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white, the innermost feathers almost entirely washed with 

 yellowish olive, with dull white or yellowish bars ; shafts 

 dusky black ; tail dusky black, the lateral feathers having 

 greyish barring, more or less oblique j shafts dull black ; 

 nasal plumes grey ; lores dusky black, spotted with greenish 

 white, except immediately in front of the ej^e ; forehead, 

 crown, occiput, and nape scarlet, the tips of the feathers 

 being of this colour, succeeded by a dusky spot, and having 

 leaden-grey bases ; hind neck dusky black striped with white, 

 the lower part washed with greenisli ; face greenish or yel- 

 lowish white striped with dusky black ; the supercilium dusky 

 black sjjotted with greenish white ; malar stripe dusky black, 

 the anterior half spotted with greenish white, the feathers of 

 the posterior half tipped with scarlet; ehin, throat, sides of 

 the neck, and fore neck yellowish white striped with dusky 

 black ; the whole of the under surface of the body yellowish 

 white, covered with varied transverse markings of blackish 

 olive, the thighs barred with the same; under tail-coverts 

 yellowish white barred with dusky black ; under wing- 

 coverts creamy white, with varied olive, black, and dusky 

 markings. 



Adult female. Resembles the adult male, but has the malar 

 patch black ; the abdomen with dusky V-shaped markings ; 

 the thigh-markings less pronounced; the tail not so black, 

 and the shafts brown at the base ; the rump of a richer and 

 deeper yellow. Total length 12"4 inches, culmen \-7 , wing 

 6*25, tail 3*9, tarsus 1'15. 



Nestling, female. Resembles the male nestling, but wants 

 the red on the malar stripe, this being dusky black spotted 

 with dull greenish white. 



The nestlings of this species differ from those of G. sharpii 

 in having the face yellowish white striped with black ; the 

 supercilium spotted with olivaceous white ; in not having 

 any grey on the sides of the fore neck and chest ; the mark- 

 ings on the under surface of the body being more transverse, 

 and the upper tail-coverts barred with dusky olive and dull 

 white. 



This is, perhaps, the best known of all the Gecini, and the 



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