OF THE TENASSERIM PROVINCES. 471 



149 bis. — Palasornis bengalensis, Gm. General ; does not ascend 

 the Hills. 



150 bis. — Palseornis Finschii, Hume. Kollidoo, Kyouknyat ; 

 Hills only. 



152. — Palseornis fasciatus, Mull. Passim; common. 



153. — Loriculus vernalis, Sparrm. General. 



•153 ter. — Psif.tinus incerta, Shaw. 



156 bis. — Pious atratus, Bly. Pine Forest north of Pahpoon; 

 only. 



157. — Picus Macii, V. 



163 bis. — Yuugipicus canicapillus, Bly. General; common. 



165 bis. — Hemicercus canente, Less. General; not very 

 numerous. 



165 ter. — Meiglyptes tristis, Horsf. 



165 quat. — Meiglyptes jugularis, Bly. General; not numerous. 



166. — Chrysocolaptes sultaneus, Hodgs. General; intermedi- 

 ate in size betwen true sultaneus and Delesserti. 



168. — Muelleripicus gutturalis, Yalenc. Neighbourhood of Pah- 

 poon up to Pahchaun and 30 miles south of Moulmein. 

 Identical with specimens from Upper Burmah and the 

 Oudh Terai. 



1 69 ter. — Thriponax Crawfurdi, Gr. Pahpoon and Kyouknyat ; 

 only. 



171 bis. — Gecinus vittatus, V. General ; but does not ascend 

 Hills north of Pahpoon where replaced by nigrigenys. 



171 ter. — Gecinus nigrigenis,* Hume. Hills north of Pahpoon; 

 only ; there common. 



* I see that my name nigrigenis must probably be maintained for this beautiful 

 Red-backed Green "Woodpecker discovered by Davison in January of this year in 

 Northern Tenasserim. Ramsay's name erythropygius was doubtless published thirteen 

 days earlier than mine, but I find that the specific name erythropygius has been 

 already pre-occupied by Mr. D. G. Elliot; who, in the Nouvelles Archives du Museum 

 for 18616, Bulletin, p. 76, describes a very nearly allied Gecinus from Cochin China, 

 where it had been discovered by M. Germain. It is figured in PI. Ill of the Volume 

 cited. 



The two birds differ, first in size, ours, being a good deal the larger, as will be seen, 

 from the subjoined dimensions : — 



$ G. erythropygius, Elliot. ? G. nigrigenis, Hume. 

 I-ength ... ... 110 ... ... 12-75 to 1325 



Wing ... ... 5-7 ... ... 6-12 to 64 



Tail ... ... 435 ... ... 50 to 5-6 



Bill, at front ... ... 1-16 ... ... 1-3 to 1-4 



Tarsus ... ... rift-' ... ... P15 to 1-2 



Besides this our bird is altogether brighter colored, the yellow of the chin and 

 throat especially ; the black of the head, extends further on to the sides of the head 

 and down the nape ; very few of our birds (only one in ten of our specimens,) have a 

 stripe from the eye backwards over the ear-coverts, and when our birds have it, 

 it is white ; in Elliot's it is yellow; moreover to judge from the plate the upper tail- 

 coverts in erythropygius, Elliot, reach to within one inch of the end of the tail ; in our 

 bird they do not reach to within 2 - 5 inches; lastly the rump in our bird is apparently 

 much brighter colored. 



