Genus PERICROCOTUS. 



Bill not so massive as in Graucalus ; culmen straighter and more suddenly bent down at the 

 tip, which is plainly notched. Nostrils oval, placed in a depression concealed by the plumes ; 

 rictal bristles feeble. Wings pointed ; the 4th and 5th quills subequal and longest ; the 1st 

 and 2nd in the same proportion as in the last genus. Tail long, much graduated. Legs and feet 

 small. 



Of brilliant plumage; sexes differing in coloration. 



PERICROCOTUS FLAMMEUS. 



(THE ORANGE MINIVET.) 



Muscicapa flammea, Forster, Indische Zoologie, p. 25, pi. 15 (1781). 



Plioenicomis flammeus, Swainson, Zool. 111. 2nd ser. pi. 52 (1831); Jerdon, Cat. B. S. India, 

 Madr. Journ. 1839, x. p. 244 ; id. 111. Ind. Orn. pi. 11 (1847). 



Pericrocotus flammeus, Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 282 (1845) ; Blyth, Cat. B. M. A. S. B. p. 192 

 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 123 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1854, xiii. p. 127 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 142 (1854) ; Gould, B. of 

 Asia, pt. ix. (1857) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 420 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 438 ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs, p. 182 (1873); Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 288; Sharpe, Str. Feath. 1876, 

 p. 208; Hume, ibid. p. 394, et 1877, p. 197; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, iv. p. 75 (1879). 



Flammeous Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Hist. ; The Elegant Bed Flycatcher, Kelaart; Sultan-bird, 

 Europeans in Ceylon ; Orange red Bird, Swainson. 



Phari-Balal-chasm, Hind., Jerdon. 



Gene-lmrula, Sinhalese. 



Adult male. Length 7 - 7 to 7-85 inches ; wing 3"5 to 3-G : tail 3-5 to 3-0 ; tarsus 0-65 ; mid toe and claw 065 to 0-7 : 

 bill to gape 09. 



Iris reddish brown; bill, legs, and feet black. 



Entire head, throat, hind neck, upper part of back, wings, central rectrices, nearly the whole of the adjacent pair, and 

 the basal half of the others black, highly glossed on the head, throat, and back ; under surface from the throat 

 downwards, under tail-coverts, the tip and terminal half of the outer web of the above-mentioned central tail- 

 feathers, the terminal half of the rest, a band across the wing, commencing on the outer web of the 5th primary, 

 the tips of the greater secondary wing-coverts, and an external spot near the tips of the inner secondaries fiery 

 orange-red, most intense on the chest, tail-feathers, and upper tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and under surface 

 of the scarlet wing -band, as also an inner marginal spot on the 3rd and 4th primaries, pale yellowish red ; thighs 

 dusky black. 



Female. Smaller than the male ; wing 3-4 to 3-5 inches. 



Iris brown ; head, back of neck, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts dark bluish ashy ; the forehead and that portion of 

 the wings and tail which is red in the male, together ' with the entire under surface, primrose-yellow ; the wing- 

 spot commences on the 5th primary ; lores dark grey; the yellow of the forehead produced above the eye ; quills 

 and tail dusky blackish ; rump and upper tail-coverts greenish yellow, blending into the hue of the back. 



Young. Iris brown. 



Immature males are clothed in the garb of the female. A specimen in my collection assuming the adult plumage has 

 the head, hind neck, back, and wing-coverts bluish grey, intermingled with black feathers ; throat yellow, mixed 



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