444 NOVELTIES. 



The lores, forehead, sinciput, a broad circle round the eye ; the 

 ear-coverts, chin and throat pure white, only the feathers of 

 the sinciput with black central streaks at the tips; crown, 

 occiput, nape, and a broad mandibular stripe on either side, 

 0'8 long and 0'45, or thereabouts, broad, velvet black ; upper 

 part of the breast, sides of neck behind the white ear-coverts, 

 and upper back, a deep vinacous brown ; middle back paler ; 

 scapulars and lower back (which latter is palest) a pale 

 vinaceous rufescent, the ordinary Jay color in fact ; rump, vent, 

 upper and lower tail-coverts white ; tail black, with faint blue 

 barring at the base, hidden by the upper tail-coverts ; lower 

 breast abdomen, flanks and tibial plumes pale rufous ; axillaries 

 and wing lining, (except lower greater primary coverts which 

 are a grey brown like the under surface of the quills) a sort of 

 dull chestnut ; winglet and primary coverts black, barred with 

 shaded blue in the usual Jay fashion ; primaries black, all but 

 the first margined on their outer w r ebs (the later ones only 

 towards their tips) with dull white ; coverts along the ulna 

 dark chestnut ; secondaries and their greater coverts black, the 

 former conspicuously barred on the outer webs but not quite 

 to their tips, with dark shading to very pale blue, or almost 

 bluish white ; tertiaries velvet black, the second, as I make out, 

 deep maroon chestnut except at the tip ; there is only one such, 

 feather in each wing. 



Gecinus nigrigenis,* Hume. Pro. A.S.B., May 



1st, 1874. 



The entire top, back and sides of the head and nape blacJc in the female; 

 in the male similar but the crown crimson; chin, throat, sides of neck 

 and breast bright turmeric yellow ; abdomen and rest of lower and 

 tipper parts much as in striolatus but rump crimson. 



This is quite the most beautiful of all our Indian Gecini, It 

 seems to be very common about Pahchan, Kollidoo, Darguin, 

 and other parts of the Salween and neighbouring districts of 

 the Tenasserim provinces. 



* Since this was in type I see that on the 21st April a Wood-pecker was exhibited on 

 behalf of my friend Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay at a meeting of the Zoo, obtained 

 about 100 miles north of the locality whence my specimens came, under the name 

 of Geeinws erythropygius. This may perhaps be the same bird. 



