GECINESLE. 117 



Above green, the rump and upper tail-coverts tinged with 

 yellowish ; forehead and lores whitish, mixed with black ; a small 

 white eye-brow, with a bkck line above it, which is lost on the hind- 

 head ; ear-coverts mixed black and white ; cheek-stripe inconspi- 

 cuous, with a white line above it ; entire under parts whitish, 

 streaked with dusky-green, more or less dark on the breast, and 

 always greenish-black on the belly ; on the throat and foreneck 

 the feathers have each a mesial dusky-black line, widening on the 

 breast, and dividing and becoming scale-like, lower on the abdo- 

 men ; caudal bars almost obsolete, except on the middle pair, and 

 on the exterior web of the outermost pair in some specimens ; 

 head crimson in the male, black in the female. 



The Small Green Woodpecker has been observed in the forests 

 west of Belgaum, and is not uncommon in the jungles at the 

 foot of the Aravalli Range ; it has not been recorded from any 

 other part of the district. 



GENUS, Chrysophlegma, Gould. 



Bill similar to that of the last, wider at the base and 

 more compressed at the tip, slightly more curved, and shorter, 

 with the lateral ridge nearly obsolete, only existing close to 

 the base of the bill ; the culmen blunt ; tail long, cuneate ; feet 

 short ; the claws very strongly curved. 



Chrysophlegma chlorigaster, Jerdon. 



175. Chrysophlegma chlorophanes, Vieill. Jerdon's Birds of 



India, Vol. I. p. 290 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 



p. 386. 



THE SOUTHERN YELLOW-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Length, 9 ; wing, 475 ; tail, 3'9 ; bill at front, 0'9. 



Bill slaty-greenish, yellow beneath ; irides reddish-brown ; legs 

 dull green. 



J^Eale with the whole head and cheek-stripe red, a small 

 occipital crest of the same color, shortly terminated by bright 

 yellow; plumage above bright green ; ear-feathers and beneath 

 dull sap or brownish-green ; the feathers of the lower abdomen 

 banded and spotted with white ; wings greenish with an orange 

 tinge, and the outer web of most of the quill feathersH3eep 

 orange-red ; the inner webs dusky with white spots ; tail unspotted, 

 black. 



Has several times been obtained in the forests west of Belgaum, 

 but hitherto has not been recorded from any other portion of 

 the district. 



GENUS Micropternus, Slyth. 



Bill broad at base ; culmen arched, the sides slightly rounded ; 

 lateral ridge wanting ; wing rather short ; tail short and broad ; 

 feet small ; versatile and anterior toes above equal ; inner hind- 



