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NOTE ON PERICROCOTVS SFECIOSUS VEL FATER- 



CULUS. 



By E. C. Stuart Baker, f.z.s. 



On p. 151, Vol. X, No. 1 of this Journal, I wrote some remarks on 

 the above species of birds in reply to Mr. Oates, who had in the pre- 

 vious number disagreed with what I had written concerning them. 

 At the time I wrote I had but few specimens of the genus Perkrocotus 

 in my possession ; now, however, that I am at home, I have been able 

 to examine other birds obtained by me in North Gachar, and in order 

 to strengthen what I have already asserted, I give further notes 

 regarding dimensions, &c., which I have drawn up in tabular form. It 

 will be seen from this table that I have examined altogether 27 birds, 

 of which 19 are adult males, 1 a non-adult male, and 7 females. As re- 

 gards the tail, these 27 birds vary in length between 3'65" and 4'3", 

 both these extreme measurements being those of fully adult males. The 

 wings of the males, with three exceptions — one of these being a young 

 bird — only vary from o'o" to 4*1", the females running considerably 

 smaller. The coloration of the tails is not, as Oates remarks, of much 

 importance ; but it is interesting to note that, with the exception of the 

 amount of black at the base of the lateral rectrices, the coloration of 

 the tails of the females is extremely constant when compared with that 

 of the males. 



These 27 birds are now in the collection of the Hon. W. Roths- 

 child at Tring. 



