KUNQL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 56. N':o 2. l'-\ 



132. Pericrocotus peregrinus. Linn. — The Small Minivet. 



Pericrocotus peregrinus: Gyldenstolpe I p. 33; Gyldenstolpe III p. 108; Williamson T p. 43; Williamsou II p. 90. 



J 1 Koon Tan »"/« 1914. L = 178 mm.; W= 70 mm.; T = 77 mm.; C = 9 mm. $ Koon Tan * 9 /t 

 1914. L= 174 mm.; W = 70,5 mm.; T — 75 mm.; C= !) mm. — Irides: black. Bill: black. Legs: black. 



The small Minivet is generally clistributed över the northern parts of the country 

 thongli not very common. Most of ten it was observed in small flocks visiting the pine 

 förests on the tops of the higher hills but sometimes they were even met with at the out- 

 skirts of the jungles. This species was ne ver observed in company with other kind 

 of Minivets. 



133. Pericrocotus solaris griseigularis. Gould. 



J 1 Koon Tan 21 /:, 1914. L = 171 mm.; W = 81 mm.; T = 93 mm.; C = 10,5 mm.; Tarsus = 12 mm. 

 — Irides: browu. Bill: black. Legs: black. 



This species which is closely related to Pericrocotus solaris Blyth. from the Eastern 

 Himalayas, Khasi Hills, Manipur, Pegu, Siarn and Tenasserim, has previously only been 

 recorded from the island of Formosa and parts of Southern China. Swinhoe says that 

 the main points of difference between P. griseigularis and P. solaris are, that in »the for- 

 mer the thigh- feathers are black externally, ochraceous internally, while in the latter the 

 thighs are orange». As shown by Hume (Stray Feathers 1877. Vol. V, p. 1 87 ) the thighs 

 in P. solaris are not orange but dusky black externally and yellowish or ochraceous inter- 

 nally in the male. 



The thighs in my specimen, which I without hesitation have identified with P. 

 griseigularis are brownish black with a faint greenish tinge externally and påle yellowish 

 internally. The first two primaries are lacking the red or yellowish patch, on the third 

 primary there is a narrow yellowish line along the outer web; on the fourth there is an 

 orange scarlet spöt on the middle part of the outer web of about 11 mm. in length. On 

 the inner webs of the primaries, with exception of the first one, there is a yellowish spöt 

 increasing in size on the latter primaries. On the secondaries there is a broad band of 

 orange scarlet on about the middle parts of the feathers. Head, nape and back dark 

 slaty grey with a bluish gloss; ramp and upper tail-coverts fiery orange scarlet; chin and 

 throat grey with yellowish tips on some of the feathers, especially those of the throat 

 passing över on the scarlet underparts of the body. The two central pairs of tail-f eathers 

 are black with a narrow line of yellow on the middle parts of the outer webs and an oblique 

 orange scarlet spöt on the innerweb; tip of tail-f eathers påle orange. 



The specimen was shot out of a party of Pericrocotus assembled in a pine-tree 

 growing on the top of one of the highest hills in the Koon Tan range. 



My specimen is exactly similar to another specimen from Formosa in the collec- 

 tions of the R. Nat.-Hist. Museum in Stockholm. 



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