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and enclosing a large scarlet patch on the throat and fore neck ; 

 chin and sides of upper throat white ; remainder of under surface of 

 body creamy white, with a broad line of black down the centre of 

 the abdomen, continuous with the sides of the breast-band ; thighs 

 and under tail-coverts creamy white ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts white, with the edge of the wing black ; quills black, white 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length '6-6 inches, culmen 

 0-4, wing 2-15, tail 1-2.5, tarsus 0-55. (Mas. Lugd.) 



Adult female. Much duller in colour than the male, dusky brown 

 glossed with purplish ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills blackish, 

 obsoletoly margined with dull olive-brown ; lower rump and upper 

 tail-coverts scarlet ; tail-feathers blue-black ; lores ashy, surmounted 

 by a narrow whitish line ; sides of face and cheeks ashy brown, 

 extending down on to the sides of the breast, where it is mixed with 

 black ; fore part of jheeks whitish ; entire under surface of body 

 white, with a slight tiuge of olive on the Hanks ; in the centre of the 

 breast a dusky patch ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, 

 dusky along the edge of the wing ; quills dusky below, white along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 3 inches, culmen 0'35, 

 wing 2-05, tail 1'05, tarsus 0-5. (Mus. Lugd.) 



The male from Lorabock has a longer and more slender bill than 

 the examples from Timor. 



Hah. Timor ; Lombock. 



t7, b. <S ad. ; c. $ ad. sk. E. Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0. 



d. $ ad. sk. Timor DelU. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C 



e. (S ad. sk. Lombock. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



14. Dicaeum salvadorii. 

 Dicaeum salvadorii, Meyer, Vog. etc. Ostind. Arch. p. 38 (1884). 



Adidt male. Above shining blue-black ; the upper tail-coverts, 

 throat, and breast bright brick-red ; below yellowish, with a broad 

 median streak of blue-black on the belly ; under wing-coverts white. 

 Total length 3-4 inches, bill 0-4, wing 2-3, tail 1-3, tarsus 0-6. 



Hab. Island of Eabbar, Moluccas. 



15. Dicaeum rubro-coronatum. (Plate I. fig. 1.) 



Dicaeum rubrocoronatum, Sharpe, Nature, 1876, p. .339 : Salcad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 31 (1870) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. 

 xiii p. 496 (1877) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 390 

 (1876), iii. p. 110' (1878), p. 276 (1879), iv. p. 98 (1879) ; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 68 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. 

 ii. p. 276 (1881). 



Adidt male. General colour above deep purplish blue, the scapu- 

 lars and wing-coverts like the back ; quills blue-black, with slight 

 remains of olive margins to the feathers, rather reddish on the inner 

 secondaries and greater coverts ; rump and upper tail-coverts bright 

 scarlet ; tail-feathers blue-black ; crown of head bright scarlet ; 



