46 piciD^. 



latter having a central V-shaped dusky marking. Total length 13-5 

 inches, eiilmen 1"S, wing 6-05, tail -1-6, tarsus 1*15. 

 Hah. Southern Afghanistan. 



a. S ad. sk. Padda Sultan, Helniand River, Dr. Aitchisou [C.]. 



Afghanistan, Oct. 26, 1884. (Type of species.) 



b. ? ad. sk. Quetta, Dec. 1877 {Col. Sicinhoe). Hume Coll. 



7. Gecinus vittatus. 



Picus vittatus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 91 (1818) ; id. 



Sf Bonn. Enc. Meth. p. 1317 (1823) ; Di-ap. Bid. Class, xiii. p. 505 



(1828); Less. Traite, i. p. 221 (1831); Sundev. Consp. Av. Ficin. 



p. 59 (1866), pt. 

 Picus affinis, Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 288 (1821) ; Vi</. Mem. 



Raffl. p. 668 (1830). 

 Picus dimidiatus, Horsf. Gen. Cat. Jav. B. (1824) ; Valenc. Diet. 



Sc. Nat. xl. p. 174 (1826) ; Wagl. Sijst. Av. Picus, sp. 88, add. 



sp. 5 (1827) ; Drap. Did. Class, xiii. p. 507 (1828) ; Temm. PI. 



Col. texte, 85= livr. (1830). 

 Gecinus dimidiatus, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542 ; Gr«y, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 439 (1846) ; Bli/th (pt.). Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 58, no. 202 



(1849) ; Bp. Co)isp. Gen. Av. i. p. 127 (1850) ; id. Consp. Volucr. 



Zyf/od. p. 10 (1854); Reichenh. Scans. Picince, p. 350, no. 799, 



pl.'dcxxi. figs. 4141, 4142 (1854), pt. ; Iforsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. 



3Ius. B.I. Co. ii. p. 660, no. 960 (1856-58); Schomb. Ibis, 1864, 



p. 257 ; Vorder^nan, Batav. Vog. pt. 2, p. 19 (1882). 

 Malacolophus dimidiatus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 308 (1837). 

 Gecinus affinis, Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 662, 



no. 964 (1856-58). 

 Cbloropicus dimidiatus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 132, pi. Ixxvi. figs. 4-6 



^862). 

 Gecinus vittatus, Grew/, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 76 (1868), pt. ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 192, no. 8683 (1870), pt. ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 



p. 51 (1874) ; Tiraut, Ois. Basse- Cochinckine. p. 90 (1879) ; Harg, 



Ibis, 1888, p, 161. 



Adult male. Ahove yellowish olive, the rump-feathers tipped with 

 yeUow ; wing-coverts golden olive ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts blackish brown, spotted with yellowish grey ; quills blackish 

 brown, both webs of the primaries and inner webs of the second- 

 aries spotted with white, outer webs of secondaries with almost 

 obsolete greenish- white spots ; shafts brownish black ; tail and the 

 shafts black ; forehead, crown, occiput, and nape red, the forehead 

 and crown edged with black ; lores and face dull white, the ear- 

 coverts mouse-grey ; the white forming two stripes, one above, the 

 other below the ej-e ; malar stripe black ; chin, the whole of the 

 neck, and the chest uniform ochreous yellow, sometimes tinged with 

 green ; underparts yellowish white, the feathers having an inter- 

 marginal line of olive-green ; under tail-coverts whitish, with an 

 intermarginal line and shaft-streak of blackish olive, the lower series 

 greenish grey; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish white, 

 the former spotted, the latter barred with black. Sometimes the 

 central tail-feathers, or the outer large feather, have a few trans- 



