38 DIC^IDiE. 



and checks sooty black ; throat and under surface of 'bodj' white, 

 ■washed with ashy on the fore neck, breast, and flanks ; under tail- 

 coverts white, -with an olive-yellow tinge ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, with a slight tinge of yeUow ; edge of wing sooty 

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

 Total length 3-2 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 1-9, tail 1, tarsus 0-5. 

 Hah. Island of Mindanao, in the Philippine archipelago. 



a. (S ad. sk. Pasanauca, Prov. of Zana- Voy. of H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 

 •boanga, Mindanao. (Type of species.) 



35. DicaBum trigonostigina. 



Le Grimpereau siffleur de la Chine, So)in. Voy. Ind. Orient, p. 210, 



pi. 61. tig. 2 (177U-S2). 

 Certhia trrgonostiguia, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 91 



(1786). 

 Orange-breasted Creeper, Lath. Gen. Sijn. Suppl. p. 132 (1787). 

 Certhia cantillaus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 29:) (1790). 

 Diciieum cantihans, Vuv. E'egne An. i. p. 410 (1817) ; VieUl. N. Bid. 



d'Hist. Nat. Lx. p. 409 (1817) ; Temm. PL Col. iv. pi. 478. fig. 3 



(1829). 

 Dicpeum croceoventre, Vigors, Mem. Eaffl. p. 673 (1830) ; Mottley ^ 



Dilhv. N. n. Lahuan, p. 17 (1855). 

 Dicfeum trigonostigma, Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; Blyth, Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 226 (1849) ; Bj}. Consp. i. p. 403 (1850) ; Cab. 



Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 98 (1850) ; Reichenb. Handb. Scansoria, 



p. 241, Taf dlvii. figs. 3788-89 (1853) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. 



B. E.L Co. Mm. ii. p. 748 (1854); Sclater, P.'Z. S. 1863, p. 220; 



IVald. P.Z.S. 18G6, p. 545; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 422 ; Graij, 



Iland-l. B. i. p. 114, no. 1416 (1869); Godwin- Aiist. J. A. S. 



Beng. xxxix. p. 303 (1870); Wuld. Ibis, 1872, p. 380; Hume, 



fig , 



Zoo/, i. p. 340 (1876); Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. .302; Hume S,- Davison, 

 Str. F. 1878, p. 194 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 261 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 343 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 90 ; Bingham, Str. F. 1880, p. 195 ; 

 Wardlaio Eamsag, Orn. Works Tweedd. p. 658 (1881) ; Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, p. 796; Midler, Vng. Insel Salanga, p. 22 (1882) ; 

 Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 336 (1883). 



Adult male. Above particoloured ; head and hind neck glossy 

 leaden blue ; back bright yellow, deeper and inclining to rich orange 

 on the mantle and upper back ; scapulars and wing-coverts glossy 

 leaden blue ; bastard-wing, primarj'-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 with narrow slaty-blue edges ; upper tail-coverts slaty blue ; tail- 

 feathers black, with a narrow edging of slaty blue ; lores, sides of 

 face, ear-coverts, and sides of neck leaden blue, more slaty grey on 

 the cheeks ; throat and fore neck pale slaty grey ; remainder of 

 under surface of body rich orange, inclining to bright yellow on the 

 lower abdomen and under tail-coverts ; thighs ashy whitish ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pure white, mottled with slaty grey on 

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



