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with green ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellowish green ; cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, and chin light grey ; the whole lower plumage bright 

 yellow ; lesser wing-coverts brown, edged with green ; greater 

 coverts brown, tipped with yellow ; wings dark brown, the marks 

 as in the male, but yellow instead of scarlet ; tail similar to that 

 of the male, but the scarlet replaced by yellow. 



Bill, legs, feet, and claws black; iris deep brown (Davison). 



Length about 7 ; tail 4 ; wing 3-4 ; tarsus -6 ; bill from gape -6. 



P. rubro-limbatus of Salvador!, the type of which I have examined, 

 is P. Solaris with the middle tail-feathers narrowly margined with 

 red. This red margin is not unfrequently present in specimens of 

 P. Solaris from Sikhim and other parts. 



P. griseigularis, Grould, from China, resembles P. Solaris, but has 

 the throat grey and the upper plumage darker in colour. 



Distribution. Nepal ; Sikhim ; the Buxa Doars ; the Khasi 

 hills ; Manipur ; Pegu ; the slopes of Muleyit mountain, in 

 Tenasserim. 



Blanford observed this bird in Sikhim at an elevation of 

 10,000 feet. I procured it in Pegu at the level of the sea. 



499. Pericrocotus roseus. The Rosy Minivet. 



Muscicapa rosea, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi, p. 486 (1818). 



Pericrocotus roseus ( Vieill.\ Blyth, Cat. p. 193 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. 

 i, p. 141 ; Jerd. B. I. \, p. 422 ; Hume, N. fy E. p. 184 ; Sharpe, 

 8. F. iv, p. 210 ; Hume, S. F. v, p. 184 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., 

 Aves, p. 649; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 81 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 210 ; 

 Hume, Cat. no. 275 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 247 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 97 ; 

 Oates in Hume's N. # E. 2nd ed. i, p. 338. 



Pericrocotus intensior, Hume, S. F. v, p. 185 (1877). 



Coloration. Male. Upper plumage ashy brown, darker on the 

 head ; the tips of the feathers on the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 rosy red, varying in extent ; wing-coverts dark brown, the greater 

 ones tipped with scarlet ; quills dark brown, all but the first four 

 primaries with a scarlet patch across them ; later secondaries and 

 tertiaries brown, the outer webs partially margined with scarlet ; 

 sides of the head ashy ; chin and throat whitish ; remainder of 

 lower plumage with axillaries and under wing-coverts rosy red ; 

 middle tail-feathers blackish, the others red with blackish bases. 



Female. Dull brown above, and the rump olive-yellow margined 

 with yellow and without a trace of red ; the portions which are red 

 in the male are in the female everywhere replaced by pale yellow ; 

 chin and throat dull yellowish white. 



Bill, legs, and feet black ; iris dark brown. 



Length about 7 ; tail 3-5 ; wing 3-4 ; tarsus -6 ; bill from gape 

 75. 



This species varies much in intensity of colouring according to 

 locality. Birds from the north-west of India are the palest, and 

 those from Tenasserim the richest in colour. 



Distribution. The Himalayas, from Afghanistan to Assam, up to 



