5, DICTUM. 15 



narrowly with olive ; lores and eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts ashy 

 whitish : the sides of the face and cheeks pale brown washed with 

 fulvous, the ear-coverts with indistinct shaft-lines ; throat white, 

 separated from the cheeks by a moustachial Hne of dingy brown ; 

 centres of breast and abdomen dull whitish, the fore neck somewhat 

 obscured with ashy-brown edgings ; sides of body ashy brown 

 washed with olive ; vent and under tail-coverts buffy white ; under 

 ■wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills brown, ashy along the 

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

 ] -y, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-5. 



Tounff male. At first like the adult female, but more orange on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts. The scaidet plumage is assumed 

 by a direct moult. 



Hah. Java ; Madura (2Ieyer ; Mus. B. G. W. R.) ; ? Borneo. 



a. (S ad. sk. Java. Gould Collection. 



h,c. S 2 ad. sk. W. Java. A.R.WaUace,Esq.[C.l. 



d, e,f, (/. S ad. ; W. Java {E. C. Buxton). F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



h. 5 ad. sk. 



i, k. c? imm. sk. W. Java {E. C. Buxton). F. Nicholson, Esq. rp.]. 



I, m. S; n.<^;o.S Java {Rorsfield). India Museum. 



juv. sk. 



p. c? ad. sk. Java. Leiden Museum [P.]. 



2. Dicaeiiin cruentatum. 



The Little Black, White and Eed Lidian Creeper, Edwards, Nat. 



Hist. B. pi. 81 (174;}-^51). 

 Certhia cruentata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 187 (1766) : Lath. Ind. Orn. 



i. p. 296 (1790). 

 Le Grimpereau a dos rouge de la Chine, Sonn. Von. Ind. Orient, ii. 



p. 209, pi. 61. fig. 1 (1776-82). 

 Certhia cocciiiea, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 91 (1786). 

 Red-backed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 132 (1787). 

 Certhia erythronotus, Lath. Lid. Orn. p. 290 (1790). 

 Le Souimanga a dos y owsii, Axideb. et Vieill. Ois.Dor.u v 57 nl 



35 (1802). ^ ' ^ ■ 



Dicsum eiythronotum, Cttv. Ek/ne Anim. i. p. 410 (1817) ; McClell 



P. Z. S. 1839, p. 167; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 983 (1843), 



xiv. p. 558 (1845). ^ ^ K M 



Dicaeum cruentatum, Strickl. Ann. 8^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 38 



(1844) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 226 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 402 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 98 (1850) ; Tytler, 



An7i. Sr Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xiii. p. 373 (1854) ; Gould, B. Asia, 



part vi. (1854) ; Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 544 ; Siainh. Ibis, 1867, 



p. 405, 1868, p. 63; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 114, no. 1415 (1-869) ; 



Sioinh. Ibis, 1870, p. 239 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 349 ; Hume, Nests and 



Eggs Lid. B. p. 155 (1873) ; id. Str. F. 1874, p. 473, 1875, p. 87; 



Blyth Sf Wald. B. Burm. p. 142 (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, 



p. 87 ; Armstr. Str. F. 1876, p. 315 ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 349; 



David Sr Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 83 (1877); Hume ^- Davis. SYr. F. 



1878, p. 192; Anderson, Zool. Exped. Yunnan, p. 663 (1878); 



Hume, Sfr. F. 1879, pp. 56, 90 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 505 ; 



Mailer, Vdg. Inscl Salanga, p. 21 (1662); Oates, B. Brit. 



-Bwrm. i. p. 332 (1883). 



