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25. Dicaetun eximium. 



Dicaeum eximium, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 102, pi xiv fio- 2- 

 Gould, B. Aeic &Mi«e«, part vii. (lS78j; ISalcad. Ann. Mu^. Civic 

 Genov. xvi. p. 08 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 280 (1881).* 



Adult male (type of species). General colour abore uniform dark 

 ohve-brown, with a slight tinge of reddish, much more distinct on 

 the head, which is decidedly dull reddish ; rump scarlet, the upper 

 tail-coverts darker and more of a dull crimson ; wing-coverts and 

 quills dark brown, with a slight gloss of bronzy greenish and 

 narrowly fringed with olive; tail-feathers dark "brown, with a 

 bronzy-green gloss ; lores dusky ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and 

 checks ashy brown washed with reddish, the ear-coverts reddish 

 like the crown ; malar line darker brown ; throat white ; on the 

 tore neck a transverse bar of scarlet, followed by a bar of paler 

 ashy brown, like the sides of the neck and sides of upper breast • 

 breast and abdomen white, with a broad longitudinal patch of ashy 

 brown down the centre of the breast ; flanks more reddish brown • 

 thighs and under tail-coverts white, the longer coverts with lon<^i- 

 tudmal dusky centres; under wing-coverts and axilkries piu-e 

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

 iotal length 3-2 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-85, tail 1-1, tarsus 0-5. 

 {Mils. R. G. Wardhnu Ramsay.) 

 Hah. Kew Ireland. 



26. Licaeum maforense. 



■^'°'^','«n P«ll^"ii^iianum, pt., Meijer, 8itz. K. Akad. TVien, Ixx. 



p. 120 (18/4). ' 



DicEeum maforense, Salvad. Ami. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii p 944 



(l87o;, xvi. p. 67 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papucisia etc. ii. p. 275 (1881). 



Adult male. General colour above olive, with a steel-blue gloss 

 on the back ; wing-coverts steel-blue ; quiUs blackish brown, nar- 

 rowly edged with olive ; upper tail-coverts duU reddish • tail- 

 featliers black; lores, sides of face, and cheeks dingy olive' with 

 a paler line above the lores ; crown of head dull scarlet, not' quite 

 reaching to the nape ; throat white, with a dusky malar line ; on 

 the fore neck and chest a patch of vermilion; sides of fore neck 

 and sides of upper breast ashy grey, enclosing the scarlet breast- 

 patch ; flanks and sides of body ashy olive ; abdomen yellowish 

 white, deeper on the under tail-coverts, with dull olive bases • 

 under wi.ig-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the win<^ 

 dusky ; quills dusky below, whitish along the edge of the inne? 

 web. Total length 3-2 inches, culmen 0-3.5, wmg 2, tail 1-05 

 tarsus Q-o. ' 



Hah Island of Mafoor or Mcfoor, in the Bay of Geelvink, Jf.W. 

 JNcw Guinea. 



6 ad. sk. Mafoor {Bernstein). Leiden 3Iuseum rP.l. 



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