5. DiciEtrir. 19 



the mantle and upper back somewhat mottled, the feathers purplit,h, 

 tipped with scarlet ; rump aud upper tail- coverts rather brighter 

 scarlet, with purplish bases ; scapulars and wing-coverts deep 

 puq)le ; quills black, externally washed with deep purple ; tail- 

 feathers purplish black ; base of forehead, lores, sides of face, 

 cheeks, and sides of neck purplish black, connected with the pec- 

 toral band ; chin whitish ; throat aud fore neck scarlet, the sides of 

 the throat purplish black : the scarlet throat surrounded by a 

 purplish-black band, descending along the middle of the abdomen, 

 forming a broad mesial band ; remainder of breast and under sur- 

 face generally white, including the under tail- coverts, which are 

 slightly tinged with yellow ; thighs blackish ; under wing-coverts 

 and asillaries white, the edge of the wing black ; quills blackish 

 below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length So 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1-95, tail 1, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Diflferent from the male, and wanting the scarlet 

 throat and black pectoral band ; upper surface dingy brown, scarlet 

 on the mantle, the feathers being tipped with this colour ; head 

 brighter scarlet, the forehead dusky ; lower back ashy olive ; upper 

 tail-coverts bright scarlet; scapulars ashy olive; wing- coverts and 

 quills black, glossed with puqilish ; the inner secondaries edged 

 with olive ; tail-feathers purplish black : cheeks, sides of face, and 

 sides of neck dull ashy brown ; throat and under surface of body 

 dull white, purer on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; the chest 

 and upper breast washed with ashy, mottled with dusky bases to 

 the feathers, more distinct on the fore neck ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white ; quills dusky blackish below, white along the 

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

 I'So, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-5. 

 Mab. Plores, 



a,h. cJ ? ad. sk. Floras. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Tvpes of species.) 

 c, d. 2 ad. sk. Flores. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



5. DicsBum Mrundinaceum. 



Motacilla hirundiuacea, iS//aw S,- Nudder, Xat. Misc. iv pi 114 



(1792). 

 Swallow Warbler, Lath. Gen. St/n. Suppl. ii. p. 250 CI SOI). 

 Sylvia hiruudioacea, Lath. Lid. Orn. Sujjpl. p. Iv (1801). 

 Pipra desmaresti, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 94, pi. 41 (1814) ; Shaw, 



Gen. Zool. x. p. 18 (1817). 

 DiccBum atrogaster, Less. Trade, p. 303 (1831). 

 Dica?um pardalotus, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1833, pi. 14 (e.r Cuvier, 



MSS.). _ r V , 



Dicseum hirimdinaceum, Graj/, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; Gould, B. 



Amtr. fol. ii. pi. 34 ( 1848) ; Reichenb. Vog. NetihoU. p. 279 (1850) ; 



Goidd, Llandh. B. Austr. i. p. 581 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 115, no. 14.32 (18G9) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. ^'. S. W. ii. 



p. 191 (1878) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 125 ; id. Report Birds 



'Challenger ' Rvped. p. 89 (1881) : Shat-pe, Rep. Zool. Coll. H.M.S. 



' Alert; p. 21 (1884). 



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