44 Bic^iD^i;. 



Hah. Islands of Luzon, Leyte, Guimaras, and Palawan, in the 

 Philippine archipelago. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Philippine Islands. Mr. Fortune [C.]. 



h. (S ad. sk. Monte Alban, Luzon, Capt. R. G. Wardlaw 



Feb. {A. Everett). liamsay. 



41. DicsBum. chrysorrhceum. 



Dicaeum chrysorrhoeum, Temm. PI. Col. iv. pi. 478. fig. 1 (1829) ; 

 Strickl. P. Z. S. ISiG, p. 100; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847); 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 227 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 403 

 (18o0) ; Reichenb. Harnlb. Scans, p. 241, Taf. dlvii. tigs. 3790-91 

 (18o3) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. B.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 751 (1856) ; 

 Jerd. B. hid. i. p. 374 (1862) ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 114, no. 1417 

 (1869) ; Hume. Ibis, 1870, p. 437 ; Blanf. t. c. p. 467 ; Walden, 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 380; Hume, Sir. F. 1874, p. 473; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 

 p. 168 (1874) ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Bern;, xliii. pt. 2, p. 156 

 (1874); Bhjth 8f Wakl B. Burni. p. 142 (1875); Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1877, p. 17 ; Hume Sf Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 195 ; Andersson, 

 Zool. Yunnan E.vped. p. 663 (1878); Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 56, 

 190; Binff/mm, Str. F. 1880, p. 170; Oates, Str. F. 1881, p. 198; 

 Nichols, ibis, 1881, p. 151; Kelham, t. c. p. 505; Miiller, Vog. 

 Lisel Salamja, p. 22 (1882) ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 335 (1883). 



Dicffium chrysochlore, Blyth, J. A. S. Bemj. xii. p. 1009 (1843). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dull yellowish 

 olive, a little more pronounced on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, quills, and tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with yellowish 

 olive ; crown of head, sides of face, and ear-coverts yellowish olive 

 like the back, a little more dusky below the eyes and on the lores, 

 above the latter being a small linear streak of dull white ; cheeks 

 white, separated from the throat by a moustachial line of dusky 

 blackish, which also skirts the edges of the lower jaw ; throat 

 ■white ; remainder of under surface of body creamy white, broadly 

 streaked with blackish on the fore neck, breast, and sides of the 

 body, the streaks more or less washed with olive, especially on the 

 lower flanks, where the stripes are less distinct ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white, the edge of the wing dusky ; quills dull brown 

 below, whitish along the edge of the inner web ; " iris crimson" 

 (A. Everett) ; " upper mandible and tip of lower mandible black, rest 

 of lower mandible plumbeous ; legs and feet very dark plumbeous ; 

 iris orange-red to bright crimson" (Davison). Total length 3-9 

 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-35, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-6. (Mus. Luc/d.) 



Adult female (Borneo). Identical in plumage with the male; 

 " iris orange ; legs leaden " (A. Everett). Total length 3-8 inches, 

 wing 2'35, tail 1"1, tarsus 0'55. 



Hah. From the Eastern Himalayas, through the Burmese coun- 

 tries, down the Malayan peninsula, to Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



n. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). India !>[useiim. 



b. 6 ad. sk. Eangoon, Oct. 1874. E. W. Oates, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Tenasserim (Heifer). India Museum. 



d. rS ad. sk. Malacca. ' A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 ^j/) 9> ^'- ^^- ^^' Malacca (Cantor). India Museum. 



i. Ad. sk. West coast of Sumatra. Dr. Faber [C.]. 



