THE SMALL MINIVET. 
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intervening tract. To the east it probably extends to Myohla or Tamagan. 
I have never seen it west of the Irrawaddy. 
Mr. Blanford, who procured it at Thayetmyo, traced it as far as Pagan 
on the Irrawaddy^ about one hundred and fifty miles above the frontier. 
This small species is not infrequently seen in the immediate neighbour- 
hood of the Thayetmyo Cantonment^ in secondary jungle and low trees. 
It sometimes descends to the ground^ an action which I have never 
observed in any of the other Minivets. 
234. PERICROCOTUS PEREGRINUS. 
THE SMALL MINIVET. 
Parus peregrinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 342. Pericrocotus peregrinus, Jerd. 
B. Ind. i. p. 423 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 184 ; Sahad. TJce. Born. p. 145 ; 
Bl. Wald. B. Burm. p. 124 ; IIu?ne, S. F. i. p. 177, iii. p. 96 ; Sharpe, S. F. iv. 
p. 209 ; Hume, 8. F. v. p. 179, viii. p. 91 ; Oates, S. F. viii. p. 166 ; Legge, 
Birds Ceylon, p. 366 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 76. Pericrocotus 
malabaricus (G?n.), Hume, S. F. v. p. 182. 
Description, — Male. Feathers at the base of the upper mandible, the 
lores and in front of the eye blackish brown ; the whole head and neck, 
back and scapulars dull ashy ; rump and upper tail-coverts scarlet ; upper 
breast scarlet; lower breast and sides of the body scarlet, more or less 
mixed with yellow ; abdomen whitish ; vent and under tail-coverts yellow \ 
central pair of tail-feathers black ; the next pair also black, the others 
partly black and partly orange, the black occupying the base and increas- 
ing in extent interiorly ; under wing-coverts yellow ; wings dark brown, 
all the quills except the tertiaries and the first four primaries with an 
orange-yellow patch near the base, minute on the fifth primary but in- 
creasing in size interiorly ; lesser wing-coverts ashy_, margined paler ; 
greater coverts dark brown_, the middle ones tipped with orange-yellow ; 
primary-coverts dark brown. 
The female has the ashy of the upper parts lighter j the chin and throat 
whity brown ; the breast white tinged with yellow ; the abdomen, flanks, 
under wing-coverts, vent and under tail-coverts yellow ; the wmgs paler 
brown, and the wing- spot yellow ; the tail is as in the male, and the rump 
and upper tail-coverts are rather less brilliant. 
The young are like the female, but the ashy portions of the upper 
plumage are edged with whitish. 
Bill black ; inside of the mouth flesh-colour ; legs, toes and claws 
black. 
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