Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. J 67 



pp. 14, 68; Armstr. op. cit. 1876, p. 310; Hume, op. cit. 

 1877, p. 113; id. & Davison, op. cit. 1878, p. 136; Hume, 

 op. cit. 1879, pp. 52, 160; Biugh. op. cit 1880, p. 163 ; Gates, 

 op. cit. X. 191 (1882). 



Gecinus weberi, Miill. Orn. Ins. Salanga, p. 69 (1882). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, bright Yello^vi^ll 

 olive ; wing-coverts slightly darker, the half-concealed por- 

 tions of the mediau and greater series showing whitish bars ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts browuish black, with a few 

 small white spots ; quills black, the outer webs of the pri- 

 maries liaving angular spots or notches of white, those of the 

 secondaries being more or less green, with indistinct lighter 

 cross markings; the inner webs, of all, notched or spotted 

 with white ; a few of the inner quills having both webs yel- 

 lowish olive ; shafts black ; rump chrome-yellow ; upper tail- 

 coverts yellowish olive ; tail black, the feathers notched upon 

 the base of both webs with pale brown or buffy white ; the two 

 outermost having minute brown spots along the whole margin 

 of the outer webs, the tip of the inner web being notched 

 with the same ; shafts black, those of the outer feathers dark 

 brown ; nasal plumes black ; forehead, crown, and occiput 

 scarlet, the bases of the feathers dark leaden grey, nearly 

 black on the occiput ; a black line on the edge of the fore- 

 head and crown ; lores whitish, minutely spotted with black ; 

 a superciliary stripe running as far the occiput, space under 

 the eye, and another stripe passing under the ear-covei-ts, 

 white ; ear-coverts ashy grey ; and above white, finely streaked 

 with blackish ; large malar patch black, the feathers edged 

 with white ; hind neck and sides of the neck bright yellowish 

 olive; chin and upper throat very pale brown, shading into yel- 

 lowish olive on the lower throat, fore neck, and chest, the 

 feathers having a dusky or dusky olive intermargiiialline and 

 occasional shaft-streak, giving to the whole a striated appear- 

 ance; underparts brownish wdiite, washed with green, and 

 having similar markings, these being more dusky brown on the 

 abdomen ; under tail-coverts whitish, with a broad deep olive 

 intermarginal line and shaft-streak ; tibial plumes pale dusky 

 brown, with lighter spots ; under Aving-coverts and axillarics. 



