276 BULLETIN 186, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Pericrocotiis brevirostris neglectus [partim], de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1934, p. 224 (Doi Chiang Dao). 



The flame-colored minivet has been collected only on the mountains 

 listed above, but it should be looked for on other high peaks in the more 

 western districts. The normal range seems to be the evergreen from 

 4,000 to 4,600 feet, although it has been found during the cold weather 

 in the dry, deciduous forest at the very foot of Doi Suthep (about 1,000 

 feet). 



Here again nothing is recorded of the breeding season or of the 

 sequence of plumages. An adult pair from Doi Suthep, July 16, are in 

 postnuptial molt. Two red males from Doi Khun Tan, February 13 

 and 27, are undergoing molt of the feathers of head and throat. I 

 have been unable to find evidence of a first-nuptial dress, different from 

 that of older birds, in either P. brevirostris or P. e. c?*yptus. 



The present form is separated from brevirostris by a number of 

 characters that, if the two did not breed together over a large area, 

 would be considered of merely subspecific value. The adult male of 

 cryptus is distinguished from the adult male of the short-billed minivet 

 by having the red portions of the plumage a rather less intense scarlet- 

 crimson, the black portions (especially the throat) less glossed; a 

 narrow whitish or pink margin to the outer web of the first primary; 

 the red on the inner secondaries continued to the tip as a narrow margin 

 along the outer web. The adult female of cryptus is separated from 

 that of brevirostris by having the yellow on the head restricted to a 

 narrow frontal band, as well as by a number of other minor differences. 



Pericrocotiis Solaris ripponi, described from the Southern Shan 

 States by Stuart Baker (Fauna of British India, Birds, ed. 2, vol. 2, 

 1924, p. 327), may prove to be an earlier naming of this race. 



PERICROCOTUS ETHOLOGUS ETHOLOGUS Bangs and Phillips 



Chinese Flame-colored Minivet 



Pericrocotiis brevirostris ethologus Bangs and Phillips, Bull. Mus. Coinp. Zool., 



vol. 58, 1914, pp. 282-283 (Hsien Shan, Hupeh, China). 

 Pericrocotiis Solaris Solaris [partim], Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 270 



(Doi Langka [partim]). 



This minivet is known as a Thai bird only through two female speci- 

 mens: One collected by Smith at Doi Langka, November 18, 1930; the 

 other taken by me at Ban Mae Sai (Chiang Rai — Kengtung border), 

 January 20, 1937. It will quite possibly prove to be a fairly common 

 winter visitor, at least to Chiang Eai Province. 



The adult male of ethologus cannot be distinguished from that of 

 cryptus, even in the hand. The adult female differs from that of 

 cryptus in having the yellow frontal band broader and less clearly 

 defined ; the entire upper back dull olive-green, rather than gray ; the 



