tarsus 1-2; bill 

 from gape 1'7. 



Distribution. From Murree and Kashmir throughout the Hima- 

 layas to Assam and Yunnan at moderate elevations, up to about 

 8000 feet to the westward and 5000 in Sikhim ; also the countries 

 between Assam and Burma, throughout Burma and in Siam. 



Habits, $'c. Breeds in the Himalayas from the middle of May to 

 the middle of June, laying four, five, or sometimes six white eggs, 

 moderately glossy or very polished, in a hole, usually bored in the 

 stem of a tree, but much nearer the ground than in the case of 

 G. sqiMmatus. The average size of the eggs is 1-14 by '88. 



951. Gecinus chlorolophus. The Small Himalayan 

 Yellow-naped Woodpecker. 



Picus chlorolophus, VicilL Nouv. Diet. (THist. Nat. xxvi, p. 78 (1818). 

 Picus uepaulensis, Gray in Hardw. III. Ind. Zool. i, pi. xxxi, fig. 1 



(1830-32). 

 Gecinus chloropus, Blyth, Cat. p. 58 ; Tytkr, A. M. N. H. (2) xiii, 



p. 367 (1854;. 

 Chrysophlegma clilorolophus, Horsf. 8f M. Cat. p. 662; Jerdon, 



B. I. i, p. 289 ; Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 97 ; xlv, 



