THE GOLDEN-BACKED WOODPECKER. 
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streaked bird distinct from Mr. Elliotts. One of the points Mr. Hume 
insists upon is that in his bird the eye-streak is white and in Mr. Elliotts 
yellow ; but Mr. Hume himself, when first describing G. nigrigenis, 
distinctly says that the streak is pale yellow ; and all the birds I have seen 
from Burmah have the streak yellow or yellowish. The lengthened tail- 
coverts of the bird in Mr. Elliotts plate again is obviously a mistake of the 
artist_, for no Woodpecker as yet known has tail-coverts of such a length 
as compared with the length of the tail. 
The Red-rumped Green Woodpecker occurs in the drier portions of the 
Province from Tonghoo down to Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim ; and 
it does not appear to be found to the west of the Sittang river except at 
Tonghoo_, where Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay informs me he obtained it com- 
monly all round that station for fifteen miles in every direction. 
This bird was first discovered in Cochin China^ and Dr. Tiraud states 
that it is common in that country. It is most probably found in Siam 
also. 
This Woodpecker_, according to Mr. Davison^ frequents bamboo-jungle 
and clearings,, chiefly on the hills. Capt. Bingham found the nest and 
eggs in Tenasserim in the Thoungyeen valley in March. The eggS; only 
two in number^ were laid in a hole of a Pynkado tree. 
Genus CHRYSOCOLAPTES, Bl. 
447. CHRYSOCOLAPTES STEICTUS. 
THE GOLDEN-BACKED WOODPECKER. 
Picus strictus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 176. Picus guttacristatus, 
Tick. J. A. S. B. ii. p. 578. Picus sultaneus, Ilodgs. J. A. S. B. vi. p. 105 ; 
Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 79. Indopicus delesserti, Malh. Metn. Acad. Metz, 
1849, p. 343; id. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 79, pi. Ixi^. tig. 4, 5. Indopicus sultaneus, 
Malh. t. c. p. 77, pi. Ixiv. fig. 1-3. Indopicus strictus, Malh. t. c. p. 80, pi. Ixv. 
fig. 1-5. Chrysocolaptes sultaneus, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 281 ; Ball, S. F. ii. 
p. 391 ; Hwne^ S. F. iii. p. 64 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 310 ; Inglis, S. F. v. p. 26 j 
Anders. Yunnati Exped. p. 584 ; Hume 4' Dav. S. P\ vi. p. 133 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 87. Chrysocolaptes strictus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 48 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 154 ; Butler, S. F. ix. p. 238. Chrysocolaptes delesserti, Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 123 ; Bourdillon, S. F. iv. p. 389 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 87. 
Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus, Bl. Sf Wald. B. Burm. p. 75. 
Description. — Male. Feathers at the base of the upper mandible fulvous- 
