Mr. E, Hargitt on the Getius Gecinus. 159 



the wing-coverts are mixed with green. All three are 

 females, and in two out of the three some traces of green are 

 visible among the grey on the lower back, so that it may be 

 only a phase of plumage of G. squamatusJ' Dr. Scully {t, c. 

 p. 430) observes that the specimens referred to by Capt. 

 Marshall are birds about a year old, with the feathers worn 

 and faded, and which, at the next moult, would assume their 

 usual green colour. I have seen one of these birds, which is 

 in the Hume collection, and I am of the same opinion as 

 Dr. Scully. In the British Museum are specimens from 

 Cashmere (Langworthy), and Jerdon also recorded it from 

 that country. Dr. Leith Adams (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 173), 

 in his notes on this species, states that it is found in the 

 " woods and forests of Cashmere and the lesser ranges ; pretty 

 common ; solitary in its habits. '^ In the British Museum 

 there is an example from Afghanistan {Griffiths). Tytler, 

 in his " Notes on the Birds collected by Capt. Beavan " 

 (Ibis, 1868, p. 202), observes, " Between Simla and Mussoorie, 

 common at heights of from 5000 to 9000 feet.^' Jerdon 

 found this Woodpecker in the valley of the Sutlej. Hodgson 

 obtained the young birds in Nepal, and, according to Jerdon, 

 it is common in Kumaon. 



9. Gecinus gorii. 



Gecinus squamatus (non Vigors), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 102. 



Gecinus gorii, Hargitt, Ibis, 1887, p. 74. 



Adult male. Back pale green, with a few dusky V-shaped 

 markings ; rump and upper tail-coverts of the same colour 

 as the back, but the feathers tipped with chrome-yellow ; 

 scapulars and wing-coverts pale green, barred with dusky 

 green, the former having a few dusky V-shaped markings 

 like the back ; bastard -wing black, spotted with creamy 

 white on both webs; primary-coverts dusky black and simi- 

 larly spotted, but with a greyer shade of colour ; quills dusky 

 black, the outer webs of the primaries broadly barred with 

 creamy white, and more or less washed with green on the 

 inner feathers, the inner webs spotted with white on the 



