OECINUS. 



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c'. Lower parts with transverse bars or spots ; 

 a yellow nnclial crest, 

 c". Outer surfece of wing- green, tinged 

 with red. 



e^. Whole occiput never crimson ; wing 

 about 5-4. 

 rt*. Forehead, each edge of crown and 



of occiput and malar stripe crimson. G. cJtlorolophus S , V- -•^• 

 ^.1. Sides of occiput only crimson . . G. chlorolojjhus $ ,p. 2.3. 

 /3. Whole occiput crimson; wing about 

 4-6. 

 (■'. Crown and malar stripe crimson. G. chhrogaster S , P- -'_^- 



fP. Only occiput crimson G. chloroc/aster § , p. 2o. 



d". Outer su'rface of wing red G. pimiceus, p. 26. 



h. Paimp bright red <?• mrjrigenis, p. ib. 



94(). Gecinus squamatus. The Wes^t-Hlmalayan ,Scah/-bellied 

 Green ^Vood21eel•er. 

 Picas squamatus, Vn/ors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 8 ; BIyth,J. A. S. B. xii, 



p 998 

 Gecinus'squamatus, Blyth, Cat. p. 57 ; Horsf. &■ M. Caf._p.6r,9; 

 Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 286 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 9 ; Tiitler, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 202; Stolirzka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 20; Beavan, Ibis, 

 1869 p 414; Cock ^- Harsh. S. F. i, p. 350 ; Hume. Cat. no 170 ; 

 Biddidph, Ibis, 1881, p. 49 ; Scidh/, Ibis, 1881, p. 430; Hargitt, 

 Ibis, 1888, p. 153; id Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 43; Oates in Humes 

 N. ^- E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 297 ; Sharpe, Yarkand Miss., Aves, p. 108. 

 The Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker, Jerdon ; Tuktola, Ohamba. 

 Coloration. Male. Crown and occipital crest crimson ; mantle, 

 including sides of neck, back, scapulars, and secondary ^ying-coverts, 

 green, rump and upper tail-coverts strongly tinged with yellow; a 

 broad yellowish-white supercilium extending to the nape with 

 a black line above continued across the forehead, and another 

 black line below from the eye to the nostril : a black spot behind 

 the eye ; another broad yellowish-white streak from the base of the 

 bill below the eye, below this streak the malar region is black 

 mixed with greenish white ; ear-coverts greenish grey ; wing- 

 feathers brownish black, inner webs of all with imperfect white 

 bands, in the primaries towards the base only; outer webs of 

 primaries with equidistant yellowish-white spots ; outer webs of 

 secondaries and tertiaries greenish dusky barred with whitish ; 

 primary-coverts dusky, with white spots ; tail-feathers above 

 brownish black with white bars rather narrower than the inter- 

 spaces ; below, the dark bars are pale and the whole feathers 

 tino-ed with yellow ; throat and breast pale greyish green, some- 

 times varying to pale ashy ; abdomen and flanks with lower wing- 

 and tail-coverts greenish white, each feather with a black intra- 

 marginal band producing a scale-like marking, and with sometimes 

 a black shaft-stripe. 



Female. Crown and occiput black instead of crimson, the bases 

 of the feathers leaden grey, and the sides of the frontal and coronal 

 feathers greenish grey. 



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