18 DIC^ID^. 



Subsp. /3. Dicaeum pryeri. 



Dicseum pryeri, Shcirpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 795 ; id. in GouliVs B. Asia, 

 part xxxiv. (1883). 



Adult male (type of species). Similar to D. crventatum and D. 

 nigrimentum, but having the entire throat and jugulum black, the 

 fore neck creamy buft', obscured by blackish edges to the feathers. 

 Total length 2-t> inches, culmeu 0*4, wing 1-85, tail 1, tarsus 0-45. 



Ohs. This is a race of B. cruentatum, in which the throat is 

 entirely black, this colour extending on to the sides of the breast 

 and leaving only the centre of the fore neck creamy buff. It is, 

 however, so closelj^ approached by some of the specimens of D. 

 nigrimentum, that it can only be regarded as an extreme form, 

 apparently peculiar to North-eastern Borneo. 



Hah. Sandakan, jS"'.E. Borneo. 



a. (S ad. sk. Sandakan. W. R. Pryer, Esq. [C.]. (Type 



of subspecies.) 



3. Dicaeum sumatranum. 



Dicffiiun sumatranum, Cah. J.f. O. 1878, p. 101. 



Adult male. General colour above bright scarlet, the mantle 

 slightly mottled with the blackish bases to the feathers ; head like 

 the back, as also the hind neck ; base of forehead black ; scapulars 

 and wing-coverts gloss}' purplish blue with a steel gloss ; greater 

 coverts and quills, as well as the primarj'-coverts, blackish, exter- 

 nally edged with purplish blue ; tail-feathers blue-black ; lores, 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, checks, and sides of neck sooty blackish ; 

 throat, breast, and sides of body lighter ashy, the flanks slightly 

 washed with olive ; centre of fore neck, and of breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts, ochraceous birff; thighs ashy; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, the latter slightly washed with ochreous ; 

 quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 3'3 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-85, tail 0"85, 

 tarsus 0-45. 



Another male, apparently rather younger than the one described, 

 has the whole of the forehead and eyebrow black. The hind neck 

 is also dusky blackish, cutting off the scarlet crown from the 

 mantle. 



Hah. Sumatra. 



a, b. (5 ad. sk. Sumatra (Mus. Ltujd.). Gould Collection, 



c. (S jun. sk. West coast of Sumatra. India Museum. 



4. Dicseum igniferum. 



Dicseum igniferum, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 494 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, 



p. 1G.3 (1865). 

 Bicffiiun ignifer, Gray, Haiid-l. B. i. p. 114, no. 1419 (1869). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dark scarlet, 



