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The gray minivet differs from the roseate race chiefly in its com- 

 plete lack of lipochromatic coloration. The adult male has the lores 

 blackish; the anterior half of the crown, the chin, and the throat 

 white, this color extending onto the sides of the neck behind the ear 

 coverts to form an incomplete collar; the posterior crown, upper 

 back, and scapulars ashy gray; the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts pale ashy brown ; the central pair of rectrices deep brown, 

 the remaining pairs with an outwardly increasing amount of brownish 

 white ; the wings blackish brown, with the innermost secondaries and 

 a barely indicated wing bar ashy brown; the underparts white, suf- 

 fused (especially on the breast) with pale ashy brown. The adult 

 female differs from the male in having the entire crown ashy gray, 

 paler anteriorly; in lacking the partial collar on the sides of the 

 neck; in having a whitish wing bar. Immature birds resemble the 

 adult female but have the innermost secondaries narrowly margined 

 with white and the wing bar (at least in the female) suffused with 

 yellow. « 



PERICROCOTUS PEREGRINUS VIVIDUS Stuart Baker 



Burmese Small Minivet 



Perecrocotns [sic] peregrinus vividus Stuart Bakeb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 

 40, 1920, p. 114 (Attaran River, Burma). 



Pericrocotus peregrinus, Gtldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Sirfm, 1915, p. 

 168 (listed) ; Kungl. Svenska Vet-Akad. Handl, 1916, p. 73 (Khun Tan) ; 

 Ibis, 1920, p. 570 ("Northern Siam"). 



Pericrocotus peregrinus vividus, db Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1929, p. 551 (Doi Suthep). 



Pericrocotus cinnamomeus vividus, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1931, p. 147 (Doi Suthep) ; 1936, p. 100 (Doi Suthep).— de Schauensee, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 225 (Doi Suthep). 



The status and distribution in our provinces of this small minivet 

 are far from clear. In the neighborhood of Chiang Mai it has been 

 found only in the deciduous and mixed-deciduous forests of Doi Su- 

 thep from 1,200 to 2,800 feet, between October 17 (1936) and the end 

 of March (1932). I have collected it in dry, lowland forest at Chom 

 Thong, Sala Mae Tha, and Ban Mae Mo and on a low, waterless 

 hill (Doi Kasu) near Ban Sa-iap. Gyldenstolpe, however, who took a 

 pair on Doi Khun Tan, April 28, 1914, states that "most often it was 

 observed . . . visiting the pine forests on the tops of the higher 

 hills . . ." The species is not known to be migratory, but it should 

 be noted that there is no record for its occurrence anywhere in the 

 North between April 28 and September 1. 



The only indication of this bird's breeding in our provinces was 

 given by a male with greatly enlarged gonads, taken by me from a 

 flock on Doi Suthep at 2,400 feet, March 1, 1932. All specimens 

 collected between September 1 and November 9 are in molt. 



