4. GECINUS. 



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Gecinus xauthodenis, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Miis. p. 75 (1868) ; id. 



Hand-L B. ii. p. 191, no. 8081 (1870). 

 Chrvsoplilegma chlorigaster, Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 517 (1878); Butler, 



Cat. B. S. Bomb. Prcsid. p. 24 (1880) ; id. Str. F. 1880, p. 386 ; 



Davison, op. cit. 1882, p. 298 ; id. op. cit. x. p. 355 (1883) ; Hume, 



op. cit. X. p. 457 (1887). 



Adult male. Above iiniform yellowish olive ; wing-coverts goldeii 

 olive, dull red near the shaft ; quills blackish browB, the inner webs 

 spotted with white, the outer webs of the primaries at their base 

 and entire outer webs of the secondaries dull red, more or less mar- 

 gined with greeu, the primaries having a few small spots of greenish 

 white ; shafts brown ; tail brownish black, the shafts black ; fore- 

 head, crown, and occipital crest, also malar stripe, crimson ; nuchal 

 crest yellow ; sides of face and neck duU olive, a narrow white 

 stripe from the gape running under the ear-coverts ; chin and throat 

 pale greenish buff ; the whole of the under surface of the body deep 

 olive or brownish olive, all below the chest being barred and spotted 

 with whitish ; under tail-coverts dull olive, tipped and barred with 

 dull white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dnsky brown, spotted 

 and barred with yellowish or white : " iris sombre red or brownish 

 red ; bill blackish, with the sides of the lower mandible and margin 

 of the upper, next the gape, yellow ; legs and feet olive-greenish or 

 dusky sap-green " ( ]V. V. Legge). Total length 9*5 inches, culmen 

 I'l, wing 4-65, tail 3"25, tarsus 0"S5 ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0-68, outer posterior 0"63, inner anterior 0"55, inner pos- 

 terior 0-28. 



Young male. Eesembles the adult male, but is more dusky on the 

 face and neck, and the underparts are spotted, even on the flanks, 

 and not barred as in the older birds. 



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

 crimson on the forehead and crown, these parts being blackish olive, 

 also in being without the crimson cheek-patch. Total length 9 inches, 

 culmen 0-95, wing 4-65, tail 3-15, tarsus 0-85. 



Hab. Southern portion of India, as high as Khandeish on the west, 

 and in Ceylon. 



a. 5 ad. st. 



b. 2 imm. ; c. 5 

 juv. sk. 



d. c? imm. sk. 



e. c? ad. sk. 



f,ff.c;ai.;h,i,k.2 

 ad. ; /. 2 imm. sk. 

 m. (S ad. .sk. 



V. (S ad. sk. 

 0. (S ad. sk. 



p, q. 6 $ ad. sk. 

 r. (S imm. ; s. 2 

 ad. sk. 



India, 



Khandeish, :March 1880 



{J. Davidson). 

 Khandeish. 

 Koombarwara, N. Kauara, 



May 4, 1877(-Ef. C. James). 

 Malabar. 



Cannanore, Aug. 9, 1882 



(J?. G. W. B.). 

 Wyiiaad, Aug. 10, 1877. 

 Goodalore, Wvnaad, Mar. 



28,1881 (W.Dai-ison). 

 Calicut. 

 Nilghiris, March, July. 



Purchased. 

 Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll 



Tweeddale Coll 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 



Huuie Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



