184 REMARKS ON THE GENUS PERICROCOTUS. 



Nos. 295, 298, Phanicornis cancha of Hodgson MSS., which 

 clearly, with the white sides of throat in both male and female, 

 represent Solaris. There may be specimens of peregrinus in 

 Hodgson's collection, but if so, they probably came up from 

 the low country at the base of the Hills or the low outer Hills, 

 and were never I believe obtained in Nepal Proper. 



No doubt Hodgson's plate No. 705 Phcenicornis pusillus, 

 Hodgs. MSS., does represent the present species, and on 

 this on the face of it is a note by one of Mr. Hodgson's clerks 

 to the effect that the species is " unknown below" and again 

 " unknown in plains \" But Mr. Hodgson's own note on the 

 reverse shows that all his four specimens there recorded came up 

 from the " Lower Hills," and though these, as well as the Terai, 

 may form part of the territory now under Nepalese rule, it is 

 totally destructive of any right conception of the distribution 

 of the species to include Nepal (as always understood in 

 Europe) within its range. 



As already noticed we have, as I believe, in P. flagrans, Boie, 

 ap. Bonap., a distinct and as yet unrecognized species of this 

 same sub-group, quite distinct from igneus, Blyth, which belongs 

 to a different sub-group. 



5.— PeiicrOCOtUS rOSeUS, Vieill. (Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat. XXI, 486.) 

 Jerd, B. of In., I., 422.— Hume, S. F., IV., 317.— Gould, B. 

 of As., Pt. IX., PI. 6. 



affinis, McClell apud Blyth, J. A. S. B„ XV. 310, et Moore 

 and Horsf. Cat. B. Mus. E. T. C. I. 141, et Goidd, he. cit. 

 nee McClell. 



In this species neither sex, (and I have examined 46 speci- 

 mens), ever has either the red or yellow patch on any of the 

 first four primaries, though there is occasionally a narrow red 

 line (or yellow, according to sex) on the margin of the fourth. 



The female has no colored frontal band, and lias the chin 

 and throat entirely white (solaris has ouly the sides of the 

 throat white). In the male the white is more or less faintly 

 tinged rosy or greyish rosy. 



The two central tail feathers are always entirely brown or 

 blackish brown, generally very narrowly tipped rosy. 



The bill is perhaps more triangular and depressed than in 

 any other of our Indian species. 



Wings vary as follows : — 



^'8.-3.3; 3-3; 3-3; 3'65 ; 3'35 ; 3*47; 3*4; 3'5 ; 3*5; 

 33; 3-5; 34; 3'45 ; 3-4; 3'2. 



? > s ._3-35; 345; 3-4; 3'4; 3'53 ; 33; 355; 3*5; 3'53; 

 3-4. 



