12 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



Gecinus tancolo, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 283; id. B. Asia, 

 vi. pi. 35 (1864) ; David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 53 (1877). 



Gecinus tancola, Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 389 ; Gray, List 

 Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 73 (1868); id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 191, 

 no. 8675 (1870); Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 392. 



Chloropicus guerini, Malh. Mouogr. Picid. ii. p. 127, 

 pi. Ixxx. figs. 4, 5 (1862). 



Picus guerini, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 61 (1866) ; 

 David, Nouv. Arch, du Mas. 1871, Bull. vii. p. 4 ; Giehel, 

 Thes. Orn. iii. p. 157 (1876). 



Picus tancola, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 61 (1866) ; 

 David, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 1871, Bull. vii. p. 4; Giebel, 

 Thes. Orn. iii. p. 182 (1876). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, uniform green ; 

 wing-coverts uniform, and more of a golden green ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts dusky, spotted with grey, and 

 having a barred appearance ; quills brownish dusky, the 

 outer webs of the primaries more or less edged at the base 

 with green and obliquely barred with white ; those of the 

 secondaries being partially or entirely green, duller than the 

 wing-coverts, faintly spotted with greyish, and having an 

 indistinct barred appearance ; the inner webs of all deeply 

 notched and spotted with white; some of the inner quills 

 almost entirely green ; shafts brownish black ; rump yel- 

 lowish olive, the feathers broadly margined and tipped with 

 chrome-yellow; upper tail-coverts more of a golden green, 

 tipped with chrome-yellow ; central tail-feathers dusky, mar- 

 gined at the base with yellowish olive and barred with ashy 

 brown; the remainder browner, and more faintly barred 

 with a lighter shade of brown ; dwarf feather tipped with 

 yellowish olive; shafts black, browner at the base; nasal 

 plumes and base of the forehead ashy grey ; rest of the fore- 

 head and fore part of the crown crimson, bases of the fea- 

 thers grey; posterior portion of the crown greenish grey, 

 streaked with black; nape black; loral region, above the 

 eye, and entire side of the face ashy grey, rather lighter on 

 the cheeks ; a small black spot in front of the eye ; mous- 

 tachial stripe black ; chin and throat bufty white ; from the 



