picari^:. 



PICID.F. 

 GECININ^E. 



Genus GECINTTS. 



Bill rather short ; upper mandible widened at the gape ; culmen curved, lateral ridge near 

 and parallel to it ; nostrils partially concealed. Wings with the 1st quill short, and the 4th and 

 5th subequal and longest. Tail moderately long and pointed. Feet strong, with the anterior 

 longer than the posterior toe ; claws very strong and deep. 



GECINUS STEIOLATUS. 



(THE STRIATED GREEN WOODPECKER.) 



Brachyloj>hus squamatns, Jerdon, Cat. Birds S. India, Madr. Journ. 1840, xi. p. 213.no. 210. 

 Picus striolatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1843, xii. p. 1000 ; Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picidse, p. 60 



(1863). 

 Picus squamatns, Jerdon, 2nd Suppl. Cat. B. S. India, Madr. Journ. 1844, xiii. p. 138. no. 210. 

 Brachylophus xanthopygius, Hodgson, Cat. Nepal Birds, p. 85 (1845). 

 Gecinus striolatus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 57 (1849); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E. I. Co. no. 902 (1854) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 287 (1862) ; Legge, Str. Feath. 



1873, p. 488 (first record from Ceylon); Ball, ibid. 1874, p. 391 ; Hume, ibid. 1875, 



p. 68; Butler, ibid. p. 458; Inglis, ibid. 1877, p. 26; Fairbank, ibid. p. 396; Ball, 



ibid. p. 413. 

 Gecinus xanthopygius, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 127 (1850). 

 Chloropicus striolatus, Malherbe, Mon. Picidse, pi. 77, p. 134 (1862). 

 The Lesser Indian Green Woodpecker, The Small Green Woodpecker, Indian authors. 



Adult male and female. Length 105 to 109 inches ; wing 5 - l to 5-3 (a female measures 5'2) ; tail 3 - 8 ; tarsus I/O ; outer 

 anterior toe 0-8, claw (straight) 0-42 ; outer posterior toe 0-75 ; bill to gape 1-45 to 1*6. Weight of male 3J oz. 



Iris reddish, with a frosted silver outer circle ; bill blackish, the upper mandible with a pale edge, lower mandible yellow, 

 with the tip dusky ; legs and feet dusky greenish. Mr. Oates describes the eyelid in Burmese specimens as 

 bluish grey. 



Male. 1'orehead, crown, and occiput dull crimson, bounded by a black line passing from the upper part of the lores over 

 the eye to the nape, where it spreads out into a crest in continuation of the red of the hind head ; below this 

 line a white streak passing from above the eye to the nape ; lores and cheeks dusky whitish, the latter with a 

 black stripe formed by the centres of the feathers : ear-coverts greenish grey ; back and wings dull green, changing 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts into yellow, with a wash of orange on the centre of this part ; primaries, 

 inner webs of tertials, and all the secondaries, except the green external portion, dark brown, with a series of 

 external white spots on the primaries, and inner white marginal bars towards the bases of all the quills : 

 secondaries with pale indentations at the inner edge of the green portions ; tail blackish brown, with interrupted 

 or marginal bars of greenish grey on the central feathers, the remaining feathers with dusky bars and 

 pale edges. 



Beneath greenish grey of different depths, darkest on the chest and palest on the lower parts, each feather with a sub- 

 edging of brown, forming a lanceolate mark ; on the flanks and parts of the breast there is a central stripe as 



