100 KEMAIIKS ON THE GENUS PERICROCOTUS. 



but it is imperfect, and I should like to see more and perfect 

 specimens thence before pronouncing decidedly. 



9,— Pericrocotus igneus, Bhjth., J. A. S. B. } XV., p. 

 309, 1845.— Salvacl U. di. B., 144. 



minutus, Tern. Str'tckl. Contr. Orn., 1849, 94, pi. 32. S. 



Bly th described this species as follows : — 



" P. igrneiid, uobis, Malayan P. Jlammeits, auctorum, &c., and 

 probably of Temminck,* P. C, 263. Size small, barely larger than 

 P. peregrinus ; the wing" measuring but two inches and seven- 

 eighths, and the rest in proportion ; bill to gape five-eighths, 

 and tarsi nine-sixteenths of an inch. Colour as in P. speciosus, 

 except that the outer tail-feathers are less deeply red, and the 

 wing band is proportionally smaller ; the forepart of the 

 wing underneath, with the band as there seen, is deep yellow, 

 and the axillaries are yellow, irregularly tipped with red. Alto- 

 gether the red is of a shade more igneous than in P. speciosus, 

 but considerably less so than in P. flammeus. The female I have 

 not seen. Described from Malaccan specimens." 



The following are dimensions recorded in the flesh of two 

 males of this species : — 



Length, 6*5 ; expanse, 9"25 ; tail, 3*0 ; wing, 2*95, 305 ; 

 tarsus, - 55, 0'62 ; bill from gape, 0'7; weight, 06oz. 



The wings of two other males measure 2*9 and 2'87. 



In this species in neither sex is there any coloured patch on 

 the outer webs of any of the four first primaries, and like both 

 the two preceding (neglectus and brevirostris) there is no 

 brio-ht coloured edging towards the tips to the outer webs of 

 the tertiaries and later secondaries. 



To Blyth's description I should only add that some specimens 

 are almost, if not quite, as fiery as many specimens of flammeus, 

 and that the wing lining, axillaries and bar are always decidedly 

 more yellow orange than even in that species. 



Adult females, killed at Johore, Malacca, and the Pakchan 

 estuary, measured — 



Length, 63, 6'5 ; expanse, 9*2, 93; tail, 3*0 ; wing, 2'8, 

 2-9, 30 ; tarsus, 0-57, 0*61, 0"62 ; bill from gape, 06, 062. 



A narrow band on the forehead, extending as a broad streak 

 over the lores and anterior half of eye, chin, cheeks, throat, 

 breast, sides of neck behind ear-coverts, and rest of lower parts 

 bright orange, having a decided flammeous tinge on the lower 

 abdomen, flanks and lower tail-coverts. 



A broad dnsky line through the lores ; forehead above the 

 orange band, crown, occiput, nape, upper and middle back and 



* Only in part, at any rate I think, The male as figured is too largo, and the 

 female is not of the igneus type at all. 



