68 VICMTDM. 



Dicseiun thoracicum, Gray, Gen. B. i. p, 100 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 116, no. 1444 (1869). 

 Anaimos tboracicus, Beichenb. Handb, Scansoncs, p. 245, Taf. dlviii. 



figs. 8798-99 (1853). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above bright olive- 

 yeUow on the mantle and upper back ; lesser wing-coverts bright 

 yellow, forming a shoulder-patch ; median and greater coverts as 

 well as the quills deep black ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts blight yellow ; tail-feathers deep black ; entire head and 

 hind neck, sides of neck, sides of face, and throat blue-black, with 

 a central longitudinal patch of bright scarlet on the crown ; throat 

 and fore neck bright scarlet, forming a pectoral shield, which is 

 surrounded by a deep circlet of blue-black, extending down from the 

 sides of the neck and narrowing on the breast ; rest of under surface 

 of body pale yellow, extending on to the sides of the upper breast ; 

 flanks greener, with grey bases ; thighs ashy ; under tail-coverts 

 bright yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; a blackish 

 spot near the edge of the wing ; quills blackish below, white along 

 the edge of the inner web : " bill black ; legs dark lead-colour ; 

 iris yellow " (A. Everett). Total length 3'5 inches, culmen 0'4, 

 wing 2-25, tail 1*1, tarsus 0'6. 



Adult female. Diiferent from the male. General colour above 

 dingy yellowish olive, brighter and more golden-yellow on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and quills dusky brown, edged 

 with olive-yellowish, rather brighter on the margin of the primaries ; 

 tail-feathers dusky brown, with dingy oUve margins ; head a little 

 more ashy than the back and washed with olive : in the centre of 

 the crown a patch of dull safft-on-yeUow ; ear-coverts and sides of 

 face dingy ashy brown, washed with oUve like the head ; cheeks 

 yellow, separated from the throat, which is also pale yeUow, by a 

 dusky olive malar streak ; on the fore neck aud chest a shield of pale 

 vermiliou, varied with the yellow bases to the feathers ; remainder of 

 under surface of body and under tail-coverts brighter yellow ; the 

 flanks and sides of body olive, intermixed with ashy where the grey 

 bases to the feathers show through ; sides of the upper breast 

 especially washed with ashy ; axiUaries and under wing-coveiis 

 white, the edge of the wing olive ; quills dusky below, whitish along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 3"1 inches, culmen 0*35, 

 wing 2-05, tail 0'95, tarsus 0"5. (2Ius. Luc/d.) 



Young male. At first resembling the adult female and gradually 

 assuming the full phimage by a moult. 



Hal). Malayan peninsula and Borneo. 



a. S ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



h. (S ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. Sarawak. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



d. S ad. sk. Sarawak. Harold Everett, Esq. [C.]. 

 c. S ad. sk. Biutulu. Alfred Everett, Esq. [0.]. 

 f,g. cJ $ ad. sk. Lumbidan {H. Low.), E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 h, i. S juv. ; Ic, I. Lumbidan {H. Loiv). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



5 juv. sk. 



