80 CAMl'OPHAGIDJi. 



a.b. (S, c. 9 ad.sk. Caslimere. E. M. Langworthy, Eaq. 



[P.]. 



<^>«- dj/. /;• ?a<i. sk. N.W.Himalayas. Capt. Stackbouse Pin- 

 will [P.]. 



h. Pull. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.;. 



i. (5 imm. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. . 



k, I. cJ ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P-. • 



7n-o. (S, p. $ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, E.sq. [P.]. 



q. c? ad. sk. Right bank of Tapeng Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



river, Feb. 5, 1875. 



1 1 . Pericrocotus neglectus. 



Pericrocotus neglectus, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 189 ; id. Sr Damson, 

 S. F. 1878, p. 211. 



"Clearly a miniature of P. brevirostris, and like it has the first 

 four primaries in both sexes plain on the outer webs. The total 

 length varies from 6-5 to 6-8 ; the tail from 3-0 to 3-25 ; the wings 

 varied — males 3-25, 3-3; females 3-2, 3-37, 3-32. Seeing, how- 

 ever, that the eastern form of P. brevirostris is smaller than the 

 western, I should not have separated these birds, though smaller 

 than the smallest Sikhim and Shillong specimens, merely on account 

 of difference of size. Nor would the proportionally much larger 

 bill have satisfied me of their distinctness, nor even the fact that in 

 both my males the black of the throat appears to descend further 

 on the breast than in any one of forty-six males of P. brevirostris, 

 as this might be due to some stretching of the skin in preparing it ; 

 but when with these differences is coupled a female of a wholly 

 different type, with the upper surface of a much darker grey, and 

 with the cbin, throat, and entire lower surface of the rich bright 

 hue of adult female P. speciosus, a hue not approached, as regards 

 chin and throat at any rate, by any one of the twenty-seven female 

 P. brevirostris now before me, I could not avoid recognizing what is 

 clearly a distinct species." (Hume.) 



Hab. Central Tenasserim hills. 



12. Pericrocotus miniatus. 



Muscicapa miniata, Temm. PI. Col. 156. 



Pericrocotus miniatus, F. Bote, I.'fis, 1826, p. 972 ; G-ray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 282 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. -357 ; Cab. Mus. Hem. Th. i. p. 60 ; Grm/, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 336; Sharpe, Str. F. 1876, p. 210 ; Htime, Str. F. 

 1877, p. 192. 



Acis miniata. Lesson, Ti-ait4, p. 388. 



Phoenieoruis miniata, Jerd. III. Ind. Orn. text to pi. xi. 



Adult male. Black, with a slight blue gloss, tlie sides of the face 

 and throat also black ; rest of under surface of body scarlet vermilion, 

 the thighs blackish, with pale rosy tips ; the under wing-coverts 

 rather paler vermilion than the breast, the lower series ashy black ; 

 wings black, the greater coverts entirely vermilion, except the in- 

 nermost, which are black with red edgings ; quills with a very broad 

 vermilion band, increasing in extent along the primaries, this colour 

 absent on the outer wob of the first to the fourth of these quills and 



