48 DIC^ID^. 



47. Licseum erythrorhynchum. 



Eed-billed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Sijn. Stippl. i. p. 133 (1787), 



Certhia ervthrorhynchos, Lafk. Ind. Oni. i. p. 299 (1790). 



Nectarinia miuima, Tickclf, J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 577 (1833). 



Dicffium tickelliffi, Blyth, J. A. S. Bvmj. xi. p. 889 (1842), xii. p. 983 

 (1843), xiii. p. 393 (1844), xiv. p. 558 (1845). 



DicfEum miniiiium, Blyth, Ann. i^ Maq. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 316 

 (1847); Tytler, oj}. ch. (2) xiii. p. 373 (18-54); B/i/th. Cat. B. 

 Mm. As. Soc. p. 227 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 403 (1850) 

 liei'chenb. Handb. Scans, p. 241 (1853) ; Hursf. 4'- Moore, Cat. B. 

 E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 750 (1854) ; Jerd. B. liid. i. p. 374 (18G2 

 Beavan, Ibis, 18Uo, p. 416 ; Brooks, Ibis, 18C9, p. 47 ; Graij 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 115, uo. 1425 (1809); Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 468 

 Hume, Nests and Eyt/s Ind. B. p. 155 (1873) ; Ball, Str. F. 1874 

 p. 397 ; Faii-b. Sir. F. 1876, p. 256 ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 349 

 Ball, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 208; Zfc/r/e, B. Ceylon, p. 574 

 (1879) ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bombay Pres. p. 30 (1880). 



DicfBiim ervthrorhyncbum, Blyth i^- Wald. B. Burnt, p. 143 (1875); 

 Fairb. Str. F. 1877, p. 399 ; Hintie S,- Davison, Str. F. 1878, 

 p. 196 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 90 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 57 ; 

 Butler, t. c. p. 390 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 334 (1883). 



Adult. General colour above aF.hj olive-brown, the head faintly 

 mottled -with smaU dusky centres to the feathers ; wing-coverts and 

 quills rather browner than the back, with a slight greenish gloss 

 on the feathers, which have also obsolete narrow margins of olive ; 

 tail blackish brown ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts pale ashy 

 brown, the latter slightly streaked with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks 

 and under surface of bocly pale ashy with a slight olive tinge ; the 

 centre of the body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts buffy whitish ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillarics white, ashy along the edge of the 

 wing ; quills dusky brown below, ashy whitish along the edge of 

 the inner web ; " bill pale fleshy, with a dusky tip ; legs leaden 

 brown ; iris brown " (Jerdon) ; " bill dark brown above, the lower 

 mandible fleshy ; legs and feet brownish slate ; iris yellowish 

 brown or brown " (Lec/r/e). Total length 3'2 inches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 2-0, tail 0'95, tarsus 0-55. 



Young. Iris darker brown than in the adult, with a slaty outer 

 circle; upper mandible tinged with yellowish, and its margin, to- 

 gether with the under mandible, yellowish. Above, more olivaceous 

 than old birds ; quills and wing-coverts edged greenish ; throat and 

 fore neck duskier than in adults. (Legge.) 



Hah. Ceylon ; Lower Bengal and Central India as far as the 

 Eastern Himalayas and Assam, extending through Arakan to 

 Moulmein in Tenasserim. 



a. 5 ad. sk. South Ceylon (Leyye). E. W. Oates, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. Madras (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Belgaum (Hutt). Gould Collection. 

 e,f,g. Ad.sk. Dacca (7y</e/-). India Museimi. 



h. Ad. sk. Bengal {As. Soc. Beng.). India Museum. (Type of 



I), tichellicc.) 

 i. Ad. ; h. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



I, m. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



w. Ad. sk. India. Gould Collection. 



