156 Mr. E. Hargitt o// the Genus Gecinus. 



the feathers having lost their dusky-black centres ; there is 

 more red on the top of the head, and above the white super- 

 ciliary stripe there is a blackish-brown one bordering the red 

 crown ; the spotting on the side of the neck is less marked, 

 and this, as well as the chin, throat, and chest are of a richer 

 buff-colour, the underparts being also more of a buffy yel- 

 lowish ; the soft parts are given as follows : " legs and feet 

 greenish horny; irides brown; bill dusky yellow on upper 

 maiidible, yellow on lower mandible." 



Adidt female. Diffei's from the male in the absence of red on 

 the crown and occiput, these parts being black, the feathers 

 of the former margined with smoky grey, and having a 

 streaked appearance, the bases being leaden grey ; chin and 

 throat lighter : " irides, a circle of daik pinkish red round 

 the black pupil, surrounded by a second ring of light pink " 

 {R. C. Beavan) : " bill dusky above at base, the rest yel- 

 lowish ; legs greenish plumbeous " {Jerdon). Total length 

 13"5 inches, culmen 1 9, wing (j-35, tail 4*5, tarsus 1"3. 



Hodgson, in his series of unpublished coloured drawings of 

 Nepalese birds, contained in the library of the Zoological De- 

 partment of the British Museum, figures upon the second plate 

 bearing the number 148 (there are two with the same 

 number), under the title of Brachylophus squamatus v. nejia- 

 lensis, two birds, which are certainly not the adult of G. squa- 

 matus, and resemble the young of that species except in one 

 or two points. I may briefly describe the specimens figured. 

 The female has the rump briUiant yeltow; the throat and 

 chest with varied and squamate markings of black; the 

 upper mandible bluish, the under mandible yellow. The 

 male is similarly marked on the throat, and has the bill 

 blackish brown. These birds closely resemble an unmis- 

 takable young bird in my collection, except that in the latter 

 the rump is not brilliant yellow^, and they are also similar to 

 a specimen from Murree in the British JNIuseum, and which 

 I take to be also a young bird, but in this the bill is yellow; 

 this, however, may not have been so in life. Herr A. v. Pel- 

 zeln (Ibis, 1868, p. 320) records a male and a female bird 

 collected by Stoliczkaat Pangi, North-we>t Himalayas, which 



