30 PICID^E. 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes brown ; forehead, lores, crown, 

 occiput, and upper part of long occipital crest dull crimson ; lower 

 and longer feathers of the crest pale yellow ; on the sides of the 

 head the feathers are brown, tipped with crimson, sometimes 

 with terminal whitish spots ; hind neck and back dull olive-green 

 with wavy buff or yellow cross-bars ; the feathers of the lower 

 back and rump edged with pale yellow ; upper tail-coverts brown 

 with a few buff spots ; sides of neck and of back more or less tinged 

 with crimson ; scapulars and whole outer surface of wing dull 

 crimson like the head ; quills dark brown, the inner webs of all 

 with pale rufous bars, outer webs of primaries with rufous spots ; 

 chin, throat, and sides of neck light rufous brown, sometimes 

 speckled with buff and dusky, and passing on the breast into the 

 colour of the remaining underparts, which are marked with alter- 

 nate undulating bars of dark brown and rufous white. 



In the female there is no crimson on the forehead or on the sides 

 of the head in front of the ear-coverts, these with the chin and 

 throat are dark brown and speckled, each feather tipped dusky 

 with a terminal white spot. Young birds are dull pale brown 

 beneath with ill-marked dark bars. 



Upper mandible black, lower bluish white ; irides red ; eyelids 

 grey ; legs and feet pale dingy green (Davison). 



Length 10 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 5 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from gape 1-2. 



Distribution. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, extending 

 into Southern Tenasserim as far north as Tavoy. 



Habits, fyc. According to Davison this Woodpecker is found 

 in evergreen forests and mangrove swamps. It is never seen on 

 the ground, and is generally solitary. 



Genus GECINITLUS, Blyth, 1845. 



Only three toes present, the hallux or inner posterior digit 

 wanting. Bill short, compressed ; culmen blunt, nearly straight ; 

 nasal ridge obsolete ; nostrils close to base of bill ; nasal plumes 

 short. Tail-feathers broad, not acuminate ; outer pair longer than 

 coverts, but much shorter than the rest, which are regularly 

 graduated. Crest short, inconspicuous. 



Plumage of head pale and yellowish, of upper parts red or green, 

 of lower parts uniform olive or brown. Males with a red crown, 

 females without. Two species, both within our area. 



Key to the Species. 



Above dull red G. grantia, p. 30. 



Above green G. viridis, p. 31. 



958. Gecinulus grantia. The Northern Pale-Tieaded Woodpecker. 

 Picus (Chrysonotus) grantia, McClelland, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 165. 



