162 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



Picus dimidiatus, Horsf, Gen. Cat. Jav. B. (1821) ; Valenc. 

 Diet. So. Nat. xl. p. 174 (1825) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 88, 

 add. sp. 5 (1827); Drap. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 507 (1828); 

 Temm. PI. Col. texte, 85^ livr. (1830) ; Less. Compl. BufF. ix. 

 p. 312 (1837). 



Gecinus dimidiatus, Boie^ Isis, 1831, p. 54-2; Gray, Gen. 

 B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; De Filippi, Cat. Mus. Mediol. p. 21, 

 no. 794 (1847) ; Blytli (pt), Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 58, 

 1.0. 262 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 127 (1850) ; id. 

 Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854) ; Reielienb. Handb. 

 Scans. Picinae, p. 350, no. 799, pi. dcxxi. figs. 4141, 4142 

 (1854), pt. ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 660, 

 no. 960 (1856-58) ; Sclionib. Ibis, 1864, p. 257; Vorderraan, 

 Batav. Vog. pt. 2, p. 19 (1882). 



Malacolophus dimidiatus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 308 

 (1837). 



Gecinus affinis, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.l. Co. ii. 

 p. 662, no. 964 (1856-58). 



Chtoropicus dimidiatus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 132, 

 pi. Ixxvi. figs. 4-6 (1862). 



Gecinus vittatus, Gray, List Pieid. Brit. Mus. p. 7Q (1868), 

 pt. ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 192, no. 8683 (1870), pt. ; Salvad. 

 Ucc. Born. p. 51 (1874) ; Tiraut, Ois. Basse-Cochiuchine, 

 p. 90 (1879); Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 390, no. 1910 

 (1882). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, bright yellowish 

 olive; wing-coverts uniform golden olive; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts brownish black, spotted with yellowdsh grey; 

 quills blackish brown, the primaries partially or entirely 

 margined on the outer webs with golden olive, and both webs 

 spotted with white ; the secondaries having their outer webs 

 golden olive, the inner webs spotted with white ; shafts 

 brownish black ; the feathers of the rump yellowish olive, 

 broadly tipped with light chrome-yellow ; tail and tail-shafts 

 black ; forehead, crown, and occiput scarlet, the concealed 

 portion of the feathers black, with leaden-grey bases ; a nar- 

 row baud of black at the base of the forehead, the latter^ as 

 well as the crown, being edged with black ; a white stripe 



