THE ASHY MINI VET. 
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may belong to this new species. The female has the chin and throat 
a brighter yellow than is usual in P. brevirostrisj and the upper plumage a 
duller ash ; but it is^ after all, barely distinguishable from numerous 
examples of the Indian bird. I append a description of P. neglectus in 
Mr. Hume^s own words'^. 
Mr. Blyth gives Arrakan as a locality for this species. I have never met 
with it myself, either in that Division or in Pegu. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
procured it in Karennee at 3000 feet elevation ; and Mr. Davison secured 
an imperfect specimen in the pine-forests of the Salween, about which 
Mr. Hume entertains doubts as to whether it may not be P. neglectus. 
Out of British Burmah it has a very extensive range. It was procured 
to the east of Bhamo by Dr. Anderson. Thence it seems to occur 
throughout the hill-ranges of Eastern Bengal and along the whole 
Himalayan range to Cashmeer. Capt. Wardlaw Hamsay observed it 
in Afghanistan; and it has been procured in North Guzerat and the 
Deccan_, which appears to be about its southern limit. 
To the east it is found in China. Pere David says that it passes Pekin 
on migration ; some couples nest in the wooded mountains of this province, 
but the majority pass the summer in Mantchuria. 
231. PERICROCOTUS CINEREUS. 
THE ASHY MINIVET. 
Pericrocotus cinereus, Lafres. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 94 ; Sharpe, S. F. iv. p. 211 ; 
Hume, S. F. v. p. 175 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 137 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. 
Mus. iv. p. 83 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 200. Pericrocotus modestus, StricM. 
P. Z. S. 1846, p. 102. Pericrocotus motacilloides, Stvinh. P. Z. S. 1860, 
p. 58. 
Description. — Male. Forehead^ front of the head, cheeks, sides of the 
neck, chin, throat and under tail-coverts pure white ; remainder of lower 
* PERICROCOTUS NEaLECTUS. 
HUME'S MINIVET. 
Pericrocotus neglectus, Hume, S. F. v. p. 189 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. 
p. 80; Hume, S.F. viii. p. 91. 
" It is clearly a miniature representative of P. h^evirostris, and like it has tlie first four 
primaries in both sexes plain on the outer webs. 
" The total length varies from 6-5 to 6*8; the tail from 3*0 to 3'25 ; the wings varied — 
males' 3-25, 3'3, females' 3-2, 3-37, 3-32. 
Seeing, however, that the Eastern form of P. brevirostris is smaller than the Western, 
I should not have separated these birds, though much smaller than the smallest Sikhim 
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