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62. GECINUS VIRIDANUS, Blyth. 
Hargitt, tom. ctt. p. 47; Robinson and Kloss, p. 45; 
Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 95. 
Gecinus weberi, Mulley, Orn. Ins. Salanga, p. 69 
(1882). 
Picus viridianus (sic) Gyldenstolpe, p. 89. 
a-e. I 6, 4 &. W.side Telibun, Trang, S.W. Siam. 
2-3rd January, 1917. [Nos. 3800, 3813-4, 
3821-2. ] 
e-n. 6 6, 3 ?. Koh Muk (Pulau Muntia) Trang, 
S.W. Siam. 5-6th January, 1917. [Nos. 
3839-40, 3848-51, 3863-5. ] 
n—q. 2 6, 1 ¢. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S.W. 
Siam. 1o-11th January, 1917. (3876-7, 
3888. } 
“Tris chocolate, upper mandible black, lower yellow, 
slate at tip, feet olive, orbits slate.”’ 
Both bronzy green and olive green types are represented 
in the series from each island, all the specimens being quite 
adult. 
Two males from Koh Muk present a curious abnormality, 
having the feathers of the flanks and abdomen largely creamy 
white, evidently due to partial albinism, which is by no means 
uncommon among species both of birds and mammals inhabit- 
ing small islands in the Malayan area, and presumably to be 
explained by deterioration of stock due to excessive inbreeding. 
In the north of the Peninsula, this species takes the place 
of G. vittatus, which has not been met with north of Langkawi, 
while the southernmost specimen of G. viridanus in our poss- 
ession was obtained at Pelarit, Perlis. The relation between 
the two forms is however evidently not subspecific as the large 
series in the Museums show no evidence of intergradation. 
63. GECINUS VITTATUS EISENHOFENI (Gyldenstolpe). 
Gecinus vittatus (nec Vietll.). Robinson and Kloss, 
p. 45; Robinson Ibis 1915, p. 738. 
Picus vittatus eisenhoferi, Gyldenstolpe, Ornith. 
Monatsb. xix, p. 28 (1916); td. op. cit. p. 88 (1916). 
a. %. Pulau Dayang Bunting Langkawi, toth 
December, 1916. |No. 361Q.! 
Gyldenstolpe (loc. cit.) is probably not incorrect in separ- 
ating the northern race of this woodpecker from that inhabit- 
ing the Southern Malay Peninsula, Java and Sumatra, though 
the material at his disposal appears to have consisted of a 
single female with a wing of 142 and a tail of 128. 
The present bird has the wing 137 and the tail, which ts 
not completely grown, about 114. Two other females from the 
