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pt. 2, p. 70 : Hume, S. F. ill, p. 71 ; v, p. 26 ; xi, p. 62 ; id. Cat. 

 no. 174 ; Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 76 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. 

 vi, p. 138; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 206; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 249; 

 Binyham, S. F. ix, p. 164 ; Gates, B. B. ii,'p. 45 ; (7. ^. T. Mar- 

 shall, Ibis, 1884, p. 410 ; Salvador*, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 2, iv, 

 p. 578 ; v, p. 565 vii, p. 379. 



Gecinus chlorolophus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1888, p. 184 ; id. Cat. B. M. 

 xviii, p. 59 ; Gates in Humes N. 8f E. ii, p. 300. 



The Lesser Ydlow-naped Woodpecker, Jerdon. 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes and a line above lores black ; 

 forehead, a stripe from the forehead on each side of the crown to 

 the nape, and the tips of the feathers forming a malar stripe on 

 each side of the lower mandible crimson ; crown of head olive- 

 green, some of the occipital feathers occasionally tipped crimson ; 

 nuchal crest of loose-textured feathers ending in filaments golden 

 to orange-yellow ; back, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 bright yellowish green ; lores and a band beneath the eye and 

 ear-coverts, also a narrow line over the eye, whitish ; ear-coverts 

 pale olive; quills dark brown, the inner webs, except near the 

 tips, with squarish white spots ; outer webs of primaries near 

 their base, and outer webs of secondaries throughout red bordered 

 with green ; a few small white spots (sometimes wanting) on 

 outer webs of primaries : tail black, the median feathers with 

 bronzy-green edges near the base ; lower parts olive ; chin, throat, 

 abdomen, under wing-coverts, and lower tail-coverts barred with 

 w T hite or greenish white. 



Female. No crimson on the forehead, sides of head above the 

 eye, nor on malar stripe, but there is a band on each side of the 

 occiput ; otherwise the plumage resembles that of the male. The 

 young are duller, the lower parts dusky, not green, and barred or 

 spotted throughout. 



Bill yellowish-green horny, culmen and tip dark plumbeous ; 

 irides carmine-red ; orbital skin bluish plumbeous ; tarsi dingy 

 green ; claws pale horny (Scully}. 



Length 10-5 ; tail 4 ; wing 5'4 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from gape 1-25. 



Distribution. The lower Himalayas up to about 10,000 feet, as far 

 \vestas Chamba, also Assam, Cachar, Tipperah, Manipur, Arrakan, 

 Burma generally, and Tenasserim. A specimen referred to this 

 species has been obtained from Perak. This Woodpecker has been 

 reported from Orissa, but its occurrence in the Indian Peninsula 

 must be regarded as doubtful. 



Habits, <$fc. Like other members of the genus, this green Wood- 

 pecker sometimes feeds on the ground. In Burma it is found 

 both in thick forests and open tree-jungle. The nest has been taken 

 in Sikkim in April, and contained three eggs, one measuring 1-14 

 by 72. The nest-hole was 14 feet from the ground in the stem 

 of a dry tree, the eggs white and glossy. 



