40 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinns. 



that it was from a bird in a somewhat similar phase of 

 plnmage (but with the peculiar coloration distributed over 

 other parts) that the painting was taken upon which Aldro- 

 vandi founded his species Picus luteus cyanopus per'sicus. 

 G. viridis does not occur in Palestine. In Persia it is found, 

 and Mr. Blanford (Zool. E. Pers. ii. p. 135) records a spe- 

 cimen from near Shiraz, obtained in June, and in a note 

 appended by Sir O. St. John, the latter gentleman writes : — 

 "In 18G4 I shot a young Green Woodpecker in the oak 

 forest_, the only one I have ever seen in Southern Persia. In 

 1869 my collector procured an adult specimen in the same 

 place. It is probably a rare straggler from the forests of the 

 Zagros hills. '^ Severtzoff did not meet with it in Turkestan. 

 I cannot accept the statement made by Sonnini (Voy. 

 EgyptCj iii. p. 363) that the present species occurs, as a 

 bird of passage, in Egypt ; we have no reliable record of any 

 Woodpecker ever having been seen in that country. 



7. Gecinus awokera. 



Picus awokera, Temm. PI. Col. iv. no. 25, pi. 585 (1826) ; 

 id. & Schleg. Faun. Japon. p. 72, pi. xxxvi. (1847-49) ; 

 Sundev. Consp, Av. Pioin. p. 60 (1866) ; Giebel, Thes. Orn. 

 iii. p. 143 (1876). 



Gecinus awokera, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 438 (1846) ; Bp. 

 Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 127 (1850) ; id. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. 

 p. 10 (1854) ; Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, p. 349, 

 no. 797, pi. dcxx. figs. 4137-38 (1854) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 333; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 72 (1868) ; 

 id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 191, no. 8672 (1870); Blakist. & Pryer, 

 Trans. As. Soc. Jap. x. p. 136 (1882); Jouy, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. vi. p. 308 (1883). 



Chloro2^icos awokera, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 

 1848-49, p. 351. 



Chloropicus awokera, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. j). 128, 

 pi. Ixxx. figs. 1, 2 (1862). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, uniform pale 

 green; wing-coverts uniform golden olive, brighter along 

 the forearm; primary-coverts dusky, edged externally with 



