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12. DicsBum sanguinolentum. 



Dicfeum sanguinolentum, Temm. PL Col. iv. pi. 478. fig. 2 (1^29) ; 

 Grm/, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 403 (18.50) ; 

 Eekhenb. Handb. Scans, p. 240, pi. dlvii. fig. 3783 (1853) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 114, no. 1418 (1«G9) ; Nichols. Ibis, 1881, p. 152; 

 Meyer, Vog. etc. Ostind. Arch. p. 39 (1884). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above glossy purplish 

 blue ; the -wing-coverts like the back ; primary-coverts, bastard- 

 wing, and quills blackish, externally washed with purplish blue ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, with a purple gloss ; lores, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts and cheeks, sides of throat, sides of neck, and sides of upper 

 breast black ; throat, fore neck, and upper breast crimson, paler 

 towards the throat ; remainder of under surface of body sand)* buff, 

 with a black streak down the centre of the lower breast and upper 

 abdomen ; thighs dusky blackish ; flanks dingy blackish, with a slight 

 wash of olive ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, blackish 

 along the edge of the wing ; quills dusky below, ashy brown along 

 the edge of the inner web ; " iris dark blue " {H. 0. Forbes). Total 

 length 3-3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1*95, tail 1, tarsus O'o. {Mas. 

 Lur/d.) 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dusky, with a gloss of steel-blue ; the upper tail-coverts scarlet ; 

 tail blue-black ; wing-coverts like the back, and glossed in the same 

 manner : quills blackish, with a light steel-blue gloss externally ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of face dusky washed with olive, with narrow 

 pale shaft-lines and an indistinct eyebrow of pale olive ; under sur- 

 face of body sandy buff, slightly mottled on the fore neck and breast 

 with obsolete ashy margins ; axillaries and under wing-coverts dull 

 white. Total lejigth 3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1"8, tail 1, 

 tarsus 0"5. 



Hah. Java. 



a,b. S2 ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Tapos,.lava {von Hasself). Gould Collection. 



d. (S ad. sk. Java (Diard). Leiden Museum [P.]. 



13. DicaBum mackloti. 



Dicseum mackloti, Midi. ^- Schl. Verk. Natuurl. Geseh. Land- en 

 Volkenk. p. 162 (1839-44) ; Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 433 (1850) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486 ; Finsch, Xeii- 

 Guinea, p. 163 (1865) ; Gray, ILmd-l. B. i. p. 115, no. 1433 (1869). 



Microchelidon macklotii, Beichenb. Handb. Scans, p. 244 (1853). 



Adidt male (t}-pe of species). General colour above dark purplish 

 blue, the wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blackish, externally purplish blue like the back ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts bright scarlet, with purplish-blue bases to the 

 feathers ; tail-feathers purplish black ; lores, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, and cheeks dark purplish blue like the face, running down 

 the sides of the throat, and forming a broad band across the breast. 



