IQI5.] H. C. Rosinson: Species of Minivets. 33 
Adult male:—Head all round, throat, mantle, greater part 
of the primaries and secondaries, wing-coverts, centre pair of 
tail feathers greater part of the second innermost pair and the 
bases of the other pairs in a lessening degree glossy black. 
External aspect of the wings with a broad diagonal bar of 
orange red, starting on the fourth primary and extending to 
the innermost tertials, the last tertial only entirely black; inner 
aspect of the wing with a similar lemon yellow bar formed by 
patches on the inner webs of the primaries and secondaries; 
rump and upper tail coverts, under surface except the throat 
and those parts of the tail feathers that are not black, vermilion 
orange, more crimson on the rump, the bases of the feathers 
chrome. Axillaries and under wing coverts, chrome, tipped 
with orange red, their bases black, thighs black. Angle of the 
wing orange chrome. 
Adult female:—Those portions of the plumage that are 
glossy black in the male, grey with a faint yellowish cast, 
blacker on the wing and tail feathers; a frontal band and eye 
ring orange chrome, this colour extending as a short superciliary 
beyond the eye. Under surface chrome yellow, under wing 
coverts and wing band similar, lower back and upper tail coverts 
vermilion, light portion of the tail orange yellow, suffused with 
vermilion, thighs mingled greyish and yellow. . 
Immature :—Resemble the female but are brownish above, 
each feather edged with yellowish white, frontal band and eye 
ring absent; beneath pale fuscous faintly barred with brownish 
white, the middle of the abdomen pale yellow. 
: total length, 5.75; wing, 2.9;. 
tail 2.8 in. 
Adult female: total length 5.5; wing 2.75; tail 2.8 in. 
Localities in the Peninsula:—Siamese Malay States: Bandon, 
Ban Kok Klap (July). Perak: Temongoh (July); Parit 
(September). Selangor: Ulu Gombak (September); Klang 
Gates (January); Ginting Bidai, 2,300’ (May); Cheras (March). 
Negri Sembilan: Gunong Tampin (September). North Johore: 
Segamat, Padang Tuan (September). East Johore: Tanjong 
Leman (June). 
Notes:—This species is resident and breeds in the country 
apparently from May to June. It is fairly common along the 
east coast among Casuarinas and in forest country up to about 
2,500’ but is everywhere much scarcer than either P. montanus 
or P. zanthogaster, nor is it found in such large flocks. 
PERICROcOTUS MoNTANUS. Wray’s Minivet. 
Pericrocotus montanus, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv, p. 205 
(1879) (Mt. Singalan, W. Sumatra); Sharpe, Ibis, 1889, p. 193 
(Kinabalu, N. Borneo, 8,000’ ); 1d Ibis, 1892, p. 435) Mt. Dulit, 
Borneo, 5,000’); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xil, p. 54 (1891) 
(Toba Lake, Central Sumatra); Hartert Nov. Zool) Ix, p. 554 
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