K'S Dr. IIorsfield's Systematic Arrangement 



The male is conspicuously distinguished by the blueish-black 

 colour of the anterior parts, separating the breast from the ab- 

 domen by a defined line. The lower part of the tail appears 

 nearly white : the interior rectrices are terminated by a narrow 

 band, which on the exterior ones successively becomes wider. 



The female differs from the male in entirety wanting the dark 

 blackish-blue colour on the throat and breast. 



Spec. 3. Nectarinia eocimia mihi. 

 N; supra viridi-olivacea, capite supra caudaque saturissimo vi- 



ridi-smaragdino nitentibus, gula pectoreque puniceis, fascia 



jugularis purpurea. 

 Plichi-kemba?ig Javanis. 



Longitudo 4^ poll. 

 Rectrices duae intermedia? longiores : abdomen fusco-olivaceum ; 



remiges caudaque infra fuscse ; uropygium flavum ; abdominis 



latera axillaqxxe lactea. 



This is one of the most beautiful of the birds of Java. The 

 colouring of the female is almost uniformly dark olive-green, 



Fam. X. MERoriD^E Leach. 

 Syndactyles Cuvier. 

 Tenuikostiies Dumcril. 



Gen. 37. Dicjeum Cuvier. 



Spec. 1 . Dicceum cruentatum. 

 Certhia cruentata, Linn. Syst. i. p. 187. 

 Black, white and red Indian Creeper, Edw. t. 81. 

 Vieillot Ois. ii. t. 36. 

 Sopa Javanis. 



This bird is described by Linnaeus and by Latham as a spe- 

 cies of Certhia. M. Cuvier, agreeably to the method adopted in 

 the Regne Animal, has also arranged it as a sub-genus of the great 



genus 



