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Vol. X.] BOMBAY. [Ni3. 3. 



THE BIRDS OF NORTH CACHAR. 



Pakt VI. 



By E. C. Stuart Baker, f.z.s., m.b.o.u. 



{With Plate F.) 



{Continued from page 168.) 



Order — Scansores. 



Family Picidce. 



Sub-Family Picince. 



(376) Gecinus striolatus.— The Lesser Indian Green Woodpecker. 



Hume, No. 171; Blanford, No. 948.* 



There is a specimen from Cachar in the Hume Collection in the 

 British Museum, so it must undoubtedly be accepted as a Cachar bird. 

 I haye never met with it myself, nor have any of my collectors, so that, 

 at all events, it must be a very rare bird, as it is not one to be over- 

 looked, being quite as noisy as most of the other species of the same 

 genus. 



* Shortly after the manuscript of this article was completed, I received the 3rd Vol. of the 

 Birds in the Fauna of B. I. series, and I now give Blanford's serial numbers. These numbers 

 are not in sequence owing to the fact that the 3rd Vol. of the Birds does not agree entirely 

 in classification with Gates' edition of Hume's " Nests and Eggs " which classification 

 1 adopted as being a continuation of that contained in the first two volumes of Birds, 



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