BIRDS 01 THE INDIAN EMPIRE, 



695 



*6s8. (495) Pericrocotus brevirostris brevirostris. The Short- 

 hilled Minivet, 

 Muscipeta brevirostris Vigors, P.Z.S., 1831, js. 43 (Mussoorie). 

 Chitral to Central Nepal. 



659. (495) Pericrocotus brevirostris affinis. The Assam 



Short-hilled Minivet. 

 Pericrocotus alfinis IlcClelland, P.Z.S., p. 156, (1839). 



(Assam). 

 E. Nepal to Shan States. 



660. (496) Pericrocotus brevirostris neglectus. Hume's 



Minivet. 

 Pericrocotus neglectus Hume, Str. Feath. v., p. 171 (1877) 

 {Tennasserim). 

 Tennasserim. 



661. (497) Pericrocotus igneus. The Fiery Minivet. 



Blyth, J.A.8.B. xv., p. 309 (1846), {Malacca). 

 Tennasserim and Southwards. 



662. (498) Pericrocotus Solaris. The Yellow-Throated Minivet 



Blyth, J.A.8.B., xv., p. 310, (1846), Nepal to Tennasserim. ' 



663. (499) Pericrocotus roseus roseus. The Rosy Minivet. 



IMuscicapa rosea VieilL, Nouv. Diet. (THist Nat xxi 

 jy. 486 (1818), {Bengal). 



Himalayas and Burma to Tennasserim. 



664. (500) Pericrocotus peregrinus perigrinus. The Small 



Minivet. 

 Parus peregrinus Li7in., 8.N. i., p. 342 (1766), {no locality), 

 { Umbala). 



N.-W., W. and Central India to Bengal, Oudh and Behar. 



664. (500) Pericrocotus peregrinus vividus. The Burmese 



Small Minivet. 

 Stuart Baker, Bull. B.O.C. xl, p. 114 (1920), {Uttaran 

 River, Burma). 



Assam and E. Bengal, Burma, Siam and Cochin China. 



665. (500) Pericrocotus peregrinus malabaricus. The Ma- 



labar Small Minivet. 

 Parus malabaricus Gmel. Syct. Nat. i, p. 1012 (1789), 

 {3Ialabar). 



South India and Ceylon. 



* Bangs and Phillips (Bull. Mus. Coiup. Zool. Iviii., p. 283, 1914,) have made the 

 type locality of P. brerirostris " The Eastern Himalayas," but this camiot be 

 correct. This Minivet was described by Vigors as one of a collection of birds 

 received from the Himalayas and in this collection are sjxicimens of such purely 

 Western forms as Carduelis spinoides and Picus auriceps. McClelland fully 

 appreciated this when he very properly described the Assam bird and his name 

 of affinis must stand wliilst the type locality for irevirostris must be somewhere 

 in the Western Himalayas for which reason I designate Mussoorie. 



