ORD. INSESSORES. 



TRIBE— DENTIROSTRES. 



FAM. LANIAD^. 

 SUB-FAM. CEBPLEPYRINE. 

 GEN. PH^NICORNIS. 



PLATE XI. 



PHJENICOJRNIS FLA3IMEUS. 



FIERY-RED BIRD. 



MALE AND FEMALE. 



Synon. — Muscicapa Jlainmea, Temtn. P. C. 263 — M. Subfiava, Vieillot? Gobe mouche 

 oranor de I' Isle de Ceylon, Levaillant ? 



Sayelee — Hindustani. 



The genus Plicenicornis was separated by Swainson, and is a very distinct and 

 weR cliaracterized group of birds. I see, however, that Mr. Gray, in his Genera of Birds, 

 considers Boie's genus Pericrocotus to be synonymous and to have the priority. As how- 

 ever Swainson's name has now been in considerable use in this country, and as there are 

 stni some doubts as to the exact identity of several of these supposed synonymous genera, 

 I have for the present retained our countryman's name till a Committee of Ornitholo- 

 gists has finally fixed on the name and limits of each genus, and till the names imposed 

 by oui- own Naturalists, when they have a prior claim, are fully acknowledged by Foreigners. 



This handsome bird is a denizen of all the large forests of Southern India. I 



