492 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
461. PERICROCOTUS LEYTENSIS Steere. 
STEERE’S MINIVET. 
Pericrocotus leytensis STEERER gest Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 
15; Grant, Ibis (1897), 224; Wuirenrap, Ibis (1899), 103; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1901), 3, 300 and 301, nos. 8 and 16; McGrercor and 
WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 77. 
Leyte (Steere Eap., Whitehead), Samar (Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, 
Mearns). 
Male.—‘An adult male has the general coloring of P. igneus, but is 
larger and the central tail-feathers are tipped with vermilion. The four 
outer primaries are black, and at least seven of the secondaries have 
vermilion markings on the outer webs toward their tips, as well 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, 86; culmen from base, 15; width of bill at middle of nostril, 7. 
462. PERICROCOTUS JOHNSTONIZ Grant. 
MRS, JOHNSTONE’S MINIVET. 
Pericrocotus johnstonie GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1905), 16, 18; Ibis 
(1906), 480, pl. 19. 
Mindanao (Goodfellow, Mearns, Clemens). 
“Adult male—Most nearly allied to P. croceus Sharpe, 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; the 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.’ (Goodfellow.) Length, 165; wing, 84; tail, 81; 
tarsus, 15. 
“Adult female.—Differs considerably from the female of P. croceus 
in having a narrow bright yellow band across the forehead, continued 
backward over the lores in a short superciliary stripe; 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 mark 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 the 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, rump, and upper tail-coverts are orange-red instead of 
