182 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



ning above the ear-coverts ; cliin and throat dingy buffy 

 white, the feathers tipped with dull greenish; chest and 

 breast dull olive, the sides of the latter barred with whitish ; 

 the remainder of the underparts dull olive, barred and spotted 

 with whitish, more uniform on the middle of the abdomen ; 

 flanks and thighs broadly barred with yellowish white ; under 

 tail-coverts dusky olive, tipped and barred with dull white ; 

 under wing-coverts yellowish white, margined and barred 

 with olive, and varied with dusky brown; axillaries white, 

 tipped with yellow and barred with dusky brown: ''iris 

 sombre red or brownish red ; bill blackish, with the sides of 

 the lower mandible and margin of the upper, next the gape, 

 yellow ; legs and feet olive-greenish or dusky sap-green " 

 {W. V. Legge). Total length 9'5 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 

 4*65, tail 3'25, tarsus 0*85; toes (without claws) — outer an- 

 terior 0'68, outer posterior 0'63, inner anterior 0*55, inner 

 posterior 0*28. 



Young male (March 17th). Resembles the adult male in 

 general coloration and markings, but has the face and neck 

 more dusky, the chin and throat spotted with white, the 

 underparts are spotted with white, even on the flanks and 

 thighs, whereas in the adult bird these are barred with white, 

 and the white on many of the feathers of the underparts has 

 also a barred character rather than a spotted one. In this 

 young male the red is appearing on the cheek-feathers. A 

 young male from "between Goodalore and Nellacotta, 

 Wynaad, March 28th" [W. Davison), also in the Hume col- 

 lection, has the soft parts as follows : — " irides wood-brown ; 

 lower mandible from base to angle of gonys, and gape dull 

 yellow ; rest of bill dull black ; legs and feet dirty dull green ; 

 claws plumbeous green." 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence 

 of crimson on the forehead and crown, these parts being 

 blackish olive, also in being without the crimson cheek- 

 patch ; the back of a lighter green, and the upper tail-coverts 

 without a trace of red. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0*95, 

 wing 4"65, tail 3* 15, tarsus 0"85. 



The Hume collection contains two very interesting spe- 



