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Show 1887.J MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM PERAK. 435 ARTAMIDES LARUTENSIS, sp. n. "No. 30. J. Irides brown. The female has a lighter head than the male. Fly usually in pairs or small parties." A large representative of A. larvatus, from which it differs in its purer grey coloration, blacker chin and cheeks, and by the colour of the under tail-coverts, which are white washed with ashy grey. The under wing-coverts are also for the most part white, but in both these cases the plumage may not be fully mature. Adult male. General colour above uniform dark pearly grey, lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dark cindery grey, edged with pearly grey; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, fringed with ashy grey, margined with broader and paler grey on the secondaries, the innermost narrowly fringed with whitish at the ends; upper tail-coverts like tbe back ; centre tail-feathers ashy grey, blackish towards the ends, the remainder black tipped with an ashy-grey spot, increasing in extent towards the outermost, which is also pale ashy along the outer web; crown of head like the back; a line across the base of the forehead, lores, feathers round the eye, and fore part of cheeks black; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat blackish, with an ashy shade, shading off paler on the lower throat and fore neck; remainder of under-surface of body deep pearly grey, a little lighter than the back; thighs dark slaty grey; under tail-coverts white, grey near the vent, the rest of the coverts marked with ashy grey; under wing-coverts grey, or grey varied with white bars; axillaries grey; quills below dusky, ashy white along the inner edge. Total length 11 inches, culmen 1*05, wing 6'45, tail 4-4, tarsus 0*95. PERICROCOTUS IGNEUS, Blyth ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 78 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 57. "No. 53. c?. Irides brown. Not common. Only one specimen of this Minivet was obtained." CRYPTOLOPHA TRIVIRGATA (Strickl.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 396 ; Salvad. t. c. p. 204. "No. 44. 2 • Irides dark brown." Compared with specimens from West Java and Sumatra. RHIPIDURA ALBICOLLIS (V.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 317. "No. 31. 2' Irides brown. These Fantails are restless and active in their habits, flitting about with their tails spread out and hardly ever for a moment still. This species and the one found in the low country (R. javanica) are said to be mad by the Malays, from the absurd and restless way in which they are always hopping and turning about. The present species I always found in small flocks, and almost invariably with Quaker Thrushes (Alcippe), Racket-tailed Drongos, Rhinocichla mitrata, and other birds. It frequents dense jungle and has a sweet clear little song." The only difference between the specimen sent and others from |
