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five inches and the minute Piculets of three-and-a-half inches in 

 length. 



Burmese name for all Woodpeckers Thit-Jcouk. 

 Kachin name for all Woodpeckers Du-wan. 



BLACK-NAPED GREEN WOODPECKER 



Is distributed over the whole country in well-wooded localities, 

 and is to be found round Rangoon. Male Upper plumage green 

 tinged with yellow on the rump, forehead and crown crimson, back of 

 the head, crest, and a cheek stripe black, chin and throat white, breast 

 green. Length about twelve-and-a-half inches. Female Wants the 

 read on the head, the feathers being black with grey edges, giving 

 it a striped appearance. 



(No. 950. Gecinus occipitalis t ) 



SPOTTED BREASTED PIED WOODPECKER. 



One of the numerous pied woodpeckers, fairly common in the dry 

 zone. I have also heard its notes in the Rangoon Cantonments. 

 Male Crown crimson, a cheek stripe and back ot head black, upper 

 plumage barred black and white, tail barred black and yellowish- 

 white, chin and throat white, breast brownish and distinctly spotted. 

 Female Wants the crimson on the head. Length about seven 

 inches. 



(No. 970. Dendrocopus pectoralis.) 



THE RUFOUS WOODPECKER. 



A bird of peculiar habits, living entirely on ants, and has the pecu- 

 liar musky smell common to them. The bird even makes use of the 

 ants for nesting purposes, excavating holes in the large round ants' 

 nests so often found in trees. I have often seen these ants' nests 

 with round holes bored in them, and presume them to be the nests of 

 this bird, but as I have always been shooting at the time, have not 

 been able to tackle one of them. The bird is said to lay its eggs in 

 a chamber hollowed out in the interior, leaving the eggs to be hatch- 

 ed by the warmth of the ants, the young, when hatched, feeding them- 

 selves on their unwitting hosts, their peculiar smell no doubt protect- 

 ing them. Male Whole plumage chestnut barred more or less with 

 black, the feathers below the eye tipped with crimson. Length about 

 ten inches. Female Wants the crimson. 



(No. 983. Micropterus phseoceps.) 



