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than it is on the secondaries, and consequently showing a broader 

 black base ; forehead, feathers round the eye, and fore part of the 

 face bright yellow, the lores and hinder pait of the ear-coverts grey ; 

 rest of under surface bright yellow, thighs greyish. Total length 6-6 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-1, tail 3, tarsus 0-6. 

 Hab. Malayan peninsula ; Sumatra ; Borneo. 



a. $ ad. sk. Singapore. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. j , c, d. 2 ad. sk. Kessang, Malacca. M. Bouvier. 



«)/• d' ? ad., g. juv. sk. Sumatra. A. E,. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



h. $ ad. .sk. Tagora, Sarawak. Henry Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Pericrocotus flammeus. 



Muscicapa flammea, Forstei; IndUche Zool. p. 25 ; Gin. S. N. i. 



p. 942 ; Te7nm. PL Cul. 203 ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. p. 483. 

 Flammeoiis Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1 , p. 338. 

 Pericrocotus flammeus, F. Bote, Isis, 1828, p. 321 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 282 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 309 ; id. Cat. B. Mm. A.S.B. p. 192 ; 



£p. Cmsp. i. p. 357 ; Horsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. I. Co. i. 



p. 142; Goidd, B. Asia, pt. ix. ; Jerd. B. India, i. p. 420 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 334 ; Holdsic. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 438 ; Hume, Nests 



and Ef/ffs Ind. B. p. 182; Sharpe, Stray F. 1876, p. 208; Hume, 



5^/-. i^. 1877, p. 197. 

 Phcenicornis flammeus. Swains. Zool. III. 2nd ser. pi. 52 ; Jerd. El. 



Orn. pi. 11 ; id. Madr. Jotirn. x. p. 244. 

 Acis flammea, Lesson, Traite, p. 388. 

 Muscipeta flammea, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 85. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts fiery orange-red ; tail-feathers black, 

 orange-red at tip, this colour increasing in extent towards the outer- 

 most, the centre feathers entirely black, rayed under certain lights ; 

 wing-coverts glossy black, the edge of the wing orange, the greater 

 coverts broadly tipped with orange-red ; quiUs black, with a broad 

 band of orange-red near the base, separated by the blackish shafts ; 

 three inner secondaries with a spot of orange near the tip of the 

 outer web ; sides of the face and throat glossy black like the head ; 

 rest of under surface bright orange-red, with yellow bases to the 

 feathers, the under wing-coverts bright yellow ; thighs blackish ; 

 biU black ; legs brownish black ; iris dark brown. Total length 7-5 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-5, tail 3-75, tarsus 0-6. 



Female. Head, neck, back, and wing-coverts ashy, forehead nar- 

 rowly tinged with yellow ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 greenish yellow ; quiUs and tail dusky black, the former with a 

 yellow wing-spot, and the latter with the lateral tail-feathers 

 yellow. 



Hab. Hills of Southern India ; Ceylon. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Travancore. Capt. Biddulph [C.]. 



b. cJ ad. .ik. Madras. 



c. 2 a<i- sk. Ceylon. E. L. Layard, Esq. [CI. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Ceylon. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



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