5. :Dic^rM. 41 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above slaty blue, 

 deeper on the bead, mantle, and scapulars ; in the centre of the back 

 a spot of orange-scarlet ; on the rump a slight yellow tinge ; wing- 

 coverts like the back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, 

 narrowly edged with slaty blue ; quills blackish, externally margined 

 with greyish blue, the inner secondaries like the back ; upper tail- 

 coverts slaty blue like the back ; tail-feathers blackish, edged towards 

 the base with slaty blue ; lores blackish ; sides of face, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, and sides of neck slaty blue like the back ; throat yellow, 

 the sides of the throat and the lower throat bluish grey, washed with 

 yellow in the centre of the throat ; remainder of under surface deep 

 rich orange, almost scarlet on the breast, briglit yellow on the Hanks, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, 

 washed with yellow ; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the 

 inner web ; " bill black ; legs dark grey ; iris brown " (A. Everett). 

 Total length 3-4 inches, culmeu 0'-i5, wing 1-95, tail 0'95, tarsus 0"5. 

 (^Mus. 11. Cr. Wardlaw liamsat/.) 



Adult female. Different from the male. Above greenish grey, 

 more olive-yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts 

 dusky brown with a steel-green gloss, and edged narrowly with 

 olive-yellow ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts and quills blackish 

 brown, the secondaries glossed with steel-green and edged with olive- 

 yellow like the wing-coverts, the primaries margined with bluish 

 grey ; tail-feathers black, with bluish-grey margins ; head like the 

 back, the forehead rather greener ; ear-coverts and sides of neck 

 greenish grey ; feathers below the eye and cheeks yellowish ; throat 

 brighter yellow, becoming ashy grey on the lower throat and fore 

 neck ; centre of breast and abdomen yellow, deeper on the former ; 

 sides of body greener ; thighs white, washed with yellow ; under 

 tail-coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed 

 with j'cUow ; quills blackish below, white along the edge of the inner 

 web ; " bill dark brown, the base ochreous ; legs dark leaden grey ; 

 iris brown" (A. Everett). Total length 3-2 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 1-9, tail 0-9, tarsus 0-5. (J/«s. 11. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



Hah. Island of Mindanao. 



a. (S ad. sk. Placer, July 1877 (A. Capt. E. G. Wardlaw 



Everett). Ramsay. 



b. c? ad. sk. Zamboanga, April (A. Capt. R. G. Wardlaw 



Everett). Ramsay. 



39. Dicaeum ignipectus. 



Micrura ignipectus, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 36. 



lig. 393. 

 Myzauthe ignipectus, Hodgs. J. A. S. Bemj. xii. p. 983 (1843) ; Blytlx, 



Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 227 (1849) ; Bp. Conyj. i. p. 402 (18o0) ; 



Goidd, B. Asia, ii. pi. 40 (1854) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 



Mm. ii. p. 751 (18.36) ; Jerd. B. hul. \. p. 377 (1802) ; Peh. Ibis, 



1868, p. 307 ; Godwin-Amten, J. A. S. Betir/. xxxix. p. 98 (1870) ; 



Stcinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 349; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 19; Hume, Nests 



