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(J). W., 3-2 to 3-37. Female, chin 

 and throat full bright yellow ; /0 ■. , 



rump yellow. ... ... (o.) UCgleCtuS. 



(c). IT., 2 -8 (o 303. Female, chin 

 and throat orange yellow ; rump /r . . 

 fiery red ... ... (V.) IgneUS. 



B. Outer webs of tertiaries and later 

 secondaries, with bright colored 

 margins near tips. 



(a) Two first primaries in adult 

 male, and three first in female, 

 and young male without any red 

 or yellow patch on outer web. 



(1)- W., 3-9 to 4-2; central 

 tail feathers in male asa ,, A , 

 rule black ... ... (10.) speciOSUS. 



(2). W., 3-5 to 3-8 ; central tail 

 feathers almost invariably 

 with more or less of outer - , . , 



webs red ... ... (.11.) elegans. 



(b) Three first primaries in adult 

 male, and four first in female, 

 and young male without any red 

 or yellow patch on outer webs ; 

 female, orange yelloio below, 

 with much orange yellow on 



forehead. 



(1). W., 3-5 to 38. Very 

 rarely a portion of outer 

 webs of central tail feathers ,-, n. \ i 



red ... ... (12.)andamanensis. 



(2). W., 337 to 3-5. Outer 

 webs of central tail feathers , . n v n . r. 



always red ... ... (13-) flammifer. 



(c) Four first primaries both in 

 male and female without any 

 red or yellow patch on 

 outer webs ; female, pure 

 yellow below, and little yellow ,. . . -, 

 on forehead. W., 345 to 375.... (14.) tlammeUS. 



1.— Pericrocotus cinereus, La/res. Rev. Zool. VIII. 

 p. 94, 1845.— 



Gould B. of As., Pfc. IX. pi. 7.— modestus, Strickl. P. Z. S., 

 1846, p. 102.— 



luctuosus, Be. Fit. Cat. Mus. Mediol., 31st March, 1847.— 

 motacilloides, Swinh, Ibis, 1860, p. 58. 



It is only on the authority of others that I unite the other 

 names given with modestus. 



I have a considerable series (10 females and 2 males) shot 

 by ourselves in November, December and February, in various 

 parts of Tenasserim in the neighbourhood and to the south 

 of Mergui, and at Pulo Seban and Kurroo, places about 20 

 miles distant from Malacca. 



All ray specimens are more or less in the stage of plumage 

 described by Strickland; not one of them show any indications 

 of the pure white forehead, jet black hinder crown and occiput, 

 &c, figured and described by Gould as cinereus. 



