154 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 57, no. 260 (18^9) ; Bp. Cousp. 

 Gen. Av. i. p. 127 (1850) ; id. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10 

 (1854) ; Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, p. 350, no. 801, 

 pl.dcxxvii. figs. 4174-75 (1854); norsf.& Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 

 E.I. Co. ii. p. 659, no. 959 (1856-58) ; Leith Adams, P. Z. S. 

 1858, p. 475 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 286 (1862) ; Beavan, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 138 ; Tytler, op. cit. 1868, p. 202; Pelz. torn. cit. 

 p. 320; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 76 (1868); Beavan, 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 414; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 192, no. 8684 

 (1870) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 9 ; Cock & Marsh. Str. F. 1873, 

 p. 350; Bidd. op. cit. 1880, p. 314; id. Ibis, 1881, p. 49; 

 Scully, torn. cit. p. 430; id. Str. F. x. p. 102 (1881); Sak. 

 Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 391, no. 1912 (1882) ; Marshall, Ibis, 

 1884, p. 410. 



Chloropicus squamatus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 131 

 pi. Ixxviii. figs. 1-3 (1862). 



Gecinus flavirostris, Menzbier (ex Zarudnoi, MS.), Bull. 

 Nat. Mosc. 1886, pt. 1, p. 440. 



Gecinus zarudnoi, Menzbier, Ibis, 1887, p. 301. 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, uniform vivid 

 green ; wing-coverts uniform green of a darker shade, brighter 

 along the forearm ; bastard-wing black, witli whitish spots ; 

 primary-coverts similar, but having greyish spots ; quills 

 dusky, outer webs of the primaries margined at the base with 

 green and barred with white ; those of the secondaries par- 

 tially or entirely green, and having indistinct greyish spots ; 

 inner webs spotted or partially barred with white; shafts 

 brownish black; rump and upper tail-coverts bright green, 

 the feathers margined and tipped with chrome-yellow ; tail 

 black, edged at the base with olive-yellow, and barred with 

 buffy white, the central ones obliquely so, dwarf feather paler 

 and greener; shafts black at the tip, dusky brown at the 

 base ; nasal plumes black ; base of the forehead and outer 

 edge of the crown black, slightly varied with grey ; forehead, 

 crown, and occiput crimson, bases of the feathers leaden 

 grey varied with black, bases of the nuchal ones black ; a spot 

 in front of the eye, and a short streak behind it, black ; a 

 broad yellowish-white superciliary stripe, and another from 



