173 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Gemis Geciiius. 



Scullv; torn. cit. pp. 247, 368; Butler, B. Sind &c. and Mount 

 Aboo', p. 19 (1879) ; id. B. S. Bomb. Pros. p. 24 (1880) ; id. 

 Str. F. 1880, p. 386; Legge, B. Ceyl. p. 194 (1880) ; Gates, 

 Str. F. X. p. 191 (1882) ; W. Davison, torn, cit.- p. 355 ; Salv. 

 Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 390, no. 1911 (1882) ; Gates, B. Brit. 

 Burm. ii. p. 49 (1883). 



Gecinus wanthopygius, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 127 (1850); 

 id. Consp. Voiucr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854) ; Reichenb. Handb. 

 Scans. Picinte, p. 350, no. 802 (1854). 



Chloropicus striolatus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 131-, 

 pi. Ixxvii. figs. 1 &2 (1862). 



Adult male. Above bright yellowish olive, the feathers 

 margined with brighter yellow ; wing-coverts uniform and 

 darker ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky brown, the 

 former notched with white, the latter edged externally with 

 green and spotted with dingy white ; quills dusky brown, the 

 primaries having irregular white markings or bars upon the 

 outer webs, those of the secondaries being partially or entirely 

 yellowish olive, spotted or narrowly barred with dingy 

 whitish; the inner webs notched and spotted with white; a 

 few of the inner quills entirely yellowish olive; shafts brownish 

 black ; rump and upper tail-coverts green, the feathers mar- 

 gined with deep chrome-yellow ; tail blackish brown, the 

 basal portion of the feathers margined with green and faintly 

 notched with light dusky brown; penultimate feather barred 

 to the tip, and the dwarf one tipped with green ; shafts black at 

 the tip, brown at the base ; nasal plumes dull black ; feathers 

 on the base of the forehead dusky, edged with yellowish buff ; 

 crown and occiput scarlet, the bases of the feathers leaden 

 grey, those on the edge of the crown being black ; a white 

 superciliary stripe running on to the nape, and becoming 

 streaked with dusky ; Ioits, and a stripe under the ear-coverts, 

 white ; ear-coverts dusky brown ; cheeks Avhitish, striped 

 with dark olive and yellowish ; rest of the face whitish 

 streaked with dusky brown ; side of the neck and hind neck 

 yellowish olive, strij)ed with darker olive ; chin, throat, 

 and fore neck yellow, streaked with olive ; the bases of the 

 feathers white ; entire under surface yellowish white, the 



