ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, (CEYLON BRANCH.) 



Western and Southern Provinces are however its head quarters, 

 in all districts of which it is exceedingly abundant; occurs" 

 thioughout the wooded country of the north-east, but is not 

 plentiful there. 



38. Yungipicus s Gymnopthalmos, Blyth. — The Pigmy 

 Wood-pecker. Layard 's Wood-pecker, Picus Gymnopthalmos, 

 Blyth. — Layard, Annals Natural History, 1854, page 44b. Kelaart, 

 Prodromus Fauna3 Zeylanica, page 128. 



Western and Southern Provinces. In the Colombo district it is 

 found some little distance inland, particularly about the wooded 

 country round Hanwelia; in the Southern Province it is more 

 numerous, and affects all the low hill-country up to 2,000 feet in 

 the Morowak K 6 rale. In the Central Province I have traced it 

 up to 2,000 feet in the Pussellawa coffee districts. 



39. Chrysophlegma Chlorophanes, FieilL— The South- 

 ern Yellovv-naped Woodpecker; Gecinus Chlorophanes, Vieill. — 

 Layard, Annals Natural History, page 448 ; Kelaart, Prodromus 

 Faunae Zeylanica, page 1 28. 



Sparingly distributed throughout the north-east, west, and south- 

 west of Ceylon, and extending into the hills, where Kelaart pro- 

 cured it as high as Nuwara Eliya. Found within ten miles of 

 Colombo; tolerably frequent up the valley of the Gindurah, and 

 rare in the north-east near Trincomalee. It most likely affects 

 the Anuradhapura, Vanni, and the country to the east of the 

 central mountain zone. 



40. B RACHTPTERNU s Ceylonus, Forster. — The Ceylon red 

 Woodpecker; Kerala, Sink: 



Widely distributed throughout the low-country of the southern half 

 of the Island and in the north-east, and extending into the hills 

 up to 3,000 feet or more in the Pussellawa and Knuckles di-tricts. 

 The headquarters of this Woodpecker are from a little south of 

 Colombo round the south-west to Matara; in this locality it is 

 exceedingly abundant, especially in the cocoanut hinds of the 

 maritime districts. I did not observe this species as frequent in 

 the Morowak K 6 rale as I should have expected. 



41. Brachypterntjs Punc'ticollis. — The Lessen Golden- 

 backed Woodpecker. Vide Holdsworth, Catalogue Ceylon Birds, 

 P. Z. S., 1872, No. 73, bis. 



Jaffna peninsula and Vanni district, and in the maritime districts of 

 the north-east. I found this Woodpecker near the sea coast in the 

 neighbourhood of Trincomalee, and likewise in the forests between 

 the Central road and that -place; it is" nowhere common, unless 

 the bird mentioned by Layard under the name of B. Aurantius, 

 as being so numerous in the Jaffna peninsula, be this species. 



