130 BIRDS OF TENASSEKIM. 



The quills have a little white or yellowish white at their 

 extreme bases, variable iu amount. One very fine male has not 

 a trace of this on the base of the primaries, only on the 

 bases of the secondaries and tertiaries. One female — and the 

 females seem to show it more than the males — has the basal 

 three-quarters of an inch of the inner webs of the primaries 

 white. 



171. — Gecinus striolatus, Bly. 



Said by Lord Tweeddale (B. of B., p. 76) to have been 

 obtained at Tonghoo by Major Lloyd, but seen nowhere else in 

 Tenasserim as yet. 



171 Us.— Gecinus vittatus, Vieill (68). Descb. S. F., 



III., 69. 



(Tonghoo, Rams.) Pakpoon ; Sittang R. ; Theinzeik ; Thatone ; Wimpong ; 

 Thengnnee Sakan ; Myawadee ; Topee ; Karope ; Amherst ; Yea ; Meeta Myo ; 

 Tavoy ; Shymotee ; Uslieetkerrpone ; Mergui ; Tenasserim Town ; Bopyin ; 

 Choun pyah ; Pakchan ; Bankasoon- 



Extremely common throughout the province, except in the 

 hilly portions above 3,500 feet elevation. 



[This is one of the commonest of our Woodpeckers, except 

 in the extreme south, and even there it is far from rare. 



I have not }^et met with it anywhere in the Malay Peninsula 

 south of the Pakchan. 



Its habits and notes are precisely like those of the other 

 Gecini — -occipitalis, squamatus, &c. — W. D.] 



171 ter.— Gecinus nigrigenxs, Hume. (30). Descr. 

 Pr. A. S. B., 1st May 1874., S. P., II., 244 and 

 471 n. 



{Foot of Karen Hills, to 600 feet; Tonghoo, Rams.) Pachoung ; Kollidoo ; 

 Dargwin; Makana; Myawadee ; Endingnone; Larthorgee ; E-poo j Paraduba. 



Confined to the drier and more thinly-wooded hills of the 

 outer Tenasserim range in its northern and central portions and 

 there not rare. 



[I only obtained this species in the hills to the north of 

 Pahpoon, and again all about Myawadee and the country between 

 this and Mooleyit. It is not a bird of the dense forests, and 

 does not ascend Mooleyit. In its voice it is quite similar 

 to the other members of the genus. It does not, that I am 

 aware, extend to the low flat country anywhere, nor do I know 

 of its occurring anywhere south of Paraduba. I did not find 

 it anywhere about Meetan. It is most abundant in open 

 bamboo jungle and about clearings ; it goes about in parties or 

 families of 4 to 6, and like other Gecini habitually feeds on the 



