28 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Getius Gecinus. 



part of the rurap dusky olive, the feathers margined with 

 yellowish olive and crossed by a bar of this colour, with 

 a central spot of white ; lower part of rump bright chrome- 

 yellow; upper tail-coverts uniform smoky grey, with yel- 

 lowish tips ; wing-coverts dusky olive, with transverse 

 spots of olivaceous white; bastard-wing black, with mar- 

 ginal transverse spots of white ; primary-coverts black, with 

 white or olivaceous white marginal spots upon both webs ; 

 primaries dusky black, the outer webs spotted with white 

 along their whole length and tipped with the same, those 

 of the innermost margined with olive at the base, the 

 inner webs of the outer feathers spotted with white at the 

 base, the spots increasing in number upon the inner 

 feathers ; outer webs of the secondaries almost entirely 

 yelloAvish olive, the outer feathers having indistinct oliva- 

 ceous white spots, the inner webs dusky black with transverse 

 marginal spots of pure white along their whole length; shafts 

 of quills blackish brown ; tail dusky black, the base of the 

 central feathers barred with smoky grey, the lateral feathers 

 barred with smoky grey and brownish white ; shafts varying 

 from brown on the lateral feathers to black on the central 

 ones ; nasal plumes dusky, tipped with black ; lores dusky, 

 with dull white specks, and in front of the eye a spot of 

 black ; forehead, crown, and occiput scarlet, the feathers 

 being tipped with this colour and having dusky leaden-grey 

 bases ; nape and hind neck dull yellowish olive, the feathers 

 having a subaj)ical dusky black spot ; the greater part of the 

 face slaty grey, slightly tinged with greenish anteriorly, 

 sparingly spotted and striped with dull white, the stripes 

 under the eye being more distinct and varied with stripes of 

 black ; from the gape a narrow stripe of white running under 

 the ear-coverts ; malar stripe scarlet, the bases of the feathers 

 dusky black; the hinder part of face white, striped with 

 black ; side of the neck white, barred and varied with black ; 

 chin and throat white, striped with dusky black; middle of 

 fore neck white, the sides grey, spotted with black ; sides of 

 the chest grey ; the middle as well as the whole under surface 

 of the body yellowish white, covered with varied spots of 



