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nuchal crest black, except an area of variable size on the crown, 

 which is crimson ; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and upper tail- 

 coverts yellowish green ; rump bright scarlet, sometimes mixed 

 with yellow (the latter may sho\v immaturity); quills dark 

 brown, the inner webs with white bands, outer webs of 

 primaries with white spots, outer webs of secondaries through- 

 out and of primaries near the base yellowish green ; tail black, 

 the median feathers with green edges towards the base ; chin, 

 throat, sides of neck, and upper breast yellow, shading off 

 on the lower breast into the colour of the abdomen, which is whitish 

 with scale-like brown markings formed by intramarginal bands and 

 shaft-lines to the feathers, these markings being broader on the 

 lower tail-coverts. 



The female wants the red of the crown, but otherwise resembles 

 the male. In some specimens of both sexes there is a white or 

 yellow line behind the eye. 



Bill dark horny : iris sulphur-yellow ; legs and feet dark green; 

 claws horny (Bingltam). The basal portion of the lower mandible 

 is yellow to a variable extent. 



Length 12-75 ; tail 5 ; wing 6-3 ; tarsus T2 ; bill from gape 1'6. 



Distribution. From Karennee and Toungngoo in the north to 

 Southern Tenasserim. A specimen has also been received at the 

 British Museum from Siam. The true G. erytliropygius^ from 

 Cochin China and Laos, has a white bill. 



Habits, fyc. This beautiful green Woodpecker keeps to the drier 

 and more thinly wooded Tenasserim hills, and is chiefly found in 

 eng- (Dipterocarpus) and bamboo-jungle. According to Bingham 

 its note is peculiar and consists of 12 to 15 whistled notes, the 

 first high and shrill, the others descending in the scale. The nest, 

 containing two glossy white eggs measuring 1'18 by '93, was 

 found by the same observer in a pynkado-trec (Xylia) on 

 March 18th. 



Genus CHRYSOPHLEGMA, Gould, 1849. 



Bill more curved than in Gecinus ; culmen blunt, nasal ridge 

 almost obsolete. A moderately long nuchal crest. The coloration 

 above is similar to that of Gecinus, green being the prevailing tint, 

 the crest is yellow and the quills barred with rufous. Below, 

 except on the throat, the colour is nearly uniform. The sexes are 

 distinguished by difference of colour in the chin and malar region, 

 not on the crown. This genus ranges from the Himalayas to 

 Borneo and Java. 



Key to the Species. 



Upper surface of wings green C. flamnucha,) p. 28. 



Upper surface of wings red = C. humii, p. 28. 



