5. Dicjsrir. 43 



a. S ad. sk. Himalayas. Capt. Bovs [C.j. 



A. d'; c. 2 ad. sk. N.W. llimalaTas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



d. 2 ad. sk. Xear Simla. Capt. Stackhouse Pmwill 



[P.]. 



e, f, 9,Ji. S; I- 2 J^'epal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 ad. sk. (Types of species.) 



k, I, 7)1. (S; n. 2 Nepal {Hodgson). India" Museum. 



ad. sk. 



o. d ad. sk. Darjiling. Gould Collection. 



p,q. d 2 'I'i- sk. Bootan {Pembertoit). India Museum. 



40. DicaBum pygmaeum. 



Nectarinia pvgmasa, KittL Mem. pres. Acad. St. Petersb. ii nts 1 ■> 

 pi. 2 (laStlj. if • > > 



Dicseum pygmaeum, Gratj, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; Bp. Consp i 

 p. 403 (18-30) ; lieichenb. Handh. Scans, p. •242, Taf. dlvi. fio-. 37SI 

 {l6-'y.i) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 115, no. 14-06 (18G9). ° 



Myzauthe pygmi^a, Walden, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. -00 (1875) ; Sharpe 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. i. p. .352 (1870) ; Tweedd P Z S 

 1877, p. 698, 1878, pp. 343, 620 ; Wardlaw Ranisau, Orn. Work's 

 Tweedd. p. 658 (1881 ). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy steel-green, somewhat 

 metallic ; scapulars like the back; lower back and rump olive-yellow ; 

 upper tail-coverts glossy steel-green ; wing-coverts metallic steel- 

 blue ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, externally 

 steel-blue, some of the greater coverts and inner secondaries nar- 

 rowly edged with olive-yellow; tail-feathers black, with a steel- 

 blue gloss ; head like the back, glossy steel-green ; lores, feathers 

 round the eye, ear-coverts, and cheeks,'as well as sides of neck and 

 sides of throat, dark slaty grey; tliroat and fore neck whitish, 

 washed with yellow, a little more yellowish buff on the breast ,' 

 sides of body and flanks dull yellowish olive ; sides of upper breast 

 dark slaty grey ; thighs dusky, with a wash of yellow ; under tail- 

 coverts pale yellowish white; under wing-coverts and axillariea 

 white, the edge of the wing spotted with dusky bases to the feathers ; 

 quills blackish below, white along the edge of the inner web ; " bill^ 

 legs, and claws black ; iris dark brown" (.4. Everett). Total' leno-th 

 '3-2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-So, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-5. (JIus^H. 

 G. ^Vardlaw Bavisco/.) 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in not being so glossy 

 above, the upper surface being olive-yellowish, brighter on thelower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; head more ashy than the back, 

 and motlled with dusky blackish bases ; wing-coverts, quills, and 

 tail blackish with a steel-green gloss, the feathers aU narrowly 

 edged with olive ; throat and fore neck ashy white, washed with 

 olive ; centre of breast and abdomen yellow'ish buff, the sides of 

 the body pale yellowish olive ; under tail-coverts pale olive-yellow. 

 Total length 'A inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-75, tail 0-9, tarsus 0-45' 

 (Mus. E. G. W. B.) o , . 



