30 DICEID^. 



Cat. Mamm. 8^ B. New Guhim, pp. 22, 55 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1861, p. 434 ; liosenb. Nat. Tijdschr.-Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 237 (1803) ; 

 id. J.f. O. 1864, p. 123; Finsch, Neu-Gtiinea, p. 163 (1865); 

 Mmjer, Sitz. K. Akad. Wien, Ixx. p. 120 (1874) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 67 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 273 

 (1881). 

 Dicffium eiythrothorax, pt., Gray, Hatid-l. B. i. p. 115, no. 1427 ; 

 liosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 553 (1879). 



Adult male (Waigiou ; Bernstein). General colour above olive- 

 green, a little more olive-yellow on the head, which is olive hke 

 the back ; rump and upper tail-coverts also a little more olive- 

 yellow, particularly the latter ; wing-covef ts and quills dusky, with 

 a steel-green gloss and narrowly edged with olive ; tail-feathers 

 blue-black: lores, sides of face, car- coverts, and cheeks olive like 

 the crown, the hinder cheeks washed with ashy grey like the sides 

 of the neck ; throat whitish, with a tinge of olive on the chin ; fore 

 neck and chest with a large patch of orange-scarlet ; sides of breast 

 ashy, more olive on the flanks ; centre of abdomen, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts pale yellow, the latter with dusky bases ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts white, the edge of the wing dusky washed 

 with olivo ; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 2-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-05, tail 1-05, 

 tarsus 0'5. 



Hab. New Guinea, Salwati, Mysol, Waigiou, and Batanta. 



a. c? ad. sk. Salwati. A. E,. Wallace, Esq. [0.1. 



b. c? ad. sk. Waigiou ( ^"a^/ace). A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



c. (S juv. sk. Waigiou. Gould Collection. 



d. S ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



e. 2 juv. sk. Kalwal (Bernstein'). Leiden Museum [P.]. 



22. Dicseum seneum. 



DiciSe bronze, Eombr. et Jacq. Voy. Pule Sud, Atlas, pi. 22. fig. 4 



(1845). 

 Dicajum sp., Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847). 

 Dicajum ajneum, Jacq. et Puch. Voy. Pole Sud, texte, Zool. ii. p. 97 



(1863) ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1854, pp. 165, 168 ; Gray, Cat. B. Trap. 



Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 10 (1859); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 118; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 115, no. 1434 (1869) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1879, 



p. 439 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 68 (1880) ; id. Orn, 



Papuasia etc. ii. p. 280 (1881) ; id. op. cit. iii. p. 540 (1882) ; 



Pamsay,Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vii. p. 28 (1882); Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1883, p. 579 ; Gould, B. New Guinea, part xvii. (1884). 

 Microchelidon senea, Reichenb. Handb. Scansoriee, p. 244. Taf. dlviii. 



fig. 3797 (c. 18.53). 

 DicEeum erythrothorax {non Less.), Ramsay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S. W. 



iv. p. 77 (1879) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1880, p. 129. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy oil-green with a bronzy 

 gloss ; head like the back ; sides of rump with a slight wash of 

 olive-yellow ; upper tail-coverts oily green ; lesser and median 

 wing-coverts glossy oil-green like the back ; the greater coverts, 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, externally 



