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6. Gecinus gorii. 



Gecinus squamatus {non Vigors), Sioinhoe, His, 1882, p. ] 02. 

 Geciuus gorii. Margin, Ibis, 1887, p. 74, 1888, p. 159 ; Sir O. B. 



St. John, op. cit. 1889, p. 158; Aitchison, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2ndser. 



Zool V. p. 83, pi. vi. tig. 1 c? (1889). 



Adult male. Above pale green, with a few dusky Y-sliaped 

 markiugs, the feathers of the rump and the upper tail-coverts tipped 

 with chrome-yellow ; scapulars and wing-coverts pale green, barred 

 with dusky green, the former having a few dusky Y-shaped mark- 

 ings ; bastard-wing black, spotted with creamy white on both webs ; 

 primary-coverts dusky black and similarly spotted, but with a 

 greyer shade of colour ; quills dusky black, the outer webs of the 

 primaries broadly barred with creamy white, and more or less 

 washed with green on the inner feathers, the inner webs spotted 

 with white on the margin ; the outer webs of the secondaries barred 

 with greenish grey, the inner webs being transversely spotted with 

 white along the whole margin ; tail yellowish cream-colour, narrowly 

 barred with blackish brown, the basal margin of the central feathers 

 washed with yellowish olive, the lateral feathers yellow at the tip. 

 (The head is very much damaged, but it has every appearance of 

 having been similar to G. squamatus ; the top of the head is red 

 and the malar stripe is black and white.) Throat and chest uniform 

 dull greenish yellow ; the under surface of the body and under tail- 

 coverts yellowish white, the feathers of the underparts having a 

 thread-like intermarginal line or squamate marking of blackish 

 olive ; under wing-coverts yellowish white, transversely varied with 

 black ; underside of the tail washed with yellow. Total length 13 

 inches, cirlmen 1-8, wing 6-5, tail 4-7, tarsus 1-2; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0*82, outer posterior 0-82, inner anterior 0*7, 

 inner posterior 0'42. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the head. As the head, neck, upper back, and wing-coverts 

 are much damaged in the male, the following is a description of 

 these parts taken from the female : — Nasal plumes black ; forehead, 

 crown, occiput, and nape intense black : the face creamy grey, with 

 a narrow black line behind the eye ; the lores, a superciliary stripe, 

 also a stripe under the ear-coverts, creamy white ; cheeks white, 

 striped with black ; chin and throat creamy buff, shading into yel- 

 lowish cream-colour on the chest, and greenish on the side of the 

 neck ; hind neck and upper back pale green, the feathers of the 



