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4.—Pericrocotus exul. 
Hab. Lombock (Wallace) : East Java (Wallace): Banda 
(Wallace). 
The Javan specimen is rather more richly coloured than the 
typical Lombock birds. This is doubtless. 
5.—Pericrocotus peregrinus. 
Hab. Spread_throughout the whole of India, extending 
to the Andaman Islands, and Burmah (Jerdon) : Nepal, Behar, 
(Hodgson) : Sindh (Hume): (said to have been procured by 
Griffith in Afghanistan (Horsf. and Moore, Cat. L., p. 140), 
but Blyth (bis, 1872, p. 89) thinks that an error in the loca- 
lity has probably arisen, and that Griffith really obtained it in 
the Khasia Hills; at the same time it is allowed that he collected 
in Sindh, and the specimen may just as well have come from 
the latter locality: very common during the whole year at 
the Sambhur Lake (Adam): Kachh (Stoliczka): Barrackpore, 
common at Umballah, Maunbhoom (Beavan): tolerably 
common throughout Chota Nagpur; in Sirguja and Lohar- 
dugga (Ball): Kamptee (Hinde): Wardha Valley (Blanford): 
Madras (Mus. Brit): Ceylon (Holdsworth): South Andaman 
(Ramsay): not uncommon near Port Blair (Davison): Pegu, 
Thayet-Myo (Blanford, Oates, Feilden): Ye-boo, Pabyouk, 
Amherst in Tenasserim (Hume): West Java (Wallace). On 
the variation in colour in specimens of P. peregrinus from 
different localities, Mr. Hume’s remarks (St. F., I., p. 178) 
should be carefully studied. 
6.—Pericrocotus igneus. 
Hab. Borneo; Sarawak, (Beccari): Marup (Fverest) : Su- 
matra (Mus, Lugd.): Singapore (Wallace): Mallacca (Mus. 
Brit) : Western China (Penny, Mus Paris). 
P. flagrans, Bp., is undoubtedly the female of this species. 
7.—Pericrocotus brevirostris. 
Hab. “The Short-billed Minivet is found throughout the 
Himalayas up to 8,000 feet of elevation during the summer, 
migrating in the cold weather to the plains of India, and_ visit- 
ing Lower Bengal* and Central India, not-however extending 
its migrations far south. I have killed it in Goomsoor, N. Lat. 
20, and also near Saugor. It extends into Assam and Arakan. 
It is very common at Darjeeling from April to October” 
(Jerdon): small parties of this Minivet visit Sambhur 
during the cold weather (Adam): Cashmere (Biddulph): Sind 
* Mr. Blyth (bis, 1866, p. 369) writes: “I doubt if this bird ever visits Lower 
Bengal, as Dr. Jerdon, probably by a slip of the pen, asserts,” 
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