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Adult male: — Head all round, throat, mantle, greater part 

 of the primaries and secondaries, wing-coverts, centre pair of 

 tail feathers greater part of the second innermost pair and the 

 bases of the other pairs in a lessening degree glossy black. 

 External aspect of the wings with a broad diagonal bar of 

 orange red, starting on the fourth primary and extending to 

 the innermost tertials, the last tertial only entirely black; inner 

 aspect of the wing with a similar lemon yellow bar formed by 

 patches on the inner webs of the primaries and secondaries; 

 rump and upper tail coverts, under surface except the throat 

 and those parts of the tail feathers that are not black, vermilion 

 orange, more crimson on the rump, the bases of the feathers 

 chrome. Axillaries and under wing coverts, chrome, tipped 

 with orange red, their bases black, thighs black. Angle of the 

 wing orange chrome. 



Adult female: — Those portions of the plumage that are 

 glossy black in the male, grey with a faint yellowish cast, 

 blacker on the wing and tail feathers; a frontal band and eye 

 ring orange chrome, this colour extending as a short superciliary 

 beyond the eye. Under surface chrome yellow-, under wing 

 coverts and wing band similar, lower back and upper tail coverts 

 vermilion, light portion of the tail orange yellow, suffused with 

 vermilion, thighs mingled greyish and yellow. 



Immature : — Resemble the female but are brownish above, 

 each feather edged w-ith yellowish white, frontal band and eye 

 ring absent; beneath pale fuscous faintly barred with brownish 

 white, the middle of the abdomen pale yellow\ 



Dimensions: — Adult male: total length, 5.75; wing, 2.9; 

 tail 2.8 in. 



Adult female : total length 5.5 ; wing 2.75 ; tail 2.8 in. 



Localities in the Peninsula: — Siamese Malay States: Bandon, 

 Ban Kok Klap (July). Perak: Temongoh (July); Parit 

 (September). Selangor: Ulu Gombak (September); Klang 

 Gates (January); Ginting Bidai, 2,300' (May); Cheras (March). 

 Negri Sembilan: Gunong Tampin (September). North Johore: 

 Segamat, Padang Tuan (September). East Johore: Tanjong 

 Leman (June). 



Notes: — This species is resident and breeds in the country 

 apparently from May to June. It is fairly common along the 

 east coast among Casuarinas and in forest country up to about 

 2,500' but is everywhere much scarcer than either P. montanus 

 or P. zanthogaster, nor is it found in such large flocks. 



Pericrocotus Montanus, Wray's Minivet. 



• 

 Pericrocotus montanus, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv, p. 205 

 (1879) (^^- Singalan, W. Sumatra); Sharpe, Ibis, 1889, p. 193 

 (Kinabalu, N. Borneo, 8,000' ) ; id Ibis, 1892, p. 435) Mt. Dulit, 

 Borneo, 5,000'); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xii, p. 54 (1891) 

 {Toba Lake, Central Sumatra); Hartert Nov. Zool. ix, p. 554 



