THE BIRDS OF NORTHERN THAILAND 277 



lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts bright olive-yellow, not 

 golden-orange ; the underparts canary yellow, not orange-golden. 



PERICROCOTUS SOLARIS SOLARIS Blyth 



Indian Gray-throated Minivet 



P[ericrocotus] Solaris Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 15, 1S46, p. 310 



(Darjiling). 

 Pericrocotus Solaris griseigularis, Gyidenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. 



Handl., 1916, p. 73 (Khun Tan) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 570 (Khun Tan).— de Schatj- 



ensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 192S, p. 5G9 (Doi Suthep). 

 Pericrocotus Solaris Solaris, Deignan, Journ. Siarn Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, 



p. 146 (Doi Suthep). — Chasen and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. 



Suppl., 1932, p. 241 (Doi Suthep).— Dkignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. 



Suppl., 1936, p. 100 (Doi Suthep). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



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

 Pericrocotus Solaris Solaris [partim], Rhey, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 270, 



(Doi Langka [partim], Khun Tan, Doi Hua Mot). 



With the addition of Doi Ang Ka, the localities listed above give 

 the complete range of this minivet in Thailand so far as it is now 

 known. It is fairly common at the edge of the evergreen, in the open 

 hill-forest, and among the pines, chiefly from 4,500 to 5,500 feet but 

 occurring on Doi Khun Tan as low as 4,000 feet and on Doi Ang Ka 

 up to 7,000 feet. 



Two females in postjuvenal molt were taken on July 14 and August 

 23; two males assuming the plumage of the old adult, July 14 and 

 September 4. A long series collected between July 10 and November 

 20 are in postnuptial molt. An apparently adult female of April 25 

 is molting the feathers of the throat. 



My specimens had the irides brown ; the bill, feet, toes, and claws 

 black. 



The adult male resembles the adult males of the preceding species 

 but differs from them in having the crown, upper back, scapulars, and 

 upper wing coverts slaty black with little gloss, not glossy blue-black ; 

 the red portions of the plumage bright red-orange (the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts orange-red), not scarlet or scarlet-crim- 

 son; the throat and sides of the head and neck gray (the throat 

 strongly suffused with orange). The adult female is scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from that of P. e. ethologus but differs, inter alia, in 

 wholly lacking yellow on the forehead and in having the second inner- 

 most pair of rectrices tipped yellow, not black. 



PERICROCOTUS ROSEUS ROSEUS (Vieillot) 



Indian Roseate Minivet 



Muscicapa rosea Vieillot, Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, nouv. 6d., 

 vol. 21, 1818, pp. 486-487 (Bengal). 



