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of two males and two females recorded in the flesh are as 
follows :— : 
Length, 12 to 12°35 ; expanse 19°3 to 19°75 ; wing, 6°6 to 6°75 ; 
tail from vent, 5°2 to 5°5 ; tarsus, 1°05 to 1:1; bill from gape, 1°5 
to 1°55. 
The irides vary from brilliant light hazel to reddish or dark 
brown ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 
[The Rangoon specimens agree perfectly with Caleutta_ spe- 
cimens, and are intermediate in size, between the larger North- 
ern race usually identified as the true Macei, and the smaller 
Southern G. Layardi, of Blyth. I do not myself believe in 
the distinctness of these two supposed species. (See also 8. 
F. II, 204.—(A. O. H.] 
275.—Pericrocotus roseus, Vieillot. 
This species occurs sparingly in the vicinities of Rangoon 
and Syriam, and I have also found it in the neighbourhood of 
China Ba-keer. As arule, itis solitary in its habits, and I 
have never met with more than a pair of these birds together. 
They seem to prefer high trees with loose foliage, such as 
Casuarinas and Sonneratias, amongst the branches of which 
they hop about with great rapidity. The following result is 
obtained from the measurments of three males recorded in the 
flesh :— 
Length, 7:2 to 7:3 ; expanse, 9°8 to 10:3 ; wing, 3°3 to 3°45 ; tail 
from vent, 3°3 to 3°7 ; tarsus, °6 to °65 ; bill from gape, *75 to °8. 
Irides, dark brown ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 
[Lord Walden, in his interesting article on the late Colonel 
Tickell’s “ Illustrations of Indian Ornithology,” remarks :— 
“ P. roseus, S, is figured and described by Colonel Tickell from 
a Tenasserim example. The uropygium and upper tail coverts 
are described as being ‘ pure brilliant scarlet, —This is certainly 
the case with all Burman and Assam birds I have seen. But 
is it so in typical Bengal and other Indian individuals? These 
last I have never met with varying from the description given 
by Jerdon (B. Ind. I, p. 422.)—* rump tinged with rosy” 
Typical specimens from Mergui are widely different from 
others, say from the Agrore valley at the extreme north-west 
frontier of India. In the Tenasserim specimens the head and 
back, the former especially, are a much darker, almost leaden 
erey, in the Agrore bird much paler and browner. In the Agrore 
bird, the rump and upper tail coverts are merely tinged 
with rosy, in the Tenasserim bird the upper tail coverts are 
brilliant crimson scarlet, and the rump is strongly tinged 
and patched with the same color. The red on the wings, tail 
and wing lining of the Tenasserim bird is altogether brighter 
