495 
Caspian Sea and the Elburz Mountains. 
Dendrocopus major syrtacus (H. & E.). [B. 130. 
W. 1903, p. 554; 1907, p. 79.] 
A male from Tehran in April. 
In Persia this form appears to he confined to the Plateau, 
and is replaced in the Caspian forests by the dark-breasted 
D. m. pcelzami. Mr. Woosnam says ( in lift .) that a Great 
Spotted Woodpecker was to he found high up in the 
mountains, but as he obtained no specimens it is impossible 
to say exactly where is the dividing-line of the two forms. 
Dendrocopus minor danfordi (Harg.). 
d . Eeb. 23; $ . March 29, S. coast, Caspian Sea. 
“ The only two seen, hut probably not rare in the Mazan- 
daran forests.”—R. B. W. 
These agree well with the type and are unlike the Lesser 
Spotted Woodpecker of S.W. Persia ( cf . 'Ibis/ 1903, p. 555), 
which has been separated by M. Zarudny and Baron Loudon 
under the name Dendrocopus minor moryani (Ornith. Jahrb. 
xv. 1904, p. 227). 
Gecinus viridis viridis (L.). 
Four from the S. coast of the Caspian Sea in February 
and March. 
“ Many were to be seen and they were still more often to 
be heard in the forest, but they were not so numerous as the 
Great Spotted Woodpecker, and in the mountains only a few 
were noticed.”—R. B. W. 
These are typical examples of the Green Woodpecker and 
are dark and richly coloured compared to the pale G. v . in - 
nominatus of the Plateau [cf. 'Ibis/ 1907, p. 79). 
Laniijs excubitor homeyeri Cab. 
Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 420. 
. March 30, S. coast, Caspian Sea. 
This is a pale form of L. excubitor. 
The Great Grey Shrikes which I obtained in S.W. Persia 
[cf. ' Ibis/ 1903, p. 533) have been determined by Dr. Hartert 
as follows :—$ Kazerun, March 31, and $ Konar Takhta, 
March 28, as L. e. aucheri: £ Bushire, March 22, and $ 
Nudan, April 16, as L. e. pallidirostris. 
