13. PRIONOCHILUS. 69 



5. Prionochilus maculatus. 



Pardalotus maculatus, Temni. PI. Col. iii. pi. 600. fig. 3 (1836). 



Prionochilus maculatus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 29 ; Horsf. Sf Moore 

 Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mils. ii. p. 752 (1856) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859,' 

 p. 464 ; Salvad. Atti JR. Accad. Torin. iii. p. 418 (1868) ; Walden, 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 379 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 164 (1874) ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 43, 1877, p. 17 ; mime $■ Davison, Sir. F. 1878, 

 p. 199 ; Sume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 56, 90 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 506 ; 

 Sharpe, P.Z. S. 1881, p. 795 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 340 (1883). 



Dicseum maculatum, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847); id. Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 116, no. 1441 (1869). 



Prionochilus tlioracicus $, Bli/th, Cat. B. 3fus. As. Soc. p 227 

 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 335 (1868). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above uniform olivaceous, 

 the lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts 

 and quills dusky brown, edged externally with olive, a little paler 

 in shade than the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with 

 olive ; head like the back, with an orange patch in the centre of the 

 crown, the feathers tipped with tiny olive spots ; lores obscure ashy 

 whitish ; sides of face olive like the crown ; cheeks dull white, washed 

 with olive behind ; a broad moustachial streak of dusky olive, con- 

 tinuous with the striping of the rest of the uuderparts ; centre of 

 the throat, breast, abdomeu, and under tail-coverts yellow, paler 

 towards the chin ; flanks washed with olive, and having broad lon- 

 gitudinal streaks of dusky olive, very distinct on the sides of the 

 fore neck and breast ; under wing-coverts and axUlaries white with 

 a faint wash of yellow, and with a dusky patch near the edge of the 

 wing ; quills ashy brown below, white along the edge of the inner 

 web : " legs and feet very dark plumbeous in males, dirty smalt-blue 

 in females ; upper mandible and lower mandible to angle of gonvs 

 black, rest plumbeous in males, smalt-blue in females ; iris dull red " 

 (Davison); "ii'is dragon's-blood red" (A. Everett). Total length 

 3-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-05, tail 1-1, tarsus 0-55. (Mus. 

 Lugd.) 



Adult female. Very similar to the male in colour, but having the 

 patch on the crown paler and more orange, that of the male being 

 vermilion ; " iris crimson " {A. Everett). 



The sexes measure as follows : — 



Total length. Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 

 in. in. in. in. in. 



cJ . Sarawak ( fFa?/«ce) . . 3'6 0-45 2-05 1-1 0-55 



5. Sarawak (TI7///flcO.. 3-0 0-4 2-0 0-95 0-55 



Hah. From the southern portion of Tenasserim down the Malayan 

 peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 



a, 6, c. Ad. sk. Malacca (Cawdor). India Museum. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Penang (Cantor). India Museimi. 



f,(/. <S 2 ad. sk. Sarawak. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



h, i. c? 2 ad. sk. Tjantang, Borneo India Musemn. 



(Mus. Lugd.). 



k. $ ad. sk. Tjantang, Borneo Gould Collection. 



(Mus, Lugd.). 



