GECINUS FLAVIKOSTKIS. 



(YELLOW-BILLED GREEN WOODPECKER.) 



Gecinus squamatus (nee Vigors), C. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 102. 



" Gecinus Jlavirostris, Zarudny," Menzbier, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. pt. i. p. 440 (1886). 



Gecinus gorii, Hargitt, Ibis, 1887, p. 74 ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 45. 



Gecinus zarudnoi, Menzbier, Ibis, 1887, p. 301. 



Figura unica. 

 Aitcbison, Trans. Linn. Soc, 2nd ser. Zool. v. pi. vi. fig. 1. 



J 1 ad. similis G. squamato, sed supra dilutius viridis : tectricibus alarum et scapularibus saturatiore viridi 

 transfasciatis : plumis corporis inferioris squamosi linea. nigra, intramarginali tenui ornatis : caudse 

 fasciis transversis albis latis, fasciis nigris angustioribus (his in G. squamato latissimis, illis vero 

 angustioribus). {Hargitt.) 



$ ad. supra pallide viridis, plumis indistincte fusco squamatis : uropygio imo et supracaudalibus viridi-flavis : 

 alis et cauda, sicut in mare picturatis : mento et gula, sordide albidis, pectore et colli lateribus albidis 

 vix flavido-cervino lavatis : corpore reliquo subtus viridi-griseo nigro-fusco squamato : fronte, pileo et 

 nucha nigris, plumis nonnullis albido marginatis : stria, superciliari alba, supra nigro marginata, vitta 

 mystacali nigra albo notatt. 



Adult Male (Afghanistan, October 26th : type of Gecinus gorii). Above pale green, with a few dusky 

 V-shaped markings, the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts tipped with chrome-yellow; 

 scapulars and wing-coverts pale green, barred with dusky green, the former having a few dusky 

 V-shaped markings; bastard- wing black, spotted with creamy white on both webs; primary-coverts 

 dusky black and similarly spotted, but with a greyer shade of colour ; quills dusky black, the outer 

 web of the primaries broadly barred with creamy white, and more or less washed with green on the 

 inner feathers, the inner webs spotted with white on the margin ; the outer webs of the secondaries 

 barred with greenish grey, the inner webs being transversely spotted with white along the whole 

 margin; tail yellowish cream-colour, narrowly barred with blackish brown, the basal margin of the 

 central feathers washed with yellowish olive, the lateral feathers yellow at the tip. (The head is very 

 much damaged, but it has every appearance of having been similar to that of G. squamatus ; the top 

 of the head is red and the malar stripe is black and white.) Throat and chest uniform-dull greenish 

 yellow ; the under surface of the body and under tail-coverts yellowish white, the feathers of the 

 underparts having a thread-like intermarginal line or squamate marking of blackish olive ; under 

 wing-coverts yellowish white, transversely varied with black; underside of the tail washed with 

 yellow. Total length 13 inches, culmen l - 8, wing 6 - 5, tail 4 - 7, tarsus 1*2; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0'82, outer posterior - 82, inner anterior - 7, inner posterior - 42. {Hargitt.) 



Adult Female (A'i Macdjary, July 18th, 1886: type of Gecinus Jlavirostris). Forehead, crown, and nape 

 deep black, many of the feathers with white edges ; nasal plumes and a narrow stripe extending to the 



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