8. PERICEOCOTUS. 77 



Muscicapa peregrinus, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 574. 



Pericrocotiis peregrinus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 282 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



XV. p. 310; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. I'J.S ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 356; 



Horsf. i<, Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 140 ; Gould, B. Asia, 



pt. ix. ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 423 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 3-35 ; HoMsw. 



r. Z. S. 1872, p. 438 ; Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 177, 1874, p. 209, 



1875, p. 96 ; id. Nests SfC. Ind. B. p. 184 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 



p. 145 ; Sharpe, Str. F. 1876, p. 209 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 179; 



Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 315; Hume >S- Dui-iso7i, Str. F. 1878, p. 212. 

 Pericrocotus malabaricus, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 182. 



Adult male. Upper surface of body ashy grey, the rump bright 

 vermilion, as well as the upper tail-coverts ; tail black, the four 

 outer feathers orange towards the tip, decreasing in size towards 

 the inner feathers ; wing-coverts black, edged with dull grey, the 

 greater series with a tiny orange tip ; quills black, inclining to grey 

 towards the tips, the bases to the inner primaries conspicuous!}" 

 orange-red, forming an alar speculum, two of these feathers with 

 an additional streak of orange along the outer web ; a very narrow 

 frontal line, lores, sides of face, and throat ashy black : the breast 

 vermilion, washed with orange and shading off paler on the flanks, 

 the centre of the abdomen whitish, the under taU-coverts with a 

 yellowish tinge ; under wing-coverts and edge of the wing yellow, 

 some of the greater coverts with ashy black bases ; thighs ashy 

 black ; bill and legs black ; iris brown. Total length 6 inches, cul- 

 men 0-45, wing 2-.55, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Unlike the male : light grey above, the scapulars 

 and wing-coverts uniform with the back ; throat white, the rest of 

 the under surface yellowish, deepening on the flanks and much 

 brighter on the under wing-coverts ; quills lighter and more brown 

 than in the male, the primaries with narrow whitish edgings, the 

 yellow wing-spot as in the male : rump vermilion ; tail as in the 

 male. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-75, tail 31, 

 tarsus 0"6. 



Obs. The examples from Southern India have blacker throats than 

 those from Nepal, but specimens from the Central Pro^•inces seem 

 to be intermediate. The Javau birds have grey throats, but the 

 Ceylonese specimens have this part black. Mr. Hume's remarks, 

 where he proposes to separate the northern birds as P. pere/jrinus 

 (L.) and the southern ones as P. nudaharicus (Gm.), are to be con- 

 sulted (Str. F. 1877, p. 182). 



Hah. India and Ceylon, Burmese countries, Cochin China, An- 

 daman Islands, Java. 



a. P. peregrinus, L. 

 a,b. (S 2 ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[p.]. 

 c. $ ad. sk. Lower HiUs, Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esc[. [P.]. 



rf.2ad.sk. Thayetmyo, Pegu. W.T.Blauford,Esq.[P.]. 



e. (J, f-h. 2 ad. sk. Saigon,Cochiu China. M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



f. (^ ad., k. (^ juv. sk. W. Java. A. li. Wallace, Esq. [O.J. 

 /. Pull. sk. Java. Piu-cba»ed. 



m,n. cJ ad. sk. West Java (E. C. F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



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