40 



c'. cJ ad. St. 



Ain, France. 



Mentone. 



Asia Minor (T. Eobson). 



Asia Minor, Dec, Jan., Fel)., 



March {T. Robson). 

 Taurus, Asia Minor, Marcli, 



Dec. (C. G. Dunford). 

 Gumushkhana, Asia Minor, 



June 27, 1848 {Dickson S^ 



Hoss). 

 Persia. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Purchased. 



2. Gecinus sharpii. 



Gecinus viviiis (tioji Zinn.), Lilfurd, Ibis, 1866, p. 176; Saund. op. 

 cit. 18G9, p. 182, 1871, p. 05. 



Picus viridis {nan Linn.), A. C. Smith, Ibis, 18G8, p. 448. 



Gecinus sharpii, Saund. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 153 ; Dresser, B. Eur. t. 

 p. 89, pi. 286 (1872) ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 71 (1875) ; Saund. Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 325 ; Lacroix, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Tou- 

 louse, 1877, p. 133 * ; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 486 ; 

 Chajmi. Ibis, 1884, p. 79; Tait, op. cit. 1887, p. 304; Hart/, op. 

 cit. 1888, p. 27. 



Adult male. Eesembles G. viridis, but differs in having the face 

 grey, there being only a spot of black upon the loral region ; the 

 malar stripe more scarlet than crimson, and not bordered with 

 black. Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 6-05, tail 3-7, 

 tarsus 1'2 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-77, outer posterior 

 0*65, inner anterior 0*6, inner posterior 0-3. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the malar 

 stripe black. Total length 11*5 inches, culmen 1"75, wing 6-15, 

 tail 3-6, tarsus 1"23. 



Nestling, male. May be distinguished from that of G. viridis in 

 having the face slaty grey, slightly greenish anteriorly, striped and 

 spotted with dull white ; the supercilium unspotted ; sides of the 

 fore neck and chest greyer ; the spots on the underparts less trans- 

 verse, being diamond-shaped, heart-shaped, and Y-shaped, except 

 on the flanks and thighs, which are barred ; the upper tail-coverts 

 not barred. 



Eah. Spain south of the Guadarrama Mountains, and throughout 

 Portugal. 



a,b. (S 2 ad. ; 



cJ juv. sk. 

 d. cJ juv. sk. 



e,/. $ ad.sk. 



Cota de Dona Ana, Spain, May Lord Lilford [P.]. 



1872. 

 Sta. de Isnalloz, Spain, Feb. 2, Tweeddale Coll. 



1872 {Howard Saunders). 

 Coto del Rev, Spain, Jan. 1872. Col. Irby [P.]. 



* Said by M. Lacroix to Lave been obtained at Martorj', Haute Garonne ; 

 but, as I have pointed out (Ibis, 1888, p. 30), I think there has been a mistake 

 in the identification. 



