ISO PRIONOPID^:. 



Length. 6*5 to 6-8; wing 2*7; tail 3-3; bill at front o'3; tarsus 0*5. 



Hal. The Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Bengal, Central India, Hyderabad 

 Deccan, and South India. 



Jerdon says the white-bellied Minivet is extensively spread throughout 

 India, but everywhere rare. He records it from near Jaulnah, Hydrabad 

 in the Deccan, the foot of the Neilgherries, Bundelcund and the N.-W. 

 Provinces. It frequents low and bushy jungles; also thin tree jungle, 

 groves, gardens, and hedgerows, and lives in small flocks. Food various 

 insects. Breeds in Khandeish at Dhoolia. Nest of the usual shape and struc- 

 ture. Eggs 3 in number, greenish-white with pale purplish streaks. Size 

 0-65 X 0-5 inch. 



200. Pericrocotus albifrons, Jerd. Ibis, 1862, p. 20; Bi. B. 



Burmah p. 124; Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 96 ; Sharpe, Sir. F. iv. p. 212 ; Hume 

 Str. F. v. p. 178 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 86; Hume, Sir. F. viii. 

 p. gi t JERDON'S MINIVET. 



Forehead, supercilium, cheeks, sides of the neck, chin and throat white 

 lores, ear coverts, top of head, back, scapulars, upper tail and lesser wing 

 coverts, also the primary coverts, glossy black ; rump and breast orange red ; 

 greater wing coverts black, broadly tipped with white, forming a broad band 

 on the wing ; primaries black, with an oblique patch of white on all but the 

 first five feathers ; secondaries black, their bases white ; tertiaries white, with 

 a large black oblique patch in the centre of each feather ; breast, belly and 

 under tail coverts white ; the two central pairs of tail feathers wholly black, 

 the others black, broadly tipped with white. The female has the black of the 

 male replaced by sooty brown ; the white parts less pure ; only a trace of red 

 on the rump, and wholly wanting on the breast. 



Bill and legs black ; irides dark brown, 



Length. 6'2$ to 6-5 inches; wing 2*5 to 2-65; tail 3-25 to 3-4; tarsus 

 0-6; bill 0-54. 



Hab. British Burmah. According to Jerdon it is a very local species, and 

 is the representative in Upper Burma of P. erythropygius of Southern and 

 Central India. It was first procured at Thayetmyo. Gates got it at Palow, 

 south of Thayetmyo, and Blanford traced it as far as Pagan on the Irrawady. 

 It is found usually in couples or in small families, chiefly in low and thorny 

 jungles, not frequenting the dense forests. It is active and restless, flitting 

 about the smaller branches and feeding on various insects, which it usually 

 picks up from a leaf or twig, now and then catching one in the air. 



201. Pericrocotus immodestus, Hume, S/r.F.v.p. 177; viii. 



p. 91 ; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 173 ; Gates, B. Br. Burmah. i. p. 243. The 

 WHITE-FRONTED MINIVET. 



