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with their terminal two-thirds scarlet ; axillaries and under 

 wing coverts orange, the bases of the former black ; thighs 

 black ; rest of the plumage brilliant scarlet orange, more 

 scarlet on the rump and upper tail coverts, the bases of the 

 feathers of the abdomen orange chrome. Bill and feet black, 

 iris dark hazel. 



Adult female. — Head behind the level of the eyes, nape, 

 mantle and scapulars grey, slightly suffused with greenish. 

 Forehead to the eyes, a patch round the eyes and a short 

 superciliary stripe, extending slightly beyond the eyes bright 

 chrome yellow. Stripe from the nostrils to the eyes, blackish. 

 Lower back, rump and upper tail coverts, greenish yellow. 

 Whole under surface bright chrome yellow, the lower of the 

 feathers of the abdomen white ; the thighs mingled brownish 

 and yellow. Wings black, the first four primaries uniform on 

 the outer web, the remainder with a diagonal chrome yellow 

 bar. Secondaries and tertials with their basal third chrome 

 yellow and with elongated isolated drops of the same colour 

 on the outer webs. Lesser wing coverts greyish, except on the 

 angle of the wing ; greater ones black, their tips chrome 

 yellow. Under wing coverts pale yello\\' and fuscous, the 

 axillaries yellow with their bases, blackish. Innermost pair 

 of tail feathers entirely black, the next pair mainly black, the 

 third pair about half black, the black regularly diminishing to 

 the outermost pair in which only the basal third or fourth is 

 black ; remainder of the feathers pure chrome yellow. 



Dimensions. — Adult male. Total length, 6.75 ; wing, 3.38 ; 

 tail, 3.25 in. 

 Adult female. Total length, 6.75 ; wing 3.4; 

 tail, 3.25 in. 

 Immature. — The not fully adult birds of both sexes resem- 

 ble the adult female, from which garb the male changes into 

 the adult dress in part by a deepening of the pure yellow 

 feathers to orange and thence to vermilion scarlet, this change 

 being very well shown in the large series in the Selangor 

 Museum. Still younger birds have the yellow colour beneath 

 duller, the feathers of the head and mantle with white margins, 

 and the primaries edged with white. 



Localities in the Peninsula: — Siamese Malay States: 

 Bandon (June) ; Trang (November, December, January). 

 Perils: Pelarit (November). Perak: Temongoh (July) ; Taiping 

 (July). Selangor: Semangko Pass, 2,700' (February) ; Bukit 

 Kutu (August) ; Klang Gates (January) ; Ginting Bidai, 2,300' 

 (September); Ulu Gombak (September). Pahang : Bentong 

 (June). 



Notes : — This race is widely spread throughout the Penin- 

 sula in submontane country, ranging up to about 3,000' in 

 altitude, above which its place is taken by P. montanus. As is 

 the case with many other species originally described from 

 Southern Tenasserim by Hume it is evident that it has no 



