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A specimen from Doi San Ho, June 2, is near completion of the 

 postnatal molt and another from Chiang Mai, November 25, is in 

 postnuptial molt. 



An adult female had the irides dark brown; the bill plumbeous- 

 blue, with the culmen blackish ; the feet and toes dark plumbeous ; the 

 claws horny black. 



The plain-colored flowerpecker has the entire upperparts dull olive- 

 green, more yellowish on the rump and upper tail coverts, each feather 

 of the forehead and crown with a minute blackish central spot; the 

 remiges black, outwardly narrowly edged with yellowish olive-green ; 

 the rectrices black, very narrowly edged with olivaceous-ashy; the 

 lores olivaceous-white or olivaceous-ashy; the entire underparts 

 olivaceous-ashy, suffused (most strongly on the abdomen) with cream; 

 the under wing coverts and axillaries pure white. 



DICAEUM HIRUNDINACEUM IGNIPECTUS (Blyth) 



Himalayan Fire-breasted Flowerpecker 



M[yzanthe] ignipectus "Hodgson" Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 12, 

 1843, pp. 983-984 (Nepal and Bhutan). 



Dicaeum ignipectus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, 

 p. 36 (Khun Tan). 



Dicaeum ignipectus [partim], Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 466 (Khun Tan). 



Dicaeum ignipectus ignipectus, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, 1929, p. 565 (Doi Suthep). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 Suppl. 1931, p. 156 (Doi Suthep). 



Dicaeum ignipectum ignipectum, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1934, p. 243 (Doi Suthep). 



Dicaeum sanguinolentum ignipectus, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1936, p. 125 (Doi Suthep). 



Dicaeum ignipectum [partim], Rhey, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 514 

 (Khun Tan, Doi Hua Mot, Mae Hong Son). 



The fire-breasted flowerpecker probably occurs on all the northern 

 peaks which reach elevations in excess of 4,000 feet but, in addition 

 to the localities listed above, it is recorded until now only from Phu 

 Kha. On Doi Suthep, where it is a permanent resident, I found it 

 very common from 4,600 to 5,500 feet, less common as low as 4,000 

 feet, and occasional in winter down to 3,200 feet. The unique female 

 taken by Smith at Mae Hong Son (January 5, 1933) is correctly 

 identified and, if actually from so low an altitude, must represent 

 a wanderer from one of the neighboring hills. 



This tiny bird, singly or in pairs, haunts chiefly the epiphyte-bur- 

 dened and rather stunted trees growing along the higher ridges of 

 the mountains but appears also in the pinelands and in the open hill- 

 forest of chestnut and oak; in our provinces, it is apparently the 



