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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
The Malaccan Yellow-naped Woodpecker occurs in the south of Tenas- 
serim from Malewoon up to Mergui_, and also in the island of Salanga. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 
According to Mr. Davison, this species is found in evergreen forests, but 
is also partial to mangrove-swamps. 
Genus GECINUS, Boie. 
443. GECINUS VIRTDANUS. 
THE STRIATED GREEN WOODPECKER. 
Picus viridanus, Bl. J. A. 8. B. xii. p. 1000. Chloropicus dimidiatus, Temm., 
Malh. Mon. Pic. ii, p. 132, pi. Ixxvi. fig. 4-6 (part.). Gecinus viridanus, 
Wald. P. Z. S. 1866. p. 539 ; Bl ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 76, Gecinus vittatus 
(V.), Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 51 (part.); Hume, S. F. iii. p. 68; Armstrong, S. F. 
iv. p. 310 ; Hume ^ Dav. S, F. vi. p. 136 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 87 ; Bingham, 
8. F. ix. p. 163. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown, nape and lengthened occipital 
feathers scarlet; back, scapulars and tertiaries green; rump and upper 
tail-coverts yellowish green; tail black, barred with white on the basal 
half ; upper wing- coverts green, the base of all the feathers barred with 
white, but the bars invisible unless the feathers be lifted ; bastard wing, 
primary-coverts and primaries black, with a series of white spots on both 
webs ; secondaries black, very broadly edged with green on the outer 
webs ; the outer webs faintly barred, the inner webs with distinct white 
bars ; lores, the ear-coverts and the feathers under the eye greyish brown ; 
feathers immediately above the eye white ; a broad stripe, commencing at 
the base of the lower mandible, covering the cheeks and running down 
each side of the throat, black, the feathers margined with white ; chin, 
throat, breast and sides of the neck sordid fulvous -green, the breast more 
or less striated with a darker shade of the same ; remainder of lower 
plumage greenish white, closely striated with brown ; under wing-coverts 
whitish, barred with greenish brown. 
The female has the red on the head replaced by black. 
The whole upper mandible and the anterior portion of the lower dark 
brown ; remainder of the lower mandible yellow ; eyelids slate-colour ; 
iris red ; legs and feet dusky green ; claws horny brown. 
Length 13 inches, tail 5, wing 5*4, tarsus I'l, bill from gape 1'6. The 
female is of about the same size as the male. 
The Javan bird (G. vittatus j Vieill.) appears to me to be quite distinct 
from the Burmese species. It is characterized by the chin and throat 
