648 AYES, 



Genus PERiCROCOTUSjBoie. 

 145. Pericrocotus elegans, Mc'Clelland. 



Phcenicornis elegans, Mc^Clell.^ Proc. Zool. Soc.;, 1839^ p. 156. 



P ericrocoUis elegans, Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 282, 1846 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 95 ; t. c, 



p. 320 (note) ; id., op. cit., 1877, p. 194. 

 Pericrocotus rutilns, Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 335, 1869. 

 Pericrocotus speciosus, Sliarpe, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 206 (pars.) 



a. I.e. t Upper Burma, 14th & 18th January 1868. 

 d. % Sawady, 24th January 1875. 



e.f. g. ? juv. Bhamo, 28th January 1868. 

 h. i. k. S Ponsee, 14th March 1868. 



All these specimens belong to the small-billed form, wliich Mr. Hume has 

 doubtless rightly identified as the P. elegans of Mc'Clelland. It can scarcely be 

 reckoned anything but a race of the Himalayan P. speciosus, and in all probability 

 P. fraterculus of Swinhoe (Ibis, 1870, p. 244) and P. andamanensis, Ty tier (Ibis, 

 1867, p. 322,) should be united to it. 



This species is common in the month of March in the Kakhyen hills, and on 

 one occasion, during that month, I shot three out of a flock. The birds were 

 flying in and out of a high oak, Quercus fenestrata, which was then blossoming 

 and attracting insects. 



146. Pericrocotus brevirostris, Vigors, 



Muscipeta brevirostris, Yigors, R'oc. Zool. Soc, 1831, p. 43. 



Phcenicornis brevirostris, Gould, Cent. B., pi. viii, 1832 ; Jerdon, Madr. Journ., x, p. 243, 1839. 



Phmnicornis affinis, Mc^Clell., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 156 (§ ). 



Pericrocotus brevirostris. Gray, Gen, B., vol. i, p. 282, 1846; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, 



vol. xi, pp. 184, 192, vol. xv, p. 309, 1846 ; id., Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 193, 1849; 



Bonap. Consp. At., t. i, p. 357, 1850 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co. vol. i 



p. 141, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 421, 1862; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 334, 1869; 



Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 379; Henders. & Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 184, 1873 ; 



Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 183, 1873 ; Brooks, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 234; Butler 



& Hume, t.c., p. 465; Scully, t. c., p. 209; Ball, t. c, p. 232; Godwin- Austen, Journ. 



As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 71; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1877, pp. 29, 187; Butler, 



t. c., p. 228. 

 pericrocotus affinis, Gray, Gen. B., p. 282, 1846. 



a. $ Sawady, 30th January 1875. 



h. c. $ Bight bank of Tapeng River, 5th February 1875. 



d. S Nampoung, 19th February 1875. 



e. t Ponsee, 27th March 1868. 



/. t juv. Hotha, 13th August 1868. 



Elocks of from thirty to forty birds were not uncommon in the Kakhyen hills 

 i]i Pebruary, in the midst of a fine forest with little or no undergrowth. They 



