5. DIC^TTM. 47 



45. Dicaeum minullum. 



Dicceum minullum, SwinJioe, Ibis, 1S70, p. 240 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 349; David i^ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 83 (1877). 



Adult male. Upper parts olive-green, broAvnish on head, back, 

 and scapulars, yellowish on the rump ; coronal feathers with deep 

 brown centres, giving a spotted appearance to the top of the head ; 

 Aving-feathers hair-brown, edged with olive-green, broadly on the 

 coverts and tertials, and less so on the quills ; tail hair-brown, 

 tipped with brownish white ; throat and belly dusky yellowish, 

 clearer and nearly j^rimrose on the vent ; flanks greyish olive ; 

 axillarics and carj^al edge white, with just a tinge of primrose ; bill 

 deep brown, light bluish grey on lower mandible at base ; irides 

 deep brown ; legs and claws leaden colour. Length about 2-75 

 inches: wing 1-67; tail "867, even; tarsus -416 ; bill, from fore- 

 head, -375. (SwinJioe.)* 



Hah. Island of Hainan. 



46. Dicaeum everetti. 



Dicaeum everetti, Tweedd. Ann. 8f Mar/. Kat. Hid. (4) xx. p. 537 



(1877) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. Ill ; Wardlaiv Ramsay, Orn. Works 



Tweedd. p. 658 (1881). 

 Dicffium modestum, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 380 ; S/tarpe, P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 560. 

 Myzanthe modestum, Wardlaw Eamsay, Orn. Works Tiveedd. p. 658 



(1881). 



Adult male (type of D. modestum). General colour above dark 

 olive-brown, the head uniform with the back ; lesser and median 

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

 uniform dark brown ; greater wing-coverts and quills dark brown, 

 edged with yellowish olive, more distinct on the secondaries ; upper 

 tail-coverts brown, washed with olive ; tail black ; lores, sides of 

 face, and ear-coverts dusky olive-brown, the cheeks lighter olive- 

 ashy ; throat and fore neck ashy grey, olive-yellow on the chin, a 

 tinge of the latter colour also ])ervading the throat; breast and ab- 

 domen pale whitish tinged with yellow; sides of body, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts pale olive-greenish ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 larics white, M'ith a faint tinge of yellow ; quills dusky brown be- 

 low, ashy whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 3-15 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-9, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-5. (Mus. E. 

 G. W. E.) 



Obs. I have compared the types of D. modestum and D. everetti 

 in Capt. Wardlaw Eamsay's collection, and cannot find any specific 

 difference between them. 



Hah. Islands of Dinagat and Panaon in the Philippine archi- 

 pelago. 



* By a most unfortunate accident, the unique type specimen of this species 

 lent to me by Mr. S'eebohm was dropped in the street by tlie messenger and lost. 

 I bare therefore been obliged to reproduce the original description, and have 

 not been able to state definitely whether it is identical with B. inornatmn or not. 



