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claim whatever to specific rank, but is only a slightly larger 
form of the Sumatran and Bornean P. xanthogaster. Raffles 
with the female slightly more brightly coloured. None of the 
Peninsula ex: imples are as large as those of Hume’s series from 
Tenasserim, though northern specimens are decidedly larger 
than those from Johore and from authentic specimens of 
P. xanthogaster from Sumatra and Borneo with which I have 
compared them. The presence or absence of red on the outer 
web of the fourth primary of the male, seems to be of little 
diagonistic importance though it is more frequently absent in 
southern than in northern peninsular specimens. It is present 
in three out of four Sumatran specimens and in both the 
Bornean skins which I have examined. 
Pericrocotus xanthogaster subsp. xanthogaster. 
Raffles’ Minivet. 
Lantus xanthogaster, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, p. 309 
(1822). Pericrocotus xanthogaster, Sharpe, Stray Feath. iv, 
p. 208 (1876); Tweedd. Ibis, 1877 p. 315; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
BiiianMnise ive 1p. 740 (1870) 3 Necholsonm, bis 11883, p: 46, 
Butttkofer, Notes Levd. Mus. ix, p. 46 (1887). Pericrocotus 
ardens, Bp. Consp. 1, p. 357 (1851); Hume, Stray Feath, v, p. 
196 (1877). 
Pericrocotus subardens, Hume, Stray Feath. v, p. 196. 
Adult male.—Practically indistinguishable from that of P.. 
xanthogaster flammifer but slightly smaller in size. 
Aduit female.—Yellow on the forehead, more restricted, and 
tint of the lower back and rump and under surface more 
suffused with greenish olive. 
Dimenstons.—Adult male.—Total length, 6.4; wing, 3.15; 
(eal, io3e Aisle 
Adult female.—Total length, 6.7; wing, 
ROSE tiaull, Bei. 
Localities in the Peninsula—Negri Sembilan: Bukit 
Tangga (January, July). Pahang: Krau River (November). 
North Johore: Segamat, Padang Tuan (February). Malacca 
(Brit. Mus.). South Johore (Hume Coll.). Singapore (Brit. 
Mus.). 
Remarks.—Owing to the comparatively small series avail- 
able, especially of females, the identification of the bird from 
the southern third of the Malay Peninsula with that from 
Sumatra and Borneo is not altogether certain, though it is 
probably correct. South of the termination of the main range 
in Southern Selangor the bird is decidedly rare and but few 
specimens are on record. In Sumatra and Borneo it appears 
to be fairly common. 
