4. GECINTTS. 



47 



verse spots. Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 5-3, tail 3-8, 

 tarsus I'l ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-d2, outer 

 posterior ()*8, inner anterior 0*57, inner posterior 0'4. 



Adult female. Has the forehead, crown, and occiput black, but is 

 in other respects like the adult male. Total length 10-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-22, wing 5, tail 3-7, tarsus 1-1. 



Young. The males have the red on the head more of an orange- 

 scarlet, and the general colour of the plumage is duller. In the 

 nestling-stage not only are the neck and chest uniform, but the 

 underparts are nearly so, the dark markings found in the adult 

 being almost obsolete, except on the sides of the body, flanks, and 

 thighs. 



Hab. Cochin-China ((rcrmain ^' Pierre); Cambodia (Harmand) ; 

 Siam (Bocourt), and probably ranging down the eastern portion of 

 the Malayan Peninsula to the south, having been obtained at 

 Jurrum and Klaug ; Sumatra and Java. 



8. Gecinus viridanus. 



Picus squamatus (non Vig.), BlytJi, J. A. S. B. x. p. 923 (1841), 

 d juv. 



Picus viridanus, Bli/tk, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 1000 (1843) ; id. op. cit. 

 1844, App. p. 394. 



Gecinus dimidiatus {non Temm.), Bli/tit, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 58 

 no. 262 (1849), pt. ; Reichenh. Scans. Picince, p. 350, no. 799 

 pi. dcxxi. figs. 4141, 4142 (1854), pt. ; Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 150. 



Gecinus viridanus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 438 (184G) ; id. op. cit. iii 

 App. p. 21 (1849) ; Horsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E.I. Co. ii 

 p. OGO, no. 961 (1850-58) ; Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 539 ; Blyth 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 163 ; id. ^- Wald. B. Burm. p. 76 (1875) ; Oates, B. 

 Brit. Burm. ii. p. 48 (188.3) ; Harg. Ibis, 1888, p. 166. 



Picus vittatus (pt), Sundev. Consp. Ac. Picin. p. 59 (1866). 



