PERICROCOTUS. 493 



pompeian-orange. A male from Lake Lanao, Mindanao, measures, wing, 

 81 ; tail, 83 ; ciilmen from base, 15 ; width of bill at middle of nostril, 6. 



463. PERICROCOTUS IGNEUS Blyth. 

 FIERY MINIVET. 



Pericrocotus igneus Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1846), 15, 309; Shakpe, 

 Hand-List (1901), 3, 301; McGregor and Wobcesteb, Hand-List 

 (1906), 77. 

 Palawan {Steere, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns c6 Wor- 

 cester, Celestino, White). Western China, Malay Peninsula, southern Tenasserim, 

 Sumatra, Borneo. 



Adult male. — Entire head, chin, throat, and upper back glossy blue- 

 black; lower back, rump, tail-coverts, and under parts bright pompeian- 

 orange or fiery red ; base of each feather white with a wash of pale yellow 

 between the white base and red tip ; thighs black ; wings black ; primaries, 

 except four outermost, and secondaries crossed by a diagonal band of 

 bright orange-red; on inner webs the band is yellow; inner greater 

 coverts tipped with orange-red and forming part of the wing-patch; four 

 middle rectrices glossy black, the other rectrices black with apical one- 

 third to one-half red. Iris dark brown; bill and feet black. Length, 

 162 ; wing, 77 ; tail, 76 ; culmen from base, 13 ; bill from nostril, 9 ; 

 tarsus, 16. 



"Adult female. — General color above dull ashy gray, the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts fine vermilion; four median tail-feathers 

 black, the remainder vermilion with black bases, gradually increasing 

 in extent toward the inner ones; quills black, with a broad bar of orange 

 near the base of the quills, extending along the outer web of some of the 

 inner primaries; ear-coverts gray; lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, 

 and under surface of body bright yellow, inclining to orange on the 

 flanks and under tail-coverts; thighs blackish; under wing-coverts and 

 edge of wing yellow. Length, 1-iO ; culmen, 13 ; wing, 70 ; tail, 70 ; 

 tarsus, 15." (SJiarpe.) 



"Two males from Palawan average, 154 in length; wing, 73; tail, 74; 

 culmen, 16; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 14. Iris dark; bill, legs, 

 feet, and nails black. Breeding in Palawan in December. Usually keeps 

 to the tops of high trees in the forest but occasionally conies out into the 

 mangrove swamps." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



464. PERICROCOTUS CINEREUS Lafresneye. 

 ASHY MINIVET. 



Pericrocotus cinereus Lafresneye, Rev. Zool. (1845), 8, 94; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 83; Hand-List (1901), 3, 302; Whitehead, 

 Ibis (1899), 103 (migrant) ; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 

 3, 298, pi. 9, fig. 19; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 77. 

 Basilan (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Leclancher, Eeriot, White- 

 head, McGregor) ; Mindoro (Everett, McGregor) ; Palawan (Lempriere, Whitehead, 

 Bourns & Worcester, White). China and eastern Siberia; in winter to Pegu, 

 Borneo, and Malay Peninsula. 

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