192 REMARKS ON THE GENUS PERICROG'oTlTS. 



of the Pakchau Estuary, the whole northern banks of which are in 

 British territory, although many maps indicate the contrary. 

 Outside our limits we have procured it in the neighbourhood of 

 Malacca, and in the state of Johore on the mainland opposite 

 Singapore. 



P. miniata, Tern, P. C, p. 156, belongs apparently, (non vidi) 

 so far as the male is concerned to the same sub-group with 

 which we have been dealing, in that the male has the whole 

 head glossy black, and that there are no bright colored margins 

 to the outer webs of the tertiaries and latter secondaries near 

 their tips ; no second wing patch in fact, but the female is of a 

 wholly different type. In fact Loi'd Waldeu suggested that the 

 supposed female must be the male of another species, but 

 Mr. Sharpe has pointed out (S. F., IV., p 210) that specimens 

 of both sexes, collected by Mr. Wallace in Western Java, agreed 

 with Temminck's plate, so that we must accept this abnormally 

 coloured female as a fact. She is like the male, but with a 

 frontal band, chin, cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of neck, bright 

 red, the cheeks being sometimes variegated with black, and 

 with the whole back red ; each feather apparently centered dusky. 



10.— Pericrocotus speciosus, Lath. 



Ind. Orn. L, p. 363, 1790; Gen. Hist., V., p. 96, 1822.— Jerd. 

 B. of I., I., p. 419, No. 271.*— Gould B. of As., Pt. IX., PI. 3. 



princeps, Fig. P. Z. S., 1830, p. 22 ; Gould Cent. Himl. 

 t. VII. 



We now commence with the second division of the more 

 typical sub-group, viz., that in which the tertiaries and later 

 secondaries have near their tips bright coloured margins to the 

 outer webs, forming a second wing patch. 



To this division belong the present species, elegans, andama- 

 nensis, jlammifer, the true ardens and Jlammeus and exul. 



In the present species — and 1 have examined 46 adult speci- 

 mens and 9 young males — only the two first primaries in the 

 adult male, and the three first in the female and young male, 

 want the bright patch on the outer webs. 



The male is an intense scarlet with, where the feathers are 

 displaced, a slight orange tinge. The whole of the central tail 

 feathers are normally black, but rarely (in 3 out of 27 exa- 

 mined) more or less of the outer webs are colored like 

 the terminal portions of the laterals. The female is a clear 

 full gamboge or orange yellow below, the orange of the forehead 

 extending over the anterior half of crown and sometimes fur- 

 ther, but varying in intensity. 



* Note that Jerdon says the central tail-feathers in the female are "light ashy grey." 

 They are black or blackish brown. 



