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with their terminal two-thirds scarlet; axillaries and under 
wing coverts orange, the bases of the former black; thighs 
black; rest of the plumage brilliant scarlet orange, more 
scarlet on the rump and upper tail coverts, the bases of the 
feathers of the abdomen orange chrome. Bill and feet black, 
iris dark hazel. 
Adult female-—Head behind the level of the eyes, nape, 
mantle and scapulars grey, slightly suffused with greenish. 
Forehead to the eyes, a patch round the eyes and a short 
superciliary stripe, extending slightly beyond the eyes bright 
chrome yellow. Stripe from the nostrils to the eyes, blackish. 
Lower back, rump and upper tail coverts, greenish yellow. 
Whole under surface bright chrome yellow, the lower of the 
feathers of the abdomen white; the thighs mingled brownish 
and yellow. Wings black, the first four primaries uniform on 
the outer web, the remainder with a diagonal chrome yellow 
bar. Secondaries and tertials with their basal third chrome 
yellow and with elongated isolated drops of the same colour 
on the outer webs. Lesser wing coverts greyish, except on the 
angle of the wing; greater ones black, their tips chrome 
yellow. Under wing coverts pale yellow and fuscous, the 
axillaries yellow with their bases, blackish. Innermost pair 
of tail feathers entirely black, the next pair mainly black, the 
third pair about half black, the black regularly diminishing to 
the outermost pair in which only the basal third or fourth is 
black ; remainder of the feathers pure chrome yellow. 
Dimensions.—Adult male. Total length, 6.75; wing, 3.38 ; 
tail, 3.25 in. 
Adult female. Total length, 6.75 ; wing 3.4; 
tail, 3.25 in. 
Immature.—The not fully adult birds of both sexes resem- 
ble the adult female, from which garb the male changes into 
the adult dress in part by a deepening of the pure yellow 
feathers to orange and thence to vermilion scarlet, this change 
being very well shown in the large series in the Selangor 
Museum. Still younger birds have the yellow colour beneath 
duller, the feathers of the head and mantle with white margins, 
and the primaries edged with white. 
Localities in the Peninsula:—Siamese Malay States: 
Bandon (June); Trang (November, December, January). 
Perlis: Pelarit (November). Perak: Temongoh (July); Taiping 
(July). Selangor: Semangko Pass, 2,700’ (February) ; Bukit 
Kutu (August) ; Klang Gates (January) ; Ginting Biiglai. 2,300’ 
(September) ; Ulu Gombak (September). Pahang: Bentong 
(June). 
Notes :—This race is widely spread throughout the Penin- 
sula in submontane country, ranging up to about 3,000’ in 
altitude, above which its place is taken by P. montanus. As is 
the case with many other species originally described from 
Southern Tenasserim by Hume it is evident that it has no 
