PEEICEOCOT0S PEEEGEINUS. 
(THE LITTLE MINIVET.) 
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Parus peregrinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 342 (1766). 
Muscicapa flammea, Forster, Ind. Zool. pi. 15. fig. 2 (1781). 
Phoenicornis peregrina, Gould, Cent. Him. B. pi. 9 (1832); Jerd. Cat. B. S. India, Madr. 
Journ. 1839, x. p. 244. 
Pericrocotus peregrirms, Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 282 (1845) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus, A. S. B. 
p. 193 (1849) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 123 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. &. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 127 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. p. 140 (1854) ; Gould, 
B. of Asia, pt. ix. (1857); Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 423 (1862) ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 
1872, p. 438 ; Hume, Nests & Eggs (Eough Draft), p. 184 (1873) ; id. Str. Feath. 1873, 
p. 184; id. ibid. 1874, p. 209; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 284; Sharpe, Str. Feath. 1876, 
p. 209; Armstrong, t.c. p. 318; Hume, ibid. 1877, p. 179; Tweeddale, Ibis, 1877, 
p. 315 ; Flume and Davison, Str. Feath. 1878 (Birds of Tenass.), p. 212 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
B. iv. p. 76 (1879). 
The Crimson-rwmped Flycatcher, The Malabar Titmouse, Latham ; Small Peel Flycatcher, 
Sportsmen in Ceylon. 
Bulal-chasm, Hind. ; also Sath-sayili and Chota sath saki Tcapi, Bengal. ; Kunkum-pu-jitta, 
Telugu (Jerdon) ; Batu gene kurula or Kos-kunda, Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female. Length 5-8 to 6-0 inches ; wing 2-6 to 2-75 ; tail 2-G to 2-7; tarsus 0-65 ; mid toe and claw 
0‘55 ; bill to gape 0‘58 to 0‘6. 
Male. Iris sepia-brown ; bill black ; legs and feet black.. 
Forehead and head above, hind neck, and back dark ashy ; lores, face, ear-coverts, chin and throat, wings, and three 
central pairs of tail-feathers, with the bases of the remainder, black ; upper tail-coverts, a band across the 
Becondarie,s, and all the primaries but the first four (in all specimens I have seen), breast, and flanks flame-red or 
scarlet, palest on the wings ; two outer rectrices on each side and a terminal spot on the next pair orange-red ; 
abdomen yellowish red, blending into the scarlet of the breast ; under tail- and under wing-coverts yellowish red ; 
thighs blackish. 
Female. Iris and bill as in the male ; legs and feet brownish black. 
The upper parts, which in the male are ashy, are in the female brownish cinereous ; wings aud tail brownish black, 
with the same markings as in the male but of a more yellowi.sh colour ; upper tail-coverts scarlet, gradually 
blending with a greenish hue into the brownish grey of the back ; aboye the lores, which are concolorous with 
the crown, a whitish stripe extending to the anterior upper edge of the eye ; beneath whitish grey, washed with 
orange-yellowish, which becomes the ground-colour on the lower parts ; under tail-coverts pale orange-red, 
concolorous with the outer tail-feathers ; under wing-coverts yellowish red. 
Oha. In India this species varies to an extraordinary extent in the tone of the orange coloration, which is particularly 
noticeable in the wing-markings. Mr. Hume, in an exhaustive article on the species (‘ Stray Feathers,’ 1877, 
p- 179)5 gives the result of his elaborate researches into the question, from which it may be gathered that males 
vary in their colours from the blackish iron-grey mantle aud orange-scarlet of the breast, abdomen, under tail- 
coverts, rump, and wing-spot observable in specimens from the extreme south of India, to the pale grey mantle, 
greyish dusky throat, whitish lower parts (tinged with fiery saffron on the breast), and mingled pale yellow and 
pale scarlet rump and wing-spot existing in specimens from Sindh. Elsewhere, in the same journal for 1878, 
he remarks that the deepest-coloured specimens are from peninsular India, then those from Lower Bengal and 
the eastern portions of the Central Provinces are somewhat paler, those from the rest of the Central Provinces, 
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