1915. ] H. C. Rosinson: Species of Minivets. 35 
Dimensions.—Adult male—Total length, 6.7; wing, 3.15; 
tail 3.9 in. 
Adult female—Total length, 6.7; wing, 3.1; 
tail, 3.8 in. 
Localities in the Peninsula. Perak: Larut Hills, 3—4,000’ 
(October); Gunong Kerbau, 5,000! (March); Telom, Perak 
Paharg Boundary 3—4,o00' (September, November, Decem- 
ber). Pahang: Gunong Tahan, 5,000’ (July). Selangor: 
Bukit Fraser, 4,000’ (October): Semangko Pass, Selangor, 
Pahang border (February, March, November) Gunong Meng- 
kuang Lebah, 5,000’ (January, March); Gunong Menuang 
~Gasing, Ulu Langat, 4,000’ (May). Elsewhere common in the 
high mountains of Borneo and Sumatra. 
Notes.—As the synonymy shows this species which is fairly 
wide, ranging over elevated land in the Malayan region, has 
received numerous names, partly owing to the fact that the 
colour of the throat in the male is very variable, ranging from 
a light grey to an almost glossy black, while the immature 
birds of both sexes differ from the adult female. 
The large series before me, which includes topotypes of 
Salvadori’s P. montanus, comprises specimens which can be 
referred to all the nominal species from one and the same 
locality and all, therefore, have to be included under Salva- 
dort’s as the earliest name, as has already been pointed out by 
Hartert. Judging from the dates of immature skins in the 
Museum the species probably begins to breed in the Peninsula 
about December or January. 
Pericrocotus xanthogaster, subsp. flammifer. 
Davison’s Minivet. 
Pericrocotus flammifer, Hume, Stray Feath. iii, p. 321 
(1875); 7d op. cit. v, pp. 175, 195 (1877); Hume & Davison, 
op. cit. vi, p. 211 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iv, p. 74 (1879) ; 
Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, 1, p. 477 (1889); Ogilvie Grant, 
Fascic. Malay. Zool. i, p. gt (1905); Robinson, Journ. Fed. 
Malay States Mus. ii, p. 192 (1908) Robinson & Kloss, Ibis, 1911, 
P- 54- 
Pericrocotus speciosus fraterculus (nec. Swinhoe), Butler, 
Journ. Straits Branch Royal. Asiat. Soc. No. 32, p. 17 (1899) ; 
Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1x, p. 555 (1902). 
Adult male-—Head all round, nape, mantle, throat, outer 
and lesser wing coverts glossy black. Inner webs of central 
pair of tail feathers and bases of the remainder, black, the 
black lessening towards the outer pairs. Primaries, secondaries 
and tertials black, with an oblique bar of crimson scarlet on 
the primaries, beginning on the outer web of the fourth 
primary; secondaries and all but the innermost tertials with 
their basal halves scarlet; the inner tertials with isolated 
drops of scarlet on their outer webs; inner primary coverts 
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