PICARl^E. 
PICIM. 
gecinina:. 
Genua GECINUS. 
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.) 
Br achy tophus squamatus, 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. Picidte, p 60 
(1863). 
Picus squamatus , Jerdon, 2nd Suppl. Cat. B. S. India, Madr. Journ. 1844, xiii. p. 138. no. 210. 
Brachyloph.us 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. 962 (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 10-5 to 109 inches ; wing 5T to 5*3 (a female measures 5'2) ; tail 3 - 8 ; tarsus l'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 Rurmese specimens as 
bluish grey. 
Male. F 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 w hite 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 
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