NO. 1318. BIRDS OF NORTHWEST SUMATRA— RICHMOND. 515 



the feathers; secondaries obscurely and very narrowly tipped with 

 white; under surface of inner primaries largely white on basal half of 

 inner webs (some of the secondaries also edged with white). Tail 

 black, the middle pair of feathers washed with bluish gray, except at 

 the tip; some of the other feathers edged with gray, and all of them 

 tipped with white, the middle feathers very narrowly so, the white 

 becoming more extensive toward the outermost pair, on which there 

 is a narrow white line bordering the shaft on the outer web, extending 

 almost to the base. 



Length, 203; wing, 101; tail, 85; tarsus, 21; culmen, 11 (bill, from 

 gape, 21) mm. "Iris clear brown; bill black, pale brown beneath, 

 at base." 



Another female, apparently a younger bird, is less distinctly barred 

 on the breast, abdomen, and sides, these areas being much suffused 

 with gray. 



In this species the color of the under parts suggests that of the 

 lower breast in Graucalus sumMrensis (typical); on the upper parts C. 

 com])ta is of a darker and clearer color. 



This species is related to C. neglecta, but is darker above, much 

 more strongly barred below, has a distinct white superciliary stripe, 

 etc. 



PERICROCOTUS FLAMMIFER Hume. 



\_Pericrocotus\ flammifer Hume, Stray Feathers, III, No. 4, May, 1875, p. 321, note 

 (Pakchan, Tenasserim). 



Ten specimens, from Simalur, where "common." 



The males are identical in color with P. flammifer irom. Tenasserim 

 and Trong, but they average slightly larger. I have no females for 

 comparison with the three contained in the present collection, but 

 these appear to be very dark above (almost slaty black, with a slight 

 gloss), not "ashy brown tinged with green," as described by Oates.^ 



Length, males, 190-207; wing, 90-91; tail, 81.5-88 mm. Females 

 are smaller, measuring, length, 190-197; wing, 87-89; tail, 80-82 mm. 

 " Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black." 



PERICROCOTUS IGNEUS Blyth. 



P\^ericrocotus] igneus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XV, 1846 ( 1847 ?) , p. 309 

 (Malacca). 



Two males, from Simalur, 



These have rather long wings (78-80 mm.), and the two middle pairs 

 of rectrices are wholly black. In the descriptions of P. igneus^ given 

 by both Sharpe and Gates, the two central feathers are said to be 

 black, the next pair with an "orange-red mark at the tip,"^ or "with 

 some red at the tip."'' 



« Birds Brit. Burmah, I, p. 237. 6 Sharpe, Catal. Birds, IV, p. 78. 



'^ Oates, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, I, p. 485. 



