130 BIRDS FROM PERAK: 
“No. 3¢.—¢. Irides brown. The female has a lighter 
head than the male. Fly usually in pairs or small parties.” 
A large representative of A. /arvatus, from which it differs 
in its purer grey colouration, blacker chin and cheeks, and 
by the colour of the under tail-coverts, which are white wash- 
ed with ashy grey. The under wing-coverts are also for the 
most part white, but in both these cases the plumage may not 
be fully mature. 
Adult male. General colour above uniform dark pearly 
grey, lesser wing-coverts like the back; median and greater 
coverts dark cindery grey, edged with pearly grey; bastard- 
wing, primary- coverts and quills black, fringed with ashy 
grey, margined with broader and paler grey on the seconda- 
ries, the innermost narrowly fringed with whitish at the ends; 
upper tail-coverts like the back; centre tail-feathers ashy grey, 
blackish towards the ends, the remainder black tipped with 
an ashy-grey spot, increasing in extent towards the outer- 
most, which is also pale ashy along the outer web; crown of 
head like the back; a line across the base of the forehead, 
lores, feathers round the eye, end fore part of cheeks black; 
sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat blackish, with 
an ashy shade, shading off paler on the lower throat and fore 
neck; remainder of under-surface of body deep pearly grey, 
a little lighter than the back; thighs dark slaty grey; under 
tail-coverts white, grey near the vent, the rest of the coverts 
marked with ashy grey; under wing-coverts grey, or grey 
varied with white bars; axillaries grey; quills below dusky, 
ashy white along the inner edge. ‘Total length 11 inches, 
culmen 1.05, wing 6.45, tail 4.4, tarsus 0.95. 
Pericrocotus igneus, Blyth; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv., p. 78; HUME 
Sie 879) P57 
“No. 53.—6. Irides brown. Not common. Only one 
specimen of this minivet was obtained.” 
Cryptolopha trivigata (Strickl.); Sharpe, Cat. B. iv., p. 398 
Salvad. t. c., p. 204. 
“No. 44.— 9. Irides dark brown.” 
Compared with specimens from West Java and Sumatra. 
Rhipidura albicollis (V.); Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 317. : 
“No. 31.—¢. Irides brown. These fantails are. restless 
