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pompeian-orange. A male from Lake Lanao, Mindanao, measures, wing, 
81; tail, 83; culmen from base, 15; width of bill at middle of nostril, 6. 
463. PERICROCOTUS IGNEUS Blyth. 
FIERY MINIVET. 
Pericrocotus igneus BLytu, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1846), 15, 309; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1901), 3, 301; McGrrecor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1906), 77. 
Palawan (Steere, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Wor- 
cester, Celestino, White). Western China, Malay Peninsula, southern Tenasserim, 
Sumatra, Borneo. 
Adult male—Unutire 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, 140; culmen, 13; wing, 70; tail, 70; 
tarsus, 15.” (Sharpe.) 
“Two males from Palawan average, 154 in length; wing, 72; 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 comes out into the 
mangrove swamps.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
464, PERICROCOTUS CINEREUS Lafresneye. 
ASHY MINIVET. 
Pericrocotus cinereus LAFRESNEYE, Rey. Zool. (1845), 8, 94; SHARPE, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 83; Hand-List (1901), 3, 302; WHITEHEAD, 
Ibis (1899), 103 (migrant) ; Oares and Rew, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 
3, 298, pl. 9, fig. 19; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 77. 
Basilan (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Leclancher, Heriot, 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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