160 Mr. E. Ilargitt on the Genus Geciiius. 



margin, these spots on the inner feathers extending along 

 their whole length ; the outer webs of the secondaries barred 

 with drab-grey, tinged Avith green, the inner webs being 

 transversely spotted with white on the margin along the 

 whole length of the feather ; shafts dusky brown ; tail yel- 

 lowish cream-colour, narrowly barred with blackish brown, 

 the basal margin of the central feathers washed with yel- 

 lowish olive, the lateral feathers yellow at the tip ; dwarf 

 feather barred dusky olive and whitish, slightly washed with 

 green; shafts slaty black, tliose of the outer feathers browner. 

 (The head is very much damaged, but it has every appearance 

 of having been similar to G. squamatus ; the top of the head 

 is red and the malar stripe is black and white.) Throat and 

 chest uniform dull yellowish, with a green tinge ; the re- 

 mainder of the under surface of the body and under tail- 

 coverts yellowish white, the feathers of the underparts having 

 a thread-like intermarginal line or squamate marking of 

 blackish olive, these markings being paler on the abdomen ; 

 under wing-coverts yellowish white, transversely varied with 

 black ; imderside of the tail washed with yellow, this colour 

 being very brilliant on the tips of the feathers. Total length 

 13 inches, culmen 1"8, wing G'5, tail 4*7, tarsus 1*2 ; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0*82, outer posterior 0'82, 

 inner anterior 7, inner posterior 0'4'2. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence 

 of red on the head. As the head, neck, upper back, and 

 wing-coverts are much damaged in the male, the following 

 is a description of these parts taken from the female : — Nasal 

 plumes black ; forehead, crown, occiput, and nape intense 

 black, the bases of the feathers leaden grey ; the face creamy 

 grey, with a narrow black line behind the eye, tlie lores 

 creamy white ; superciliary stripe, also a stripe under the ear- 

 coverts, creamy white ; cheeks white, striped with black ; chin 

 and throat creamy buff, shading into yellowish cream-colour 

 on the chest, and greenish on the side of the neck ; hind 

 neck and upper back pale green, the feathers of the latter 

 having a central V-shaped dusky marking ; wing-coverts 

 pale green, barred with a darker shade of green, as in the male. 



