38 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



country, it is improbable that G. viridis will be found along 

 with it ; Portuguese Gecini formerly bearing the latter title 

 are no doubt referable to G. sharpii, and not to the present 

 species. 



Both Count Salvadori and Prof. Giglioli state that G. 

 viridis is very common throughout Italy. It does not appear 

 to exist in Corsica, and it is rare in Sardinia, according to 

 Count Salvadori, Cat. Ucc. Sard. p. 33 (1864), wherein he 

 writes : — " I have not been able to meet with a single living 

 specimen of this species, which Cara says is more common 

 at the North Cape, but even there it must be rare, as Cetti 

 could never find any. In the Museum are seen three sj^e- 

 cimens.'^ Mr. Brooke, who visited the south of the island 

 upon several occasions, never saw or heard the bird, Doder- 

 lein says it is rare in Sicily, particularly in the environs of 

 Messina, Girgenti, and Palermo, and that it breeds in the 

 large Avoods of the interior. This species is said by Mr. 

 Elwes to be somewhat rare in Denmark. Mr. Cordeaux in- 

 cludes it in his List of the Birds of Heligoland in Mr. 

 Gatke's collection, where is the only specimen known to have 

 occurred on the island. In Holland, Belgium, Germany, 

 Switzerland, and Austria G. viridis is found more or less 

 commonly. In Transylvania Messrs. Danford and Harvie- 

 Brown found it common everywhere among the lower oak 

 and beech woods. According to Messrs. Elwes and Buckley 

 it is common in all the woods of Turkey. Drummond says 

 that in Macedonia it is very common in winter. Linder- 

 meyer includes it in his ' Birds of Greece.^ According to Dr. 

 Kriiper (MS.) : — " It is not very common in forests of deci- 

 duous trees in Greece, commoner in Olympus, and has not 

 been found in the Cyclades." The Hon. T. L. Powys (Lord 

 Lilford) observed this species in the Ionian Islands. Drum- 

 mond did not meet with it in Crete. In Russia G. viridis is 

 said by Kussow (Orn. Esth-, Liv- u. Kurl. p. 117, 1880) to be 

 " very common on the islands of Oesel and Moon, and in all 

 forests of deciduous trees in the Baltic provinces.''^ In the 

 province of Gdowski, according to Buchner and Pleske (Orn. 

 ISt. Fetcrsb. Gouvern. p. 76), "the Green Woodpecker is 



