Genus P e r i c r o c o t u s , Boié.
145. P e r ic r o c o t u s e l e g a n s , Mc’Clelland.
Phcenicomis elegans, Mc’Clell., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1839, p. 156.
Pericrocotus elegans, Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 283,1846; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 95; t. c.,
p. 82Ó (note) ; id., op. cit., 3877, p. 194.
Pericrocotus rutilus, Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 835, 1869.
Pericrocotus speciosus, Sharpe, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 206 (pars.)
a.b.c. 6 Upper Burma, 14th & 18th January 1868.
d. ? Sawady, 24th January 1875.
e .f g. 9 juv. Bhamó, 28th January 1868.
h. i. k. $ Ponsee, 14th March 1868.
All these specimens belong to the small-hilled form, which Mr. Hume has
doubtless rightly identified as the P. elegans of Mc’Clelland. I t can scarcely he
reckoned anything hut a race of the Himalayan P . speciosus, and in all probability
P . fraterculm of Swinhoe (Ibis, 1870, p. 244) and P. widammensis, Tytler (Ibis,
1867, p. 322,) should be united to it.
This species is common in the month of March in the Kakhyen hills, and on
one occasion, during that month, I shot three out of a flock. The birds were
flying in and out of a high oak, Quercus fenestrata, which was then blossoming
and attracting insects.
146. P e r ic r o c o t u s b r e v ir o s t r i s , Vigors.
Musdpeta brevirostris, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1881, p. 48.
Phcenicomis brevirostris, Gould, Cent. B., pi. viii, 1832 ; Jerdon, Madr. Joura., x, p. 243, 1839.
Phcenicomis affinis, Mc’Clell., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1889, p. 156 (8 ).
Pericrocotus brevirostris, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. ,282, 1846; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal,
vol. xi, pp. 184, 192, vol. xv, p. 809, 1846 ; id., Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 193, 1849 ;
Bonap. Consp. At., t. i, p. 857, 1850 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i,
p. 141, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i,. p. 421, 1862 ; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 884, 1869;
Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 379 ; Henders. & Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 184, 1878 ;
Hume, Nests and Eggs, Lid. B., p. 183, 1873 ; Brooks, Stray Feathers', 1875, p. 234; Butler
& Hume, i.e., p. 465; Scully, t. c., p. 209; Ball, t. c., p. 232; Godwin-Austen, Journ.
As. Soc.> Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 71; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1877, pp. 29, 187 ; Butler,
t. c., p. 228.
Pericrocotus affinis, Gray, Gen. B., p. 282, 1846.
a. t Sawady, 80th January 1875.
b.'c. ? Bight bank o£ Tapeng Biver, 5th February 1875.
d. 8 Nampoung, 19th February 1875.
e. $ Ponsee, 27th March 1868.
f . è juv. Hotha, 13th August 1868.
Blocks of from thirty to forty birds were not uncommon in the Kakhyen hills
in February, in the midst of a fine forest with little or no undergrowth. They
frequented the summits of the trees, alighting for a few minutes, moving rapidly
through the branches, flying outwards and back again, and then ma,king off to
another tree, and being ever constantly on the move. I t is not at all common in
the higher regions of the hills, but it is interesting to observe that I obtained a young
male in August at an elevation of 4 ,8 0 0 feet.
1 4 7 . P e r ic r o c o t u s r o s eu s , Vieill.
Muscicapa rosea, Vieill., N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., xvi, p. 486, 1818.
Phcenicomis affinis, Mc'Clell., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1839, p. 157.
Pericrocotus roseus, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 282, 1846 ; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xv,
p. 310, 1846 ; id., Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 198, ] 849 ; Bonap. Consp. Av., t. i,
p. 856, 1850; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 141, 1854; Gould,
B. Asia, pt. ix, 1857 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 422, 1862; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind.
B., p . 184, 1874.
Phcenicomis roseus, Jerdon, HI. Ind. Om., text to pi. xi, 1849.
a. b. 8 Muangla, Sanda valley, May 1868.
I shot this species in an isolated thickly-wooded hill behind the town of
Muangla in the Province of Yunnan. All the hills around are grassy a.nd free
of trees, with the exception of a few small pines (JPinm khasctyanus), and the
lower portions of the high ranges of mountain that define the valley have been
cleared of forest, so that the number of species occurring in the valley is small.
Family—EIR UNDINIBÆ. •
G e n u s H i r u n d o , L in n æ u s .
1 4 8 . H ir u n d o r u s t ic a , L in n .
l ’Hirondelle des Chéminêes, Briss. Om., t. ii, p. 486, 1760 ; Month., PI. Enl., t. vii, pi. 543
fig. 1, 1788.
Hirundo rustica, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 343, 1766 ; Lath., Ind. Om., vol. ii, p. 572,1790 ; Temm.,
Man. d’Orn., t. i, p. 427, 1820; Menétr., Cat. Bais. Zool. Caucas., p. 45, 1882; Selby, 111.
Om., voL i, p. 120, 1838 ; Gould, B. Eur., vol. ii, pi. liv, 1837 ; Macgill, Brit. B., vol. iii,
p. 558, 1840; Demid. Voy., t. iii, p. 201, 1840; Yarrell, Brit. B., vol. ii, p. 213, 1843;
Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 57, 1845; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., t. i, p. 388, 1850; Kjarb.,
Om. Dan., taf. xiv, fig. 1, 1851; Middend, Sibir. Beis.,p. 188, 1851; Sundev., Svensk. Fogl.,
xvii, fig. 5, 1856; Schleg., Vog. Nederl., pi. lvii, 1858; Jaub. & Lapomm., p. 307, 1859;
Linderm., Vog. Griechenl., p. 117, 1860 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 157, 1862 ; Degl. & Gerbe,
Om. Eur. Filippi, Viagg. Pers., p. 846, 1865; p. 587, 1867; Loche, ExpL Sci., Alger. Ois.,
vol. ii, p. 64, 1867 ; Stoliczka, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 17 ; King, op. cit.,
p. 214; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 68, 1869; Doderl., Avif. Sicil., p. 143, 1869; Godwin-
Austen, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, p. 94, 1870; Blanford, Geol. Zool. Abyss.,
p. 847, 1870; Finsch. & Hartl., Vog. Ost. Afr., p. 184, 1870; Fritsch., Vog.'Deutschl.,
taf- 23, fig. 4, 1871; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. Sôc., 1872, p. 418; Salvad., Faun. Ital. Ucc.,
p. 51, 1872 ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 120, 1872; Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotn., 1878, p. 67; Ball,
Stray Feathers, 1878, p. 55; Hume, t. c., p. 164; Adam., t. c., p. 870; Hume, Lahore to
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