8 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



and having the basal portion faintly barred with brownish 

 dusky ; dwarf feather tipped with yellowish green ; shafts 

 blacky browner at the base ; nasal plumes black ; base of the 

 forehead^ outer edge and posterior portion of the crown, and 

 occiput intense black, with grey margins to the feathers, the 

 latter parts having a striped appearance ; upper part of the 

 forehead and the greater portion of the crown crimson ; nape 

 intense black ; lores and sides of the face ashy grey ; a black 

 spot in front of the eye ; hind neck and sides of the neck 

 yellowish olive, the upper part of the latter greyer ; a black 

 malar stripe on a grey ground ; chin and throat buffy white, 

 yellower on the fore neck ; from the chest to the under tail- 

 coverts, inclusive, like the back, but a little duller in colour, 

 except on the chest, which is yellower ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white, tipped with pale yellow and broadly 

 barred with black : " bill dull horny black ; orbital skin 

 plumbeous; irides dark crimson ; feet plumbeous ; claws 

 slaty ^' (J. Scully). Total length 12'5 inches, culmen 1'65, 

 wing 5*55, tail 4'15, tarsus 1*2 ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0"8, outer posterior 0'75, inner anterior 0"<^7, inner 

 posterior 0"4'. 



In the Hume Collection there is a specimen of an adult 

 male from Sikkim, of a beautiful golden green above and 

 below, the feathers of the back as well as the scapulars 

 being edged with bright yellow ; the wang-coverts rich olive- 

 golden, inclining to golden brown ; the quills and tail-fea- 

 thers brown; the chin and throat pale yellowish buff; and 

 the fore neck, likewise the sides of the neck, very yellow. 



Young male (July) . Differs from the adult male in having 

 the partly exposed bases of the feathers of the back more 

 dusky ; the w ing-coverts and secondary quills less golden, 

 the latter with the faintest trace of dusky-green bars; the 

 central pair of tail-feathers rather more distinctly barred ; the 

 forehead with a central spot of orange-red ; sides of the face 

 mouse-grey ; the chin and throat transversely varied with 

 dusky and having a spotted appearance ; under surface of 

 the body duller green, the sides of the body, flanks, and 

 thighs having dusky olive spots and narrow transverse mark- 



