320 A SECOND LIST OF THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



232 quint. — Anthreptes ?* Pabyai. Single specimen. 



240 qui?it. — Priouochilus maculatus, Tern. Not rare in the 

 extreme south. 



240 sex. — Prionochilus modestus, Hume. (Supra, p. 298). Com- 

 mon throughout the extreme south of the province. 



266. — Hyloterpe grisola, Bhjth. (Hylocaris luscinia, S. Mull). 

 Kolon Island, Mergui ; rare. 



273 bis. — Pericrocotus igneus, Blyth. PaJechan, &c. ; not very- 

 rare. 



273 quat. — Pericrocotus ardens, f Bote. Pakchan ; not rare. 



277 ter. — Pericrocotus cinereus, Lafresn. Mergui and south- 

 wards to the Pakchan Estuary ; not uncommon. 



colour visible until the feathers are disturbed ; quills and their greater coverts dark 

 hair brown, margined with olivaceous; longer upper tail-coverts black or blackish, 

 margined with olive green ; tail black, all but the central feathers tipped white, the 

 external pair broadly (for 032), and the succeeding ones less and less broadly ; chin 

 and throat greyish white ; upper breast very pale grey brown ; lower breast and rest 

 of lower parts, dull, rather pale greenish or olivaceous yellow, purest along the median 

 line and most tinged with olive at the sides ; lower tail-coverts nearly white, but with 

 the faintest possible tinge of yellow, and the feathers much disintegrated; wing lining 

 white, tinged along the carpal joint with pale primrose. 



If this should prove to belong to a new species it may stand as Chalcostetha inspe- 

 rata, nobis. 



* I have no idea what species this female belongs to. It is clearly, I think, an 

 Anthreptes, and it appears to me to belong to an undescribed species. In general 

 coloring it is very like A. simplex, Muller, except in wanting the frontal band, but it is 

 very much smaller and I should say did not weigh half what that species does. I have 

 no particular knowledge of this group myself, but I have compared this specimen with 

 females of the following species : — asiatica, lotenia. flammaxillaris, pectoralis, simplex, 

 hypogrammica, zeylonica, minima, brasiliana, malaccensis, and singalensis, and it is 

 clearly not an JEthopyga. It seems to me probable that the species is new. The fol- 

 lowing are the dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh: — Length, 4'75 ; expanse, 7'0 ; 

 tail, 175; wing, 225; tarsus, 05 ; bill from gape ; 06 ; at front, 05; weight, 0'27 oz. 

 The bill was darkish horny brown; the irides lake red; the legs, feet, and claws pale 

 reddish green ; the entire upper surface is a moderately bright yellowish olive green ; 

 the quills dark hair brown margined and suffused on the outer webs with the same 

 color as the back, bat slightly yellower; the entire tail feathers olive yellow with a 

 brownish tinge in some lights on the median parts of the feathers ; lores dusky 

 greenish ; ear-coverts pale greyish green ; chin and throat white with a greenish tinge ; 

 rest of lower parts pale green with a yellowish tinge down the centre of the breast and 

 abdomen, on the vent and lower tail-coverts ; wing lining and axillaries pure white, the 

 latter tinged at the tips, and the edge of the wing at the carpal joint colored with pale 

 gamboge ; lower surface of quills pale hair brown ; the inner margins of the inner 

 webs silky white ; lower surface of tail-feathers dull olive yellow ; the 4th, 5th 

 and 6th quills are sub-equal and longest, the 3rd is slightly shorter, the 2nd is 

 - 3, and the 1st is 1*0 shorter; tail even, except the outermost pair, which are l - 05 - 0,/6 

 shorter than the rest. If new " xanthoc hlora." (SX*~ "># 



f Though I have recorded this species as P. ardens the dimensions exceed some- 

 what those given by Salvadori. (Birds of Borneo, p. 143.) J^7°, ~t> J fjM 



Even if not the true ardens it belongs to the same minimum sub-division of the 

 genus, and is, I should think barely separable from ardens. There are two divisions 

 of these, red, pink and orange Pericrocoti ; one in which there is no second patch 

 of bright color, on the outer webs of the later secondaries towards their tips and 

 the other in which this second patch appears. In the first group we have brevirostris, 

 Solaris, miniatus and its diminutive ignetis. In the second we have speciosus, xantho- 

 gaster,flammeus, elegans, andamanensis and ardens. In speciosus and elegans the 

 red patch on the primaries extends to the outer web of the 3rd primary, but elegans 

 is a 2;ood deal smaller, and as a rule has only the outer webs of the central tail- 

 feathers black. In Jiammeus the red on the primaries only extends to the 5th. In 

 andamanensis, and this present bird which I give as ardens it extends to the 4th : 

 but this is a somewhat smaller bird than andamanensis, the wings only measuring 



