5. DICiEUM. 23 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 olive-brown, greyer on the head ; wing-coverts black, edged with 

 pale brown, slightl}' ochracoous on the greater coverts ; bastard-wing 

 and primarj'-coverts blue-black ; quills black, narrowly edged with 

 olive-brown, more distinctly olive on the secondaries ; tail-feathers 

 blue-black, edged with olive, the outer feathers tipped with dull 

 white on the outer web ; lores dull white ; ear-coverts ashy olive ; 

 cheeks and throat dull white, becoming tinged with pale ochre on 

 the breast; abdomen and thighs pale ochreous ; under tail-coverts 

 very pale scarlet ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, the 

 former tinged with ochreous ; quills dusky below, whitish along 

 the edge of the inner web ; " bill, legs, and feet black ; iris black " 

 {H. 0. Forbes). Total length 3"5 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2-1, 

 tail 1-15, tarsus 0-55. 



Hob. Tenimber Islands. 



a. cS ad. sk. Loetoer, Timor Laut British Association [P.], 



{H. O. Forbes). (Type of species.) 



6, c. c? $ ad. sk. Moloe Island, Sept. 1st. II. 0. Forbes, Esq. [C]. 



9. Dicaeum celebicum. 



Dicaeum celebicum, Miill. ^ Schl. Verh. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en 

 Volkenk. p. 182 (18;:)2-44) ; Grai/, Gen. li. i. p. 100 (1847) : Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 403 (18-jO); Reichenb. Handb. Saot'forice, p. 240 

 (185.3); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 115, no. 1422 (l.SGi)); Walden, 

 Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 72 (1872) ; Briigg. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 

 V. p. 74 (1878). 



Dicfeum leclancheri, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 94, 1846, p. 42 ; HarU. 

 Rev. Zool. 1846, pp. 4, 47, 111. 



Adult male. General colour above dark purple, the wing-coverts 

 like the back ; bastard-wiug, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 externally purple, the inuer secondaries entirely of the latter colour; 

 tail-feathers purplish black ; head like the back ; lores, sides of face, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck black glossed with purple, as 

 also the malar line; chin white; throat and chest scarlet ; remainder 

 of under surface whitish washed with pale yellow, with a broad 

 streak of purplish blue down the centre of the breast; sides of 

 breast xiurpUsh blue, dingy olive on the lower flanks ; thighs 

 blackish ; under tail-coverts white, washed with olive-yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the wing black ; 

 quills blackish below, ashy whitish along the edge of the inuer web. 

 Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-8, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-5. 



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

 throat and purple breast-patch. General colour al'cve ashy purple, 

 washed with olive, especially on the lower back and rump ; upper 

 tail-coverts deeper purple ; wing-coverts dull purple ; quills blackish, 

 externally washed with purple ; tail-feathers purplish black ; lores 

 whitish ; sides of face and ear-coverts dull ashy washed with purple; 

 throat and breast ashy whitish ; remainder of under surface pale 

 yellowish, including the under tail-coverts ; flanks and sides of body 



