190 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Gecinus. 



and occiput velvety black ; a narrow white stripe from behind 

 the eye, becoming tinged with yellow as it approaches the 

 side of the neck; chin, throat, and upper part of the side of 

 the neck bright gamboge-yellow, the rest of the neck be- 

 coming greenish, this colour spreading over the breast; 

 underparts greyish, with small dusky V-shaped markings 

 formed by an intermarginal line ; the dark markings on the 

 thighs more defined and barred ; under tail-coverts deep 

 dusky, lighter on the margins, and having large and well- 

 defined V-shaped white markings; under wing-coverts white 

 tinged with yellow near the edge of the wing, with irregular 

 bars and V-shaped black markings ; axillaries white, with a 

 faint dusky bar near the tip : " legs and feet dirty brownish 

 or plumbeous green ; bill dark horny brown or blackish, 

 yellowish at base of lower mandible; irides pale to bright 

 gamboge-yellow " {Hume S^ Davison^. Total length 13 inches, 

 culmen 1*4, wing 6*15, tail 4*5, tarsus I'lS; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0*8, outer posterior 0*75, inner an- 

 terior 0'65, inner posterior 0*45 . 



Young male. Less brilliant in colour than the adult male, 

 but in other respects resembling it. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence 

 of the scarlet crown, this being deep velvety black, like the 

 rest of the head : " legs and feet dirty brownish green ; bill 

 horny brown, upper mandible from nostrils to base, and 

 lower mandible from angle of gonys to base, with gape, 

 greenish yellow ; irides from pale to gamboge-yellow " 

 {Hume). Total length 12'75 inches, culmen 1'4, wing 6"35, 

 tail 4' 7, tarsus 1'15. 



This beautiful species was first described under the name 

 of Gecinus erythropyg'ius by Mr. D. G. Elliot (Nouv. Arch, 

 du Mus., Bull. i. p. 7Q, pi. iii., 1865) ; the specimen was a 

 female, and had been procured in Cochin China by M. 

 Germain. Major Wardlaw Ramsay, during his stay in British 

 Burmau, procured both sexes of this species a few miles to 

 the north of Tonghoo, and, believing the bird to be new, 

 bestowed upon it, strange to say, the same title as Mr. Elliot 

 had given to his Cochin-China bird, viz. Gecinus erythro- 



