CATALOGUE. 
143 
d. Drawing ^ {P. elegans, McClell.) Assam. Pre- 
sented by J. McClelland, Esq. 
f. Kumaon. From Captain R. Strachey's Collection. 
" This species is tolerably abundant in most of the lofty jungles 
of Southern India. I have also seen it in Travancore, Malabar, the 
Whynaad, and the forest skirting the base of the Neilgherries, and 
even as high as five thousand feet on the Coonoor pass. It ascends 
the sides of mountain ranges, and I fancied was more numerous in the 
elevated region of "Wynaad than in most other localities. It is a 
tolerably common and abundant species in its appropriate haunts, 
and from its bright and showy colours attracts the notice of most 
travellers through the lofty forests of Western India. It keeps 
chiefly to the tops of high trees, where it may be seen, singly or in 
flocks of three or four, and the sexes are generally seen apart from 
each other, all frisking about, picking an insect or larva off" a branch 
or leaf, or occasionally catching one in the air ; the males keep up a 
continual whistling call." — (Jerd. Madr. Journ. L. S. X. p. 244, et 
111. Ind. Orn.) 
Colonel Sykes informs us " the cry of this bird is wheet, wheet, 
wheet."- (P. Z. S. 1832, p. 85.) 
186. PERICROCOTUS SPECI0SU8, Lath. Sp. 
Turdus speciosus, Lath., Ind. Orn. I. p. 363 ; Hist. Y. 
p. 96. Br. F. (B.) Hamilton, MS. II. p. 91. 
Pericrocotus speciosus, Strichl. G. M. Gray, Gen. of 
Birds, I. p. 282. Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. XY. 
p. 309 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 192. Bonap., 
a G. Av. p. 357. 
Muscipeta princeps, Vigors, P. Z. S. (1830), p. 22. 
Phoenicornis princeps, Gould, Cent. t. 7. McClell., P. Z. 
S. (1839), p. 156. Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. X. 
p. 243. 
Black and Scarlet Thrush, Lath. 
Shah Soki-kapir, Hind., Br. F. (B.) Hamilton. 
Nget-meng-tha (" Prince-bird "), Arracan, Blyth. 
Sahelee, Himalayas, Boyle. 
A. and Drawing ^. Assam. Presented by J. McClel- 
land, Esq. 
