32 Dic,f:iD^. 



the rami of the jaws ; lower throat and breast slaty grey, with a 

 large patch of orange-vermilion in the centre of the fore neck and 

 chest ; sides of body and flanks olive-yellowish ; centre of abdomen 

 whitish, washed with yellow : under tail-coverts white, with dusky 

 bases, and washed with olive-yellow ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts pure white ; edge of wing mottled with dusky bases to the 

 feathers ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-95, tail 0-95, 

 tarsus 0-55. (Mus. Lugd.) 



Hah. Island of Bourou, Moluccas. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. Bourou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



24. DicaBum layardorum. 



Dicfeum ervthrothorax, Ramsay, Proc, Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. 



pp. 369, 371 (187G). 



Dicffium ?, Layarcl, Ibis, 1880, p. 308, 



DicaBiim layardorum, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 67 



(1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 272 (1881). 



Adult male. General colour above dark ashy brown, with a faint 

 tinge of olive on the upper parts ; rump scarlet ; upper tail-coverts 

 ashy olive with a tinge of scarlet ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 greater coverts and quills dusky brown with a steel-green gloss ; 

 tail-feathers black ; head like the back, with a slight olive tinge ; 

 lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts ashy brown ; checks as well aa 

 fore neck and breast ashy grey, with a dusky blackish streak in 

 the centre of the breast ; throat white ; on the centre of the fore 

 neck a spot of scarlet ; centre of abdomen and under tail- coverts 

 white, washed with olive-yellow ; sides of body and flanks olive- 

 yellow ; thighs ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; 

 quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 3'3 inches, culmen 035, wing 2-15, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Distinguished from the male by the absence of the 

 grey breast and scarlet spot on the fore neck ; upper surface ashy 

 brown, with a strong olive tinge ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 scarlet, the latter deeper in colour ; wings and tail as in the male ; 

 lores dusky, with a narroAv whitish streak above them ; sides of 

 face, cheeks, and ear-coverts ashy brown, greyer on the sides of the 

 neck and sides of the upper breast; throat, breast, and centre of 

 body white, washed with yellow on the under tail-coverts ; sides of 

 body and flanks olive-yellow. Total length 3-1 inches, culmen 0-35, 

 wing 1'95, tail 0-9, tarsus 0-5. 



Young male. Like the old female, but having very little scarlet 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; the sides of breast rather more 

 grey than in the adiilt hen bird. 



Hab. New Britain. 



a. c? ad. ; b, c, 2 ad sk. New Britain. Mr, Kleinschmidt [C.]. 



d. (S juv. sk. New Britain. Mr. Kleinschmidt [C.]. 



