5. DICTUM. 



17 



p. ? juv. sk. 



g. cJ <id. sk. 



t: (S ad. sk. 

 s. S ad. sk. 

 t. (S ad. sk. 

 M, V. $ ad. sk. 

 w. 5 ad. sk. 

 .r, y. S ad. ; 



s,a'. 2 juv. sk. 

 b'. (S ad. sk. 

 e'. 2 ad. sk. 

 d\ 2 ad. sk. 

 c') /• d ad. sk. 



12 miles north of Ran- 

 goon, Oct. 



Salween River, Tenas- 

 serim, July 26. 



Tenasserim. 



Tavoy (£n'f/ys). 



Malacca (Griffith). 



Malacca. 



Malacca (Cantor). 



Penang (Cantor). 



Sumatra. 



Java. 



Java (Horsjield), 



Java. 



E. W. Dates, Esq. [0.]. 



Capt. C. T. Bingham [P.]. 



J. C. D. Packman, Esq. [P.]. 



Gould Collection. 



India Museum. 



A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



India Museum. 



India Museum. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

 India Museum. 

 Purchased. 



Subsp. a, Dicseum uigrimentum. 



DicaBum coccineum (nonScop.), Mottley ^ Dilho. Nat. Hist. Labuan, 



p. 19 (1855). 

 Dicseum cruentatum (non L.), Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 219. 

 Dicfeum nigrimentum, Salvad. Ucc. Boi-n. p. 165 (1874) : Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 343. 



Adult male. Similar to D. coccineiim, but having more black on 

 the chin, -which, instead of being black only along the edge of the 

 rami of the lower jaw, has the black colour extending over the 

 chin, and in some examples on to the upper throat ; " iris brown " 

 (Doria). Total length 3-1 inches, culmcn 0'4, wing 1-85, tail 1, 

 tarsus 0"O. 



Adult female. Very similar to the female of D. cocc'meum. Total 

 length 3-2 inches, culmeu 0-4, wing 1-95, tail 1, tarsus 0'5. 



Ohs. A comparison of Bornean birds with Malayan and Burmese 

 D. cruentatum shows that the former have more or less black on the 

 throat and chin ; but even in Bornean examples the extent of this 

 black is not the same in all individuals, while the form with 

 black chin is also not strictly confined to Borneo, as the Museum 

 possesses one from Malacca. As, therefore, the characters of B. 

 nigrimentum are not absolutely constant, and it has not even a 

 definite geographical range apart from D. cruentatum, I have thought 

 it best to consider it merely a race of the last-named bird. 



Hab. Malacca and Borneo. 



A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Governor Ussher [C.]. 



Harry Veitch, Esq. [P.]. 

 Henry Everett, Esq. [C.]. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



