22 Mr, E. Hargitt on the Genus Geciuus. 



it to be common^ taking the place of G. viridis (G. sharpii) 

 in the higher woods/^ According to the same author, it is 

 said to occur in the forests of the Sierra Nevada and of the 

 Province of Murcia. Lieut. -Col. Irby states that in the 

 Museum at Seville there is a specimen, said to have been 

 obtained in the neighbourhood. This species is said to be 

 tolerably common in Svritzerland. In Italy, according to 

 Prof. Giglioli, this species is very rare and exclusively alpine, 

 but it is less uncommon in the Eastern Alps. Mr. Danford 

 procured it in Transylvania. The Hon. T. L. Powys (Lord 

 Lilford) observed it near Cettinye, in Montenegro. Messrs. 

 Elwes and Buckley found it near Babadagh, in Bulgaria, and 

 it has been obtained near Constantinople by Robson. Both 

 Lindermeyer and Von der Miihle include the species in their 

 * Birds of Greece.^ In Russia, according to Herr Henke 

 (Seebohra, Ibis, 1882, p. 373), it is a somewhat rare resident 

 near Archangel : Messrs. Alston and Harvie-Brown found 

 specimens in the Museum of that town. Brandt says it is 

 not very frequent in the Province of Petropoiitana. It is 

 also found in Esthonia, Livonia, and Kurland (Russow, Orn. 

 Esth-, Liv- u. Kurl. p. 118, 1880) ; but it is not so common 

 as G. viridis, and prefers small copses to large forests. 

 Goebel states that in Uman it is " not rare, though scarcely 

 to be called a common bird.^^ Sabanaeff, in his " Avifauna 

 of the Ural" (Bull. Mosc. xlii. pt. 2, pp. 185-197, 1869), 

 writes : — " Has not been found on the eastern declivity north 

 of Ekaterinburg. On the western slope it is rather common, 

 but does not breed in the birch-woods of the eastern slope.'' 

 Bogdanow, in his ' Birds of the Volga ' (p. GO. no. 42, 1871), 

 observes : — " It is strange that, up to the present time, 1 

 hardly ever met with this species in the Provinces of Kasan 

 and Simbersk, although there is no doubt that it occurs 

 here, having several times been brought to the Kasan 

 Museum from the vicinity of that town. According to 

 Riekheil's observations it is resident in the woods of the 

 Volga valley and about Sarepta, and has been procured 

 by Henke near Astrachan." The last statement does not 

 agree with that of Mr. Seebohm (Ibis, 1882, p. 209) ; the 



