54 PICIDJ3. 



Gecinus viridicanus, I j^^,^^^ y j)^^^f^^,j jgg 2OI (18:31). 

 (jtecinus caniceps, ( > ^ it- j \ ■> 



Malacolophus caniis, Swams. Classif. B. ii. p. 308 (1837). 

 Chloropicus cauus, M(dh. Picidce, ii. pp. 124, 294, pi. Ixxxi. figs. 1, 



2 (1862). 

 Picus cauus jessoeusis *, Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 188G, 



p. 106. 

 Picus canus perpaUidus, Stejneger, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mtts. 1886, p. 107 



(footnote). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 yellowish olive, the feathers of the rump and the upper tail- coverts 

 broadly tipped with chrome-yellow ; wing-coverts and outer webs 

 of the secondaries more golden green, the remaining portion of the 

 quills dusky brown, the outer webs of the primaries spotted with 

 dingy white and margined with green at the base, the secondaries 

 having almost obsolete spots of smoky grey on the outer webs; inner 

 webs of the quills spotted with pure white, except on the apical 

 portion of the primaries ; shafts dusky brown ; tail greyish brown, 

 the basal portion of the central pair of feathers and the lateral 

 feathers chiefly on their outer webs, with bar-like spots of grey ; 

 shafts dusky brown ; nasal plumes black ; top of the head and nape 

 greenish grey, with a large coronal patch of crimson ; face grey, 

 grading into green on the side of the neck, with a small spot of 

 black in front of the eye and a narrow black malar stripe ; from the 

 chin to the under tail-coverts, both inclusive, greyish white, the 

 chest and breast, particularly, and the underparts, in a lesser 

 degree, washed with green, the under tail-coverts having crescentic 

 and V-shaped dusky markings ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white tinged with yellow and barred with dusky black : " bill horny 

 brown, more coloured above than below ; iris pale red ; feet black " 

 (Degl. <^- Gerbe). Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-6.5, wing 5-8, 

 tail 3-95, tarsus I'l ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior O'So, 

 outer posterior O'S, inner anterior 0'6, inner posterior 0'37. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having no red on the 

 head, the forehead and crown being greenish grey streaked with 

 blackish. Total length 11-1 inches, culmen 1'4, wing 5-55, tail 

 3-9, tarsus 0-95. 



Hah. Throughout the greater part of Europe, in Southern and 

 Eastern Siberia, Manchuria, Corea, Mongolia, Northern China, and 

 n the Island of Yezo. 



a,b. cJ 2 ad. sk. Norwav. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Wermlaud, Dec. 1872. W. Meves [C.]. 



d. c? ad.sk. Wermland, Jan. 22, 1874 {W. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Meres). [P.]. 



e,f. (5 2 ^<i- j Gadsjo, Sweden, Jan., Dec. Tweeddale Coll. 



ff. (S juv. .sk. (li. Wheehvrifjht). 



h. ^ inim. sk. Denmark (^R. G. W. R.). Tweeddale CoU. 



* In 'The Ibis' for 1888, pp. 19-21, I have stated fuUy my reasons for 

 uniting this and also Dr. Stejneger's Piciis canns perpaUidus with G. ca7ius. 



