38 PlCIDiE. 



Dcinf. Sj- Harv.-Br. op. cit. 1875, p. 298 ; Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. ii. 



p. 135 (1876) ; Danf. Ibis, 1877, p. 2G4 ; id. op. cit. 1878, p. 6 ; 



£offd. B. Cauc. (Buss.), p. 119, no. 184 (1879); Goebel, Vog. 



Uman, Kr. p. 154 (1879) ; Russoio, Orn. Esth-, Liv- u. Kurl. 



p. 117 (1880) ; Brandt, J. f. 0. 1880, p. 229 ; Wharton, Ibis, 1881, 



p. 257 ; Giffl. t. c. p. 191 ; Btichn. c^ Pleske, Orn. St. Petersb. 



Gouvern. p. 76 (1881); Collett, Noryes Fucjlef. p. 314 (1881); 



Neiot. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 457 (1881); Seeb. Ibis, 1883, p. 22 ; 



Irh), t. c. p. 179 ; Badde, Orn. Cauc. p. 304 (1884) ; Clarke, Ibis, 



1884, p. 144 ; Satmd. t. c. p. 379 ; Seeb. Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 364, 



pi. xviii. (1884); Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 205 (1886); Salvad. Ucc. 



Ital. p. 67 (1887) ; Backhouse, Ibis, 1887, p. 72 ; Ilanj. op. cit. 



1888, p. 30. 

 Geciuus pinetorum, 1 



Gecinus frondiuni; V Brehm, Vof/. Deutsckl. pp. 197, 199 (1831). 

 Gecinus viresceiis, | 



Malacolophus viridis. Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 308 (1837). 

 Brachylophus viridis, Jard. Nut. Libr. x. p. 355 (1839). 

 Picus kareliui*, Brandt, Bull. Sc. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. ix. p. 12 



(1842). 

 Gecinus karelini, Grar/, Gen. B. ii. p. 438 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. 



Av. i. p. 126 (1850) ; id. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854) ; 



Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 349, no. 795 (1854); Gray, List Picid. 



Brit. Mus. p. 74 (1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 191, no. 8678 



(1870). 

 Chloropicos viridis, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, 



p. 351. 

 Chloropicus viridis, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 118, pi. Ixxix. figs. 1-4 



(1862). 

 Chloropicus karelini, Malh. Picid. ii. p. 126 (1862). 

 Gecinus sauudersif, Tacz. J.f. O. 1878, p. 349. 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts uniform j'ellowish 

 olive ; feathers of the rump and the upper tail-coverts green, with 

 the apical portion chrome-yellow ; quills dusky, the outer webs of 

 the secondaries and of the inner primaries ou their basal margin 

 washed with green, the outer webs of the primaries spotted with 

 dull white, those of the secondaries having almost obsolete greyish 

 spots or transverse markings ; inner webs of quills spotted with 

 pure white ; shafts dusky brown ; tail dusky black, barred with 

 smoky grey, the central feathers margined at the base with green ; 

 shafts dusky black ; top of the head, occiput, nape, and malar stripe 

 crimson ; nasal plumes, anterior half of face, and outer edge of 

 malar stripe black ; hind neck and side of the neck green ; posterior 

 half of face, and from the chin to the under tail-coverts, both in- 

 clusive, greenish or yellowish white, whiter on the chin and throat, 

 the vent with crescentic dusky-olive markings, the thighs and 

 under tail-coverts barred with dusky olive ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries yellowish white, the former narrowly barred with olive- 

 dusky, the latter having one or two transverse spots and a sub- 



* Mr, Seebobm, at. my request, examined tlio t3'pe in the Museum of St. 

 Petersburg, and he considers it referable to the present species, 

 t From the Caucasus, and inseparable from our own Green Woodpecker. 



