14 DICiEIDJ3. 



d. Size smaller; wing not exceediug 1"9 

 inch ; bill pale at base of lower man- 

 dible. 

 h'. Throat pale olive yellowish like the , ■„^,.„„i 45^ 



rest of the under surface . . . ... ,nmuUum, -p. 47 . 



t. Throat ashy, slightly washed with ' ' ^ 

 olive. 

 n". Abdomen olive-yellow, contrast- 

 ing with throat virescens, p. 46. 



0". Abdomen ashy like the throat, with 



a slight wash of olive everetti, p. 47. 



II. Bill yellowish in the skin, red in life ; upper 



surface plaiu-coloui-ed erythrorhynchum, p. 48. 



1. DicsBum flammeum. 



Motacilla flammea, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, fasc. iv. pi. 98 (1789). 



Flame-coloured Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 251 (1801). 



Sylvia flammea, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. Ivi (1801). 



Le Figuier rouge, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. 136 (1802). 



Dicfeum rubescens, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 408 (1817). 



Dicajum cruentatum (wee L.), Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 168 



(1820). 

 Nectarinia rubrocana, Temm. PL Col. iv. pi. 108. figs. 2, 3 (1824). 

 Dicaeum rubricosum, Cuv. Beyne Aniin. i. p. 433 (1829). 

 DicEenm rubrocanum, Blyth, J. A. 8. Beng. xy. p. 44 (1845) ; Bp, 



Consp. i. p. 403 (1850) ; Reiclienb. Handh. Scans, p. 260, Taf . dlvi. 



figs. 3778-79 (1853) ; Horsf. %■ Moore, Cat. B. E.L. Co. Mm. ii. 



p. 748 (1856); Bernst. J. f. 0. 1859, p. 278; Vorderm. Nat. 



Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xlii. p. 214 (1882). 

 DiciBum rubescens, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847); Reichenb. Ilandb. 



Scansorice, p. 240, Taf. dlvi. figs. 3776-77 (1853). 

 Dicteum flammeum, Sundev. Krit. Framst. Sparrm. p. 14 (1857) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 115, no. 1423 (1869) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 



p. 167 (1874); Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 302; Nichols. Ibis, 1879, 



p. 16(), 1881, p. 152 ; Blasius, iii. JB. Ver. Naturiu. Braunschio. 



pp. 79-81 (1883). 



Adult male. General colour above bright orange-scarlet from the 

 base of the bill to the up^ier tail-coverts ; the feathers with a con- 

 cealed subterminal band of blue-black, only visible on the dis- 

 arrangement of the plumage ; scapulars and wing-coverts glossy 

 blue-black ; greater coverts, primary-coverts, bastard-wing, and 

 quills black, with a slight gloss of blue-black ; tail-feathers deep 

 blue-black ; sides of face, sides of neck, throat, and fore neck orange- 

 scarlet ; sides of upper breast and remainder of under surface of 

 body pale ashy, with a slight wash of olive ; lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, 

 dusky along the edge of the wing ; quills dusky brown, ashy along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 3"4 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2-2, tail 1*1, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, with a reddish tinge on the head and mantle, more olive on 

 the lower back, scapulars, and back ; the rump and ujjper tail- 

 ooverts scarlet ; tail-feathers blue-black ; quiUs dusky brown, edged 



