30 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinns, 



winting of G. sharjni, observes : — " Far out among the boulder- 

 strewn ridges, while Redleg-shooting, I used to find numbers 

 of Green Woodpeckers, miles away from trees ; they were 

 attracted thither by the swarms of ants/^ He further states 

 that it is one of the earliest breeders in Spain. According 

 to Mr. W. C. Tait the present species is abundant all over 

 Portugal. Mons. Adrien Lacroix (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1877, p. 486) records the capture of an adult male of this 

 species at Martory, Haute-Garonne, upon the 14th of March, 

 1877 ; but he considers it only a local race. The occurrence 

 of this bird, (if Mons. Lacroix has not been mistaken in his 

 identification) north of the Pyrenees would be interesting ; 

 but it is surprising that a species well known to our English 

 ornithologists who have visited Spain, and by them supposed 

 not to range north of the Guadarrama mountains, should 

 actually be found north of a second range like the Pyrenees. 

 Mistakes in identification do occur, and I cannot divest 

 myself of the idea that this is one*. 



6. Gecinus viridis. 



Le Pic Verd, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 9 (1760) ; Buff. Hist. Nat. 

 Ois. vii. p. 355 (1783) ; Daub. PI. Enl. pi. 371, incorrect, 

 pi. 879 {S). 



Le Pic Verd du Mexique, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 16 (1760). 



Le Pic jaune de Perse, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 20 (1760) ; 

 Salerne, Hist. Nat. Ois. p. 108 (1767). 



The Green Woodpecker, Penn. Brit. Zool. Bds. p. 78, 

 pi. E, c? (1766) ; Wallis, Nat. Hist. Northumb. i. p. 319 

 (1769) ; Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 577 (1782) ; Penn. Arct. 

 Zool. ii. p. 277 (1785); Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 110 

 (1787); Lewin, B. Gt. Brit. ii. p. 34, pi. xlvi., o" (1796); 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. ii. (1802); Bewick, Hist. Bds. i. p. 136 

 (1826) ; Hewits. Mag. Zool. & Bot. ii. p. 313 (1838) ; Bury, 

 Zool. 1845, p. 915 ; Thomp. Nat. Hist. Irel. ii. App. p. 441 

 (1851) ; Hadf. Zool. xxiii. p. 9608 (1865). 



Picus viridis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 175 (1766) ; Scop. 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. i. p. 47 (1769) ; Ger. Stor. Ucc. Ornith. ii. 



* [This specimen was not available for examination when I last visited 

 M. Lacroix in May 1879. — H. Saunders.] 



