24 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Geciuus. 



present known, to the island of Yezo. Capt. Blakiston 

 obtained it at Hakodadi, and Mr. Wliitely tells us that it is 

 common in the vicinity of that town. Roux, in his ' Orni- 

 thologie de Provence/ p. 96, gives the north of America as a 

 habitat of the present species ; but no Gecini have ever been 

 found in the New World. 



4. Gecinus vaillanti. 



Picus {Chloropicus) viridis (non Linn.), Malh. Cat. Rais. 

 Ois. d'Alger., Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Metz, 1846, p. 17. 



Picus [Chloropicus) canus (non Gm.), Malh. Cat. Rais. 

 Ois. d'Alger., Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Metz, 1846, p. 17. 



Chloropicus vaillantii, Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1846-47, 

 p. 130; id. N. Classif. op. cit. 1818-49, p. 351 ; id. Monogr. 

 Picid. ii. p. 122, pi. Ixxxii. figs. 1-3 (1862). 



Picus algirus, Levaill. Jr. Expl, Sc. d'Alger., Ois. pi. v. 

 (1848-49) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 60 (1866) ; Giebel, 

 Thes. Orn. iii. p. 140 (1876). 



Gecinus alyirus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849) ; 

 Reicheub. Handb. Scans. Picinae, p. 348, no. 793, pi. dcxx. 

 fig. 4134 (1854). 



Gecinus vaillantii, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 126 (1850) 

 id. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854) ; Loche, Cat. Mamm 

 et Ois. d'Alg. sp. 191, p. 92 (1858) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1859 

 p. 159; Salv. torn. cit. p. 315 ; Tristr. op. cit. 1860, p. 373 

 Drake, op. cit. 1867, p. 425 ; Loche, Expl. Sc. d'Alger. ii 

 p. 83 (1867) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 73 (1868) 

 id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 191, no. 8673 (1870) ; Tacz. J. f. O 

 1870, p. 40; Gurney, Jun., Zool. 1871, p. 2579; Dresser 

 B. Eur. V. p. 93, pi. cclxxxvii. (1873) ; Irby, Orn. Str. Gibr 

 p. 72 (1875). 



Picus viridis (non Linn.), Carstensen, Naumannia, ii. pt. 1, 

 p. 77 (1852). 



Adult male. Entire back and scapulars yellowish olive; 

 the feathers of the rump, also the upper tail-coverts, similar, 

 and margined with chrome-yellow, a few of the former tinged 

 ■with orange ; wing-coverts slightly darker than the back ; 

 exposed portion of bastard-wing dusky, spotted with dull 



