156 PERICROCOTUS LANSBERGEI. 



Adult male. Upper surface, including head and throat, 

 black with a gloss of greenish blue ; lower back , rump , 

 upper tail-coverts , terminal part of outer tail feathers , a 

 broad alar speculum , the whole chest and partially the sides 

 of the breast vermilion ; rest of lower surface and under 

 tail-coverts white; edge of wing and under wing-coverts 

 pale rosy , the greater series dark ashy , like the lower 

 surface of the quills. Four first primaries entirely black, 

 the rest having a broad oblique band of vermilion , extend- 

 ing over all the secondaries except the innermost which 

 are entirely black. The wing- coverts are black like the 

 back, the greater series broadly tipped with vermilion. 

 The distribution of colors on the tail is the same as in the 

 allied species , the innermost pair only being entirely black , 

 which color decreases towards the base of the outermost 

 pair, the basal half of which is black, while the terminal 

 half is red. Thighs smoky brown, »iris grey," bill black, 

 feet dark brown. 



Wing 7,2 cm., tail 9, culmen 1,2, tarsus 1,5. 



Adult female. Smoky brown where the male is black, 

 somewhat darker on the head, paler on the lower back, 

 passing through ochre on the rump into vermilion on 

 the upper tail-coverts. Centre tail-feathers not quite as 

 black as in the male. Lesser wing-coverts like the back, 

 greater series dark brown , tipped with vermilion , quills 

 dark brown with an olivaceous gloss, alar speculum the 

 same as in the male, the four first primaries being 

 dark entirely, edge of wing and under wing-coverts like 

 in the male. Lores like upper surface of the head; front, 

 a superciliary streak , sides of face , ear-coverts and thighs 

 ashy grey, entire lower surface greyish white, chin and 

 throat pure white , chest more or less tinged with fulvous. Iris , 

 bill and feet like in the male; measurements also the same. 



Five specimens (3 males and 2 females). 



Hab. Biraa (Sumbawa). 





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Notes from the Lieyden Miuseixm , "Vol. "VUI. 



