13. PRIONOCHILUS. 65 



/". Larger ; wing 2-4 inches : upper surface 

 ashy brown, washed with olive on the 

 rump and upper taU-coverts ; two outer 



tail-feathers tipped with white squalidus, p. 73. 



g". Smaller; wing 2-35 inches : upper surface 

 olive-gi'eenish ; four outer tail-feathers 



tipped with white modeshts, p. 74. 



d'. Breast perfectly uniform, with no dusky 

 streaks. 

 h". Outer tail-feathers with a white spot on 



the tips obsoletus, p. 75. 



i". No white tips to outer tail-feathers. 

 g'". Upper surface of body olive-green ; 

 ear-coverts also olive-gi-een ; cheeks 



and sides of breast grey olivaceus, p. 75. 



h'". Upper surface brown ; ear-coverts 

 brown; cheeks and sides of breast 

 ashy brown everetti, p. 76. 



1. PrionocMlus percussus. 



Pardalotus percussus, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 394. fig. 2 (1826). 

 Prlonochilus percussus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 580. 



Adult male (Java ; type of species). Similar to P. ignicapilliis 

 from Borneo and Sumatra, but differing in the following points : — 

 the biU is entirely black ; the chin is white, not yellow ; the spot 

 on the crown is much smaller and deeper scarlet ; the white cheek- 

 stripe is much larger ; and the scarlet patch on the breast is larger 

 and triangular in shape, instead of being longitudinal. Total length 

 3'2 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-95, tail 0-9, tarsus 0'45. (Mus. 

 Lugd.) 



Hab. Java. 



2. Prionochilus ignicapillus. 



Dicffiimi ignicapillum, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. 



Prionochilus percussus (iion Temm.), Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 29 ; 

 Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. pp. 558, 559 (184-5) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. 

 As. Soc. p. 227 (1849) ; Bp. Consj). i. p. 335 (1850) ; Cab. Mm. 

 Hein. Th. i. p. 112 (1850, pt.); Horsf. .y 3Ioore, Cat. B. E.I. Co, 

 Mm. ii. p. 751 (1854) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 403 ; Hume, Str, 

 F. 1879, pp. 56, 90; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 506; Salvin, Cat. 

 Strickl. Coll. p. 171 (1882) ; Bias. Verh. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 

 1883. p. 54 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 339 (1883). 



Dicaeum percussum. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 116, no. 1440 (1869). 



Prionochilus ignicapillus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 580. 



Adult male. General colour above slaty blue ; the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts a little clearer blue ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky blackish, edged 

 externally with slaty blue, lighter on the outer webs of the secon- 

 daries ; tail-feathers blackish, washed on outer webs with slaty 

 blue ; head like the back, more dusky on the forehead and lores ; 

 in the centre of the crown a longitudinal patch of orange-scarlet ; 

 sides of face and ear-coverts slaty blue like the crown ; cheeks 

 white, tinged with yellow posteriorly, and separated from the throat 



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