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smaller ; the fore-part of the wing underneath, with the band as there 

 seen, is deep yellow, and the axillaries are yellow, irregularly tipped 

 with red. Altogether the red is of a shade more igneous than in P. 

 speciosus, but considerably less so than in P.flammeus. The female 

 I have not seen. Described from Malacca specimens. 



6. P. Solaris,* nobis, n. s. Length about seven inches and a half, of 

 wing three and three-eighths, and tail four inches; bill to gape five- 

 eighths, and tarse nearly five-eighths. Male fuliginous-ashy above, 

 verging to black on the wings, and quite black on the tail ; the rump, 

 wing-spot, greater portion of the three outer tail-feathers, [and the 

 under- parts, bright reddish flame-colour (or as in P. flammeus) ; 

 throat orange-yellow, and the ear-coverts pale grey : bill and feet 

 blackish. The female has the head dark ashy, like the male, but the 

 back olive-green, and the flame-colour of the male is replaced by 

 yellow ; sides of the throat whitish. The bill of this species is broader 

 and shorter than in the others. It is common at Darjeeling. 



7- P- roseus ; Muscicapa rosea, Vieillot : P hcenicornis ajjinis, 

 McClelland and Horsfieldt. Not rare in Lower Bengal ; and occurs 

 also in Assam, Arracan, and in the forests of Malabar. 



8. P. peregrinus ; Parus peregrinus, Lin. India generally. 



9. P. erythropygius ; Muscicapa erythropygia, Jerdon : Cawnpore 

 Flycatcher, and Turdus speciosus, var. B , of Latham. — South India, 

 Upper Bengal. (?) This is a very aberrant species, and even separable 

 as a subgroup ; deviating, as remarked by Mr. Jerdon, in " its more 

 depressed bill, weaker legs and feet, and in the mode of variation of 

 the female. In its colour," he adds, " the male resembles most of the 

 species of Pericrocolus, except in having a white stripe on the wings, 

 and on some of the tail-feathers. The female differs from the male 

 in having ashy-brown instead of glossy-black, and cinereous-white 

 where the male has bright orange-red. The irides also are light- 

 coloured." It seems, in fact, to be an intermediate form between 

 Pericrocotus and Hemipus of Hodgson (p. 305 ante) ; near which latter 

 Mr. Jerdon formerly arranged it, considering it allied to H. picatus%. 



* In some collections which have gone to Europe, I have called this species P. 

 Jlavogularis, MS. 



f Identified from Dr. McClelland's unpublished figures. 



X Add, as a doubtful member of the group, P hcenicornis'? aureopygia, A. Hay, from 

 Hongkong; Madr. Journ. No. XXXI, 158: also, probably, Lanius cruentus of the 

 Diet. Class. D' Hist. Nat., from Java. 



