5. DICiETrM. 27 



napo and hind neck black, glossed with purple : lores dusky ; 

 feathers over the eye black ; sides of face and cheeks dingy olive, 

 blacker on the ear-coverts ; a distinct dusky malar stripe ; throat 

 whitish, with a tinge of olive ; on the fore neck a large spot of scarlet ; 

 sides of breast ashy washed with olive ; breast and sides of body 

 dull olive, a little clearer on the lower flanks ; abdomen pale yel- 

 lowish olive ; under tail-coverts light rose-colour, with dusky olive 

 bases ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with a slight 

 wash of yellow ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 3-2 inches, culmen 0-3o, wing 2, tail 1, 

 tarsus 0"4:5. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being duller coloured and 

 in wantiug the scarlet patch on the fore neck ; the scarlet on the 

 head is more subdued, as well as on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts more olive ; throat white, with a slight tinge 

 of yeUow ; centre of body ])ale yellowish ; the flanks and sides of body 

 pale olivaceous ; under tail-coverts also yellowish, with dusky-olive 

 bases ; sides of breast ashy grey ; remainder of plumage as in the 

 male. Total length 3"2 inches, culmen U-35, wing 1-9, tail 0"9, 

 tarsus 0'45. 



Younq. Wants the scarlet breast-patch, as well as the scarlet 

 head and rump. General coloration dingy olive, a little more yel- 

 lowish olive on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like 

 the back ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts blue-black ; quills blue- 

 black, edged with olive, rather paler on the margins of the inner 

 secondaries and greater wing-coverts ; sides of face and under sur- 

 face of body duU olive, more ohvaceous yellow in the centre of the 

 breast and abdomen ; bill pale yellowish, dusky at tip and along the 

 culmen. 



Hah. South-eastern N~ew Guinea. 



o, 6. c? $ ad. ; e. Juv. sk. Port Moresby. O. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 



(Tj'pes of species.) 

 d. (S ad. sk. Port Moresby. K. Broadbent, Esq. [0.]. 



16. Dicseum pulchrius. (Plate I. fig. 2.) 



DicEEum rubrocoroiiatum (nee Sharpe, 1876), Sharpe, Journ. Linn. 



Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 4.3G. 

 Dicseum pidchrius, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 188.3, p. 579. 



Adult male. Similar to D. rid>ro-coronatum, but distinguished by 

 the absence of grey on the sides of the breast, the entire sides of the 

 body being yellowish olive, clearer ochraceous on the centre of the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, the latter having not the slightest 

 tinge of rose-colour ; the scarlet on the head more extended, and 

 reaching to the nape. Total length 3-2 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 

 2-05, tail 1, tarsus 0-4. 



Hab. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. New Guinea. 



a. i ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. (Type 



of species.) 



