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42. Dicaeum concolor. 



Dicfeiim concolor, Jerd. Maclr. Journ. xi. p. 227 (1840) ; id. HI. Ind. 

 Orn. pi. 39 (1847) ; Grm/, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 

 Mm. As. Soc. p. 227 (184!)) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 403 (18-50) ; Reichenb. 

 Handb. Scans, p. 241, Taf. dlvi. %. 3780 (1853); Jerd. B. Ind. i, 

 p. 375 (1862) ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. llo, no. 1424 (1869) ; Hvme, 

 Nests undEqqs Ind. B. p. 156 (1873) ; Morqan, Ibis, 1875, p. 316 ; 

 Fairb. Str. F. 1876, pp. 256, 265, & 1877, p. 399 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 1870, p. 90. 



Adult male. General colour above dingj- olive-brown, rather more 

 a.sliy olive on the mantle and upper back ; ■wing-covcrts like the 

 back ; bastard-'wing and primary-coverts uniform dark brown ; 

 quilh dark brown, narrowly edged with dull olive-yellowish, more 

 distinct on the secondaries ; tail-feathers dark brown, slightly mar- 

 gined with olive ; head like the back, but mottled with dusky centrea 

 to the feathers ; extreme base of forehead, lores, and eyelid whitish, 

 as also a slight eyebrow ; car-coverts pale dingy olive, with hair-like 

 whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and feathers below the eye, as well as 

 the throat, whitish, faintly washed with olive ; centre of breast and 

 abdomen verj' pale olive-yellowish, as well as the thighs and under 

 tail-coverts ; the chest, sides of breast, and sides of body ashy olive ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white with a faint yellowish 

 tinge ; quills dusky below, whitish along the edge of the inner web ; 

 " bill slate-colour ; legs dark slaty brown ; iris brown "' {li. G. W. 

 H.). Total length 3"7 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2, tail 1-15, 

 tarsus 0'5. (Mus. M. G. Wardlaw liamsay.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather darker olive-brown 

 above. Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-95, tail 1"05, 

 tarsus 0-5. {Mus. li. G. W. li.) 



Hah. Hills of Southern India. 



a. Ad. sk. Coonoor, Aug. 24, 1876 Capt. E. G. Wardlaw 



{B. G. W. R.). Eamsay. 



43. Dicjeum inornatum. 



Myzanthe inomata, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. 3fns., Passeres, pi. 37. 

 no. 395 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844) ; Gray, List Mamm, 

 Sf B. Kepcd pres. Hodc/s. p. 00 (1846). 



Dicseum olivaceum, IValdcn, Ann. 4' Mag. Kat. Hist. (4) xv. p. 401 

 (1875) ; id. in Blyth, B. Burm. p. 143 ( 1875) ; Hume, Str.F. 1875, 

 p. 403, 1876, p. 498 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 302 ; Hume 4- Davison, 

 Str. F. 1878, p. 195; Hume, Str.F. 1879, p. 90; Biiiyham, Str. F. 

 1880, p. 171 ; Gates, B. Brit. Burm.'i. p. 333 (1883). 



Dicaeum inornatum, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 580. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dull olive, a little 

 clearer ohve on the rump and lower back ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back ; bastard-wing and primar}--coverts uniform 

 blackish brown ; greater coverts and quills blackish brown, edged 

 ■with olive, brighter and more yellow on the primaries ; tail-feathers 

 blackish brown, edged with olive ; lores, sides of face, and cheeks 



