88 NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, ZOOLOQICAL RESULTS OF THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 



inner webs of the tail-feathers. My specimen belongs to this race which then also 

 inhabits Southern Siam. 



C. in. ajjinis Blyth. has been obtained in Arracan and Pegu and it has wliite bars 

 on both webs of the outer rectrices. 



Fam. Picidae. 



165. Gecinus nigrigenis. Hume. — The Red-rumped Green Woodpecker. 

 Gccinus nigrigenis: Oustalet 1899 p. 257; Gyldenstolpe I p. 47; Gyldenstolpe II; Gyldenstolpe III p. 229. 



Sex 



Locality 



Date 



Longth 



Wing 



Tail 



Culmen 



Tarsus 









mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



ef 



Pak Koh 



74 1914 



302 



154 



127 



32,5 



24 



d 1 



Koon Tan 



"A 1914 



305 



157 



122 



34 



24 



<? 



Koon Tan 



2S /4 1914 



305 



157 



127 



34 



24 



9 



Koon Tan 



13 /6 1914 



303 



157 



127 



31 



24 



9 



Pak Koh 



13 /i 1914 



290 



154 



118 



31,5 



24 



Irides: yellowish wliite. Bill: black. Legs: greenish grey. 



Quite a common bird in the open dry forests in the North. 



None of the specimens obtained in the different parts of Northern Siam has the 

 white or yellowish white stripe behind the eye as mentioned by Hargitt (Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus. Vol. 18 p. 67). 



The bilis are quite black and there is not the slightest sign of a yellowish colour 

 on the upper mandible. 



The abdomen and the under tail-coverts are dusky brown with squamate markings 

 of darker brown. The markings are broader and almost blackish on the under tail- 

 coverts. 



166. Picus vittatus eisenhoferi. Gyldenstolpe. 1 



Gecinus vittatus: Oustalet 1899 p. 253; Kobinson & Kloss p. 45; Robinson III p. 738. 



$ Pa Hing 9 /é 1914. L == 290 mm,; W = 142 mm.; T = 128 mm.; C = 34 mm.; Tarsus = 2G mm. 

 ■ — Irides: påle crimson. Bill: blackish grey with the base of the lower mandible yellow. Legs: greenish yellow. 



Allied to P. vittatus Vieill. from Lower Siam, Cambodia, Cochin China, Southern 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java, but considerably largerandof a somewhat differing 

 colour. 



Adult female (type of the subspecies). 



Similar to P. vittatus Vieill. but much largcr. The colour of the upper parts of 

 the body bright grass green instead of yellowish olive; the rump-feathers fiercely tipped 

 with yellow; wing-coverts green for their outcr parts and dusky brown on their inner 



1 Ornith. Monatsber. 1916. N:o 2, p. 28. 



