114 LANIID.E. 



V. 2 iid. St. IlinialaTas. Major-Gen. Ilardwicke. 



?f. (5 ad. sk. Himalayas. J. Uould, Esi^. (Type of species.) 



2. Ptererythrius aeralatus. 



Pteruthius peralatus, Tichcll, Jvuni. As. Soc. Beng. 185-5, xxiv. 

 p. -HSl ; Uli/ffi, ll'i.% lc<U7, p. 32; Gruij, Iland-l. B. i. p. .'314, 

 no. 4688; Bbjth ».y ll'dkleii, Birds of Bunnali, p. lOU; Guiihl, B. 

 Asia, fol., pt. xxviii. ; Anderson, Zoul. E.cp. Yun-nan, Avvs, p. (328, 

 pi. 47 ; Hume, Sir. F. ii. p. 479, v. p. 114, vi. p. 308, 1871), p. 104. 



Adult male. Yerj- like the adult male of P. ernthropterus, but 

 difters from it in having the outer weh of the three innermost secon- 

 daries not entirely chestnut-brown, but dull golden yellow and with 

 narrow black tips as in P.Jlavi!<mpis ; under surface, except the abdo- 

 men and flanks, light ashy grey ; lower mandible and basal edges of 

 upper mandible along commissure pale blue, rest of bill black ; feet 

 fleshy white ; claws pale brown to black ; " irides varying con- 

 siderably, slaty grey, pale greenish blue, and deep brown " {Hume). 

 Total length (v3 inches, culmen U-7, wing 3-4, tail 2-4, tarsus 1-05. 

 Of the female Mr. Hume gives the following description from a 

 specimen procured in the forests of Mooleyit : — " The stripe over and 

 behind the eye is less marked, and greyish white ; the lores are very 

 pale grey ; the forehead and crown are pure clear grey, shaded on 

 the occiput with olivaceous ; the entire back, scapulars, and lesser 

 wing-coverts pale greenish grey, faintly fulvous on the rump, and. 

 generally purer grey on the longest upper tail-coverts. The females 

 vary a good deal in the shade of the upper surface, which is greyer 

 in some, greener in others ; the wings are black : the primaries and 

 most of the secondaries narrowly tipped with white ; all but the first 

 three primaries margined with golden olive, the third to the seventh, 

 however, being margined with white below the emargiuations ; pri- 

 mary and greater coverts blackish brown ; both webs of tertiaries and 

 a portion of the outer webs of secondaries and their greater coverts 

 greenish golden olive ; the tertiaries usually with a more or less 

 distinct chestnut spot at their tips ; tail-feathers black, tipped with 

 dull yellow, the central ones very narrowly (in some obsoletely), the 

 lateral ones more and more broadly ; almost the whole of both webs 

 of the central tail-feathers, except just inside the yellow tippings, 

 and the greater portion of the outer webs of the lateral tail-feathers 

 and sometimes of both webs of the pair next the central feathers, 

 suffused with the same greenish golden olive as the wings. The 

 lower parts are greyish white on chin, throat, and fore neck, and 

 very pale fulvescent white on breast, abdomen, vent, and lower tail- 

 coverts, generally more or less shaded browner, or even slightly 

 olivaceous on the sides and flanks. The colour of the lower surface 

 varies a good deal in different specimens : in some it is browner and 

 more fulvescent than I have described, and the brownish fulvescent 

 shade extends over the fore neck right up to the throat." " Bill 

 above black, below lavender ; legs dull white ; claws dark brown ; 

 iris deep lavender " ( Wardlaw Bamsay). 

 Hah. Burmah. 



