5. DiCjETrir. 31 



glossed with oily green ; tail-feathers greenish black ; lores dull 

 ashy grey ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck clear ashy grey, 

 descending down the sides of the fore neck and occupying the whole 

 of the breast ; throat white, the sides of it ashy grey, blacker at 

 the base of the malar line; a large triangular patch of scarlet 

 occupying the whole of the fore neck ; sides of breast and hanka 

 bright olive-yellow ; abdomen yellowish white ; thighs ashy grey, 

 white on their inner aspect ; under tail-coverts white, washed with 

 yellow and having dusky bases ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white, the edge of the wing blackish ; quills blackish below, ashy 

 white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 3-1 inches, 

 culmon 0-45, wing 2, tail 1, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in wanting the scarlet patch 

 on the fore neck, and in not having the patch of ashy grey on the 

 breast ; the throat and breast are yellowish white, with a few dusky 

 margins to the lateral feathers of the breast ; otherwise the under 

 surface of the body is exactly like that of the male, the sides of the 

 neck being ashy grey, descending on to the sides of the breast, and 

 the rest of the sides of the body being bright olive-yellow ; the 

 upper surface resembles that of the male, being entirely oily or bronzy 

 green, but there is a slight loral streak of white, and the base of 

 the lower mandible is pale, characters not seen in the adult male. 

 Total length 3-25 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-95, tail 0-95, 

 tarsus 0-5. (J/ws. Austr.) 

 Hah. Solomon Islands. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Solomon Islands. Mr. Cockerell [C.]. 



23. DicaBum erythrothorax. 



Dicseum erythrothorax, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. p. 672 pi 30 

 figs. 1, 2 (1826-28) ; id. Traite, p. 303 (1831) ; Miill. ^ Schl Verh. 

 JSatuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 162, note (1839-44) • Hartl 

 Bev. Zool 1846 p. 47 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. 

 1. p. 403(18o0); Retchenb. Handh. :Scans. p. 241, Taf dlvii 

 figs. 3784-85 (1853) ; Gray, P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 349; Wall. P. Z S 

 1863, pp. 19, 32 ; Fmsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 16:3 (1865) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l B. i. p 115, no. 1427 (1869); Meyer, SUz. K. Akad. 

 Wmi, Ixx. p. 121, note (1874) : Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. 



''"o-?V?o^/^^''^^' ^^'- P- ^^ (^^^^)' "^- ^'•«- P^^puasia etc.n. 

 p. 2/2 (1881). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-greenish, rather yellower 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 greenish grey, with a steel-green gloss ; greater coverts and (|uills 

 dusky blackish, edged with olive -yellowish and slightly glossed 

 with green, the primaries rather paler yellow on theii- margins ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish ; tail-feathers blackish,' 

 narrowly edged with olive ; head and hind neck greenish grej^, 

 with a steel-green gloss ; lores dusky ; sides of face, ear-coverts' 

 and cheeks greenish grey ; throat pure white, separated from the 

 cheeks by a malar line of dusky blackish, running along the edge of 



