492 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



461. PERICROCOTUS LEYTENSIS Steeio. 



STEERE'S MINIVET. 



Pericrocotus leytensis Steeke, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 



15; Grant, Ibis (1897), 224; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 103; Shakpe, 



Hand-List (1901), 3, 300 and 301, nos. 8 and 16; McGregor and 



\Yorcester, Hand-List (1906), 77. 



Leyte {Steere Exp., Whitehead), Samar (Bournn d- Worcester, Whitehead, 



M earns ) . 



Male. — "An adult male has the general coloring of P. igneiis, but is 

 larger and the central tail-feathers are tipped with verjnilion. The four 

 outer primaries are black, and at least seven of the secondaries have 

 vermilion markings on the outer webs toward their tips, as w^ell as the 

 broad vermilion bars across their bases. Length, 178; wing, 76; tail, 89." 

 (Steere.) 



Young. — A young female (Mearns collection) from Samar closely 

 resembles the corresponding plumage of P. novus from Luzon, but the, 

 bill is decidedly longer and wider in the former specimen. Wing, 78; 

 tail, SO; culmen from base, 15; width of bill at middle of nostril, 7. 



462. PERICROCOTUS JOHNSTONI/E Grant. 



MRS. JOHNSTONE'S MINIVET, 



Pericrocotus johiistonioB Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1905), 16, 18; Ibi3 

 (1906), 480, pi. 19. 

 Mindanao (Goodfcllow, Mearns, Clemois). 



"Adult male. — Most nearly allied to P. cruccu.s Sliaipe, from the 

 south of the Malay Peninsula, but differs in having an oblong orange- 

 yellow mark on the terminal portion of the outer web of the six median 

 secondary quills; tlie chin and throat glossy black like the crown and 

 mantle, and the breast and under parts deep yellow, less tinged with 

 orange. The tail-feathers are black, tipped with orange, increasing in 

 width, so that the outer pairs have the terminal half orange.- 'Iris, bill, 

 and feet black.' (Goodfelloiv.) Length, 165; Aving, 84; tail, 81; 

 tarsus, 15. 



"Adult female. — Differs considerably from the female of P.,croceus 

 in ha\ing a narrow bright yellow band across the forehead, continued 

 backward over the lores in a short superciliary stripy; -the chin, throat, 

 and all the yellow parts of the plumage bright yellow instead of orange ; 

 the six median secondary quills with an oblong yellow uiark on the 

 terminal half of the outer web. From the female of P. leytensis Steere 

 it is easily distinguished by the narrower and much brighter yellow band 

 across tlie forehead, as well as by the shining blackish gray 'crown and 

 mantle." {Grant.) 



The male of Mrs. Johnstone's minivet is very similar to P. novus, but 

 the under parts, especially the tail-coverts, are more yellowish and the 

 lower back, nimp, and upper tail-coverts arc orange-red instead of 



