36 iicjiiD^. 



white below; "bill and feet black. Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 

 0"45, wing 2-1, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-55. 



Yovinj. Differs from the adult in being slat)- grey above, the 

 ■wings and tail being blacker, with greyish margins to the feathers ; 

 under surface of body ashy whitish, washed with yellowish on the 

 abdomen and Avith greyish on the sides of the body. 



Hah. Islands of Guimaras and Ncgros, in the Philippine archi- 

 pelago. 



a. S ad. sk. Guimaras. Prof. J. B. Steere [C.l 



h,c. S 2 ad. sk. Negi-os. Prof. J. B. Steere [C.l. 



cl Juv. sk. Negros. Prof. J. B. Steere [C.J. 



32. Dicseum rubriventer. 



Le Manikor de la. Xouvelle Guinea, Dauhent. PI. Unl. V. pi. 707. tig. 2, 



Le Manikor, Bi'ff. Ilhit. Kat. Oia. iv. p. 431. 



Papuan Manakiu, Lath. Gen, Syn. iv. p. 532 (1783). 



Pipra papuensis *, Gin. Sijst. Kat. i. p. 1004 (1788). 



Muscicnpa papuensis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. Ixvii (1820); id. PL 



Col Tab!. Meth. p. 25 (1839). 

 Dicseum rubriventer, Less. Traite, p. 303 (1831) ; Sahad. Ann. Mm. 



Civic. Genov.ym. p. 511 (1876) ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 698, 763, 



829, 1878, pp. Ill, 950; Wardlaw Ruinsay, Orn, Works Tiveedd. 



p. 658 (1881J. 

 Dicneum schistaceum, Tweed. Ann. (§• Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 637 



(1877) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. Ill ; Wardlaiv Eainsay, Orn. Works 



Tiveedd. p. 658 (1881); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 680. 

 Dicseum papuense, Hartl. Pev. Zool. 1846, p. 47 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. ICO (1847) ; Pp. Consp. i. p. 403 (1850) ; PeicJitnb. Handb. 



Scansorice, p.240,Taf. dlvii. fig. 3782 (1863) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, 



p. ItlO; id. Cat. B. Neio Guinea, p. 65 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, 



p. 434 ; Plnsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 163 (1865); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 114, no. 1421 (1869). 

 Diceeum rubriventris, Pucher. Pev. Zool. 1846, p. 136, note. 

 Dicaeum retrocinctum 5 > Goidd, Ann. ij- May. Nat. Hist. (4) x. 



p. 114 (1872); id. B. Asia, part xxvii. (1876, lower figure); 



Wald. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 199 (1875). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy greenish slate-colour, 

 more ashy on the sides of the back and rump ; wing-covcrts like 

 the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged 

 with glossy steel-green ; tail-feathers blackish, margined with dull 

 Bteel-green ; head like the back, and glossed in the same manner ; 

 lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts blacker ; cheeks and throat 

 white, the latter becoming ashy grey on the lower part, like the 

 breast and flanks ; the abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 white ; a scarlet patch on the centre of the breast and abdomen ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with a black spot near the 

 edge of the wing ; quills blackish below, white along the margin of 



* Kame misleading. 



