84 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



feather dusky black, edged and broadly tipped with green ; 

 shafts black ; forehead^, crown, and nape crimson, bases of 

 the feathers leaden grey ; lores and space around the eye, 

 including front half of the ear-coverts, black; malar patch 

 crimson, bordered with black ; posterior half of ear-coverts 

 and side of face pale greyish green, shading into brighter 

 green down the side of the neck ; hind neck of the same 

 colour as the back ; chin and throat dirty greenish white ; 

 chest and breast pale greyish green inclining to yellow; 

 remainder of the underparts of a brighter yellow, with in- 

 distinct dusky tips to the feathers ; thighs with cross mark- 

 ings of oliA'c; under tail-coverts dirty yellowish white, with 

 broad V-shaped markings of greenish dusky; under wing- 

 coverts pale yellow, banded with dusky olive; axillaries 

 yellow, the basal portion being white : " bill greyish black, 

 the lower mandible with a yellowish longitudinal band near 

 the base ; irides white; feet dull bluish grey, the claws light 

 greyish brown, with a tinge of blue''^ {Macyillim'ay) . Total 

 length 12"4 inches, culmen 1'9, wing 6*5, tail 4, tarsus 1'2 ; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'85, outer posterior 

 0"8, inner anterior 0"68, inner posterior 0'4. 



Nestling, male. Feathers of the back and the scapulars 

 yellowish olive on the tij)s and margins, and crossed by a 

 yellowish bar with a v^'hite shaft-spot, the bases dusky ; rump 

 chrome-yellow, with dusky or dusky olive and white bars 

 showing through ; upper tail-coverts tipped and margined 

 with chrome-yellow, the remaining part of the feathers dusky 

 or dusky olive, crossed by brownish- Avhite bars ; wing-coverts 

 dusky, more or less washed with yellowish-olive and barred 

 with dull white ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky 

 black, edged externally with dull yellowish olive, and having 

 marginal spots of dull white ; primaries dusky black, the 

 outer webs spotted along their whole length with white, the 

 innermost margined with yellowish olive, and the inner webs 

 of these spotted with white on the basal margin ; the secon- 

 daries having the outer webs yellowish olive, the outermost 

 with a trace of dull white spotting, inner webs dusky black, 

 yellowish olive on the tip, with transverse marginal spots of 



