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27. DicsBum mysoriense. 



Dicceiim geelvinkianum, pt., Meyer, Sitz. K. Al;ad. Wien, Ixx. 



p. 120 (1874). 

 Dicfeum mysoriense, Saload. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. tu. p. 945 



(1875), xvi. p. 67 (1880) ; id. Orn. Fapuasia etc. ii. p. 275 (1881). 



Adult male. Similar to D. maforense, but with a much smaller 

 spot of scarlet on the fore neck, and decidedly greyer on the sides of 

 the hody. Total length 3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2, tail 0-85, 

 tarsus 0'5. 



BaJ). Island of Mysore or Misori, in the Bay of Geclvink, N-W. 

 New Guinea. 

 a. Ad. sk. Misori (Meyer). Gould Collection. 



28. DicsBum geelvinkianum. 



Dicfeum geelviDkinnum, Meyer, Sitz. K. Akad. Wien, Ixx. p. 120 



(1874) ; Gould, B. Nnv Guinea, part ix. (1879). 

 Dicreum jobiense, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. v\\. p. 945 (1876), 



xvi. p. 68 (1880); id. Orn. Pajmasia etc. p. 275 (1881). 



Similar to D. mysoriense, but distinguished by the head and upper 

 tail-coverts being bright red of the same tint ; a moderately large 

 red spot on the breast ; upper surface greenish. Measurements as 

 in IJ. mysoriense. (SaJvadori.) 



i/a6. Island of Jobi, in the Bay of Gcelvink, N.W. New Guinea. 



29. DicsBum tristrami. 



Dicfeum tristrami, Sharpc, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 579; id. in Goidd's B. 

 Neio Guinea, part xviii. (1884). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above chocolate-brown, 

 the manile slightly streaked with a few hoary whitish margins to 

 the feathers ; wing-coverts darker chocolate-brown than the back ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, the inner 

 B3C0ndaries chocolate-brown like the back ; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 blackish brown, contrasting strongly with tlie back ; head brown, 

 but mottled with blackish-brown centres to the feathers, the plumes 

 of the forehead and vertex margined with hoary whitish ; a line 

 of feathers above the eye and ear-coverts hoary white, the latter 

 slightly mottled with brown bases; lores, eyelid, fore part of cheeks, 

 and base of chin blackish ; hinder cheeks, throat, and fore neck 

 hoary white, with brown bases to the feathers ; sides of neck like 

 the back ; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure 

 white, the sides of the body ashy ; sides of upper breast brown, with 

 hoary whitish edges to the feathers ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts white ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of 

 the inner web ; bill black ; " feet black ; iris grey " {Richards). 



