244 BIEDS OF BRITISH BUEMAH. 
Of its distribution in China^ Mr. Swinhoe remarks : — " Northwards to 
Foochow and westwards to Szechuen.''^ Pere David says : — ^^It is found 
commonly in spring in the interior of Tchekiang and Kiangsi, where it 
breeds in great numbers. In autumn it quits Central China for the 
Indo-Chinese countries.''^ 
233. PERICROCOTUS ALBIFRONS. 
JERDON'S MINIVET. 
Pericrocotus albifrons, Jerd. Ibis, 1862, p. 20 ; Bl B. Burm. p. 124 ; Hume, S. F. 
iii. p. 96 ; Sharpe, S. F. iv. p. 212 ; Hume, S. F. v. p. 178 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
B. Mus. iv. p. 86 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 91. 
Description. — Male. The forehead^ a broad supercilium, cheeks^ sides of 
the neck nearly meeting behind on the nape^ chin and throat white ; the 
lores^ ear-coverts_, top of head^ back^ scapulars^ upper tail-coverts, lesser 
wing-coverts and primary-coverts glossy black ; rump and breast orange- 
red ; greater wing-coverts black broadly tipped with white, forming a 
broad band on the wing ; primaries black, with an oblique patch of white 
on all but the first five feathers ; secondaries black with the bases white ; 
tertiaries white, with a large black oblique patch in the centre of each 
feather ; breast, belly and under tail- coverts white ; the two central pairs 
of tail-feathers wholly black; the others black, broadly tipped with 
white. 
The female differs in having those parts sooty brown which are black in 
the male ; the white parts are less pure, there is merely a trace of red on 
the rump, and the red is wholly wanting on the breast. 
Bill and legs black ; iris dark brown ; eyelids grey ; inside of mouth 
flesh-colour. 
Length 6*5 inches, tail 3*4, wing 2*5, tarsus -6, bill from gape '54. The 
female is quite as large as the male. 
This pretty species is deserving of generic separation from the others 
owing to the disproportionate length of the tail, which is longer than the 
wing by more than the length of the tarsus, whereas in the other species 
of Pericrocotus the tail and wing are about equal. I confine myself, 
however, to pointing this out without instituting a genus for its re- 
ception. 
Jerdon's Minivet has a very limited range. First discovered at Thayet- 
myo by Dr. J erdon, it has since remained a very local species. I have 
procured it at Palow, about fifteen miles south of Thayetmyo and in the 
