26 A FIRST LIST OF THE BIRDS 



Woodpeckers of India and the Indo-Malayan region. In all 

 these, to the best of my belief, when any difference in size 

 exists, it is the male and not the female that has the larger bill. 

 In all adult cordatus that I have examined, the bills of the birds 

 with the speckled foreheads are conspicuously larger than 

 those of the birds with the buffy white forehead and crown. 

 Quite independent therefore of the almost conclusive analogy 

 to be derived from the certainty we have iu regard to canente, 

 this structural difference strongly confirms my contention. (See 

 also Vol. IV., p. 389.) 



166 — Chrysocolaptes sultaneus, Hodgs. 



"This Golden-backed Woodpecker is among the commonest 

 we have ; it remains all the year. It makes a very harsh noise 

 which can be heard a long way off; it is very active ; one may 

 dodge round a tree on which one is feeding several times without 

 getting a sight of it. — J. I." 



I have already discussed this species when treating of the 

 birds of Upper Pegu (Vol. III., p. 64.) The Cachar specimens, 

 like those of Upper Burma, are too small for the true sultaneus 

 and too large for the true Delesserti. 



Of a fine male from Cachar the bill measures 1*95 at front, 

 and the wing 6*7. 



171.— Gecinus striolatus, Blyth. 



"The lesser Indian Green Woodpecker is very common 

 during the cold weather months and also often seen in the 

 rains. — J. I." 



172.— Gecinus occipitalis, Vig. 



a This Woodpecker is also common. — J. I." 



173.— Chrysophlegma flavinucha, Gould. 



" This Woodpecker is not uncommon, but only met with in 

 dense jungle ; it remains all the year. — J. I." 



174.— Chrysophlegma chlorolophus, Fieill. 



" Rather rare; I have only seen it some half dozen times.— 

 J . 1. 



176.— Venilia pyrrhotis, Hodgs. 



" Very rare; met with occasionally in thick Jungle.— J. I." 



177.— Gecinulus grantia, McClell. 



«Thi Sf Woodpecker is rather rare ; I have only met it in 

 bamboo jungle. — J. I." 



