178 REMARKS ON THE GENUS PERICROCOTUS. 



The Cawnpoor Flycatcher of Lath., Gen. Hist., VI., 176, pi. 

 xcviii. 



In erythropyffius, in both sexes, the extent of the white 

 in the wing is variable. In some specimens there is no white 

 patch on the first five ; in others none on the first six. Thirty- 

 two specimens examined. 



The wings of a number of specimens varied as follows :— 



cJ's— 2-7; 2-7; 2*82; 27; 278; 2*67; 277; 2*78 ; 27. 

 P's-2-7; 2-6; 27; 2'8; 272; 27; 2-69; 279. 



The Pied Minivet is essentially a bird of the moderately dry, 

 fairly cultivated, plains country of Northern and Central India. 

 It does not anywhere ascend the Hills, and it does not occur 

 (except possibly as a straggler during the dry season) any- 

 where where the rainfall is heavy and the atmosphere normally 

 moist. 



In Bengal I have it only from various localities in Behar. 

 In the N. W. Provinces it is chiefly in the Doab districts, and in 

 Benares, Azimgurh, Jounpoor, Mirzapoor, and the districts 

 south of the Jumna that it is found. In Oudh and Rohilcund 

 it only occurs in the southern and drier districts. In the 

 plains portion of the Punjaub, in Gourgaon, Rohtuk, Delhi, and 

 Umballa it is not uncommon, but it is entirely absent from the 

 more desert portions of Hurriana, Bhutteana, and as far as I 

 know the Trans-Sutlej Divisions generally. It has not yet 

 occurred to my knowledge in Sindh, nor in the more desert 

 portions of Rnjpootana, though wherever the country is a 

 little less inhospitable, and there are more trees and better 

 cultivation, it is not very rare even in Rajpootana. It has 

 been met with in Cutch, Kattiawar, and Guzerat; I have 

 specimens from the base of the hills that bound Khandeish on 

 the north. 



In Jhansie, Saugor, Nagpoor, Raipoor and most of the 

 districts of the Central Provinces, and in many localities 

 throughout the Deccan and Hyderabad it also occurs, but 

 southwards of this my museum does not attest its occurrence, 

 and though Jerdon says he saw it near Segoor, at the foot of 

 the Neilgherries, I have never yet obtained or seen a specimen 

 from that neighbourhood. 



3.— Pericocotus albifrons, Jerdon. Ibis, 1862, p.20. 



This species has already been described (Vol III, p. 96). In 

 this, as in the preceding, so far as I can judge, the extent of 

 white on the wing is variable, but 1 have examined too few 

 specimens to speak positively here. The wings of the only 

 three birds in our museum, all males, measure 2*6, 27, 2*65. 



