5. Dic^iTii. 35 



Total length 35 inches, culmcn 0-45, -wing 2-3, tail 1-15, tarsus 

 0-55. (2Ius. H. B. Tristram.) 



Hah. San Cristoval, Solomon group (RicJiards). 



30. DicsBum retrocinctum. 



Dicreum retrociuctum, Gould, Ann. ^- Maq. Kat. Hist. (4) x. p. 114 

 (1872) ; Walden, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 200 (1876) ; Gould, B. Asia, 

 part xxvii. (187o) ; Scdvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. 'viii. p. 609 

 (187G) ; Wardlaio Ramsay, Orn. Works Tiveedd. p. 668 (1881). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above black with a 

 leadeu-blue gloss, the lower back and rump more ashy ; scapulars 

 and wing- coverts like the back ; greater coverts, bustard- wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills black, externally glossed with steel- 

 blue ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers black, edged 

 with leaden blue ; head like the back, from which it is separated by 

 a collar of scarlet ; lores, sides of face, cheeks, and ear-coverts, as 

 well as sides of neck, black glossed with leaden blue ; throat, fore 

 neck, and centre of chest dull black, with a slight leaden-blue gloss ; 

 on the upper throat a spot of scarlet; centre of breast also scarlet, 

 forming a longitudinal patch ; sides of fore neck and sides of breast 

 w^hite, skirting the black throat and scarlet breast till it reaches 

 the abdomen, which is white, as well as the thighs and under tail- 

 coverts ; flanks ashy grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure 

 white ; quills blackish below, white along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 3'5 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2-05, tail 1, 

 tarsus 0-5. 



Hab. Island of Luzon, Philippine Archipelago. 



a. cS ad. sk. Manila, Luzon. Gould Collection. (Type 



of species.) 

 h. (S ad. sk. Philippines (//. Cuming). Eyton Collection. 



31. Dicaeum hsBmatostictum. 



Dicpeum hfematostictum, Sharpe, Nature, Aug. 1876, p. 297 ; id. 

 Trans. Linn. Sos. 2nd ser. Zool. vol. i. p. 339 (1876); Tiveedd. 

 P. Z. S. 1878, p. 286; Wardlaiu Eamsay, Orn. Works Tweedd. 

 p. 658 (1881). 



Adult male. Above blue-black, lower part of the back more slate- 

 colour ; upper tail-coverts black; wing- coverts uniform with the 

 back, the greater series, as well as the quills and tail-featiiers, 

 blackish brown, externally margined with greenish ; sides of the 

 face black ; the cheeks and under surface of the body white, the 

 flanks washed with ashy ; a transverse band on the fore neck slaty 

 black ; breast and middle of abdomen bright crimson, the former 

 spotted on both sides with slaty black ; under tail-coverts and under 

 wing-coverts white; the inner edge of the quills margiued with 



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