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5. Gecinus sharpii. 



Geclnus viridis (iion Linn.), Lilford, Ibis, 1866, p. 176; 

 Saund. op. cit. 1869, p. 182; id. op. cit. 1871, p. 65. 



Picus viridis (non Linn.), A. 0. Smith, Ibis, 1868, p. 448; 

 Giebel, Thes. Oru. iii. p. 186 (1876). 



Gecinus sharpii, Saund. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 153; Dresser, B. 

 Eur. V. p. 89, pi. 286 (1872) ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 71 (1875) ; 

 Saund. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 325 ; Lacroix, Bull. 

 Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, 1877, p. 133; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1877, p. 486; Cliapm. Ibis, 1884, p. 79; Tait, op. 

 cit. 1887, p. 304. 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars and wing-coverts, 

 uniform vivid green; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 brownish black, barred with greenish grey ; quills brownish 

 black, the outer webs of the primaries having numerous 

 small white patches or spots, those o£ the secondaries being- 

 green, with indications of light spots ; the inner webs of the 

 whole spotted with white ; shafts dark brown ; rump chrome- 

 yellow, with a slight trace of red ; upper tail-coverts green, 

 margined and tipped with chrome-yellow ; tail brownish 

 dusky, the two central feathers margined with green at the 

 base and barred with light greyish ; the remainder with a 

 slight indication of barring : tips of the feathers and shafts 

 black, the bases of the latter being brown ; forehead, crown, 

 and occiput scarlet, the bases of the feathers leaden grey ; 

 lores black ; orbital region grey ; side of the face yellowish 

 grey, becoming bright green on the side of the neck and hind 

 neck ; a broad scarlet malar stripe, bases of the feathers 

 black, but the stripe not margined with it ; chin and throat 

 buffy white ; fore neck and chest pale greyish yellow ; entire 

 underparts light yellowish_, the thighs barred with olive ; 

 under tail-coverts dusky greenish yellow; under wing- 

 coverts yellowish white, barred with brownish dusky ; axil- 

 laries yellowish white. Total length 12' 5 inches, culmen 1*7, 

 wing 6"05, tail 3*7, tarsus 1'2 ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0*77, outer posterior 0'65, inner anterior 0*6, inner 

 posterior 0"3. 



Male nestling (May 13th). Back, scapulars, and upper 



