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The sexes are precisely alike in plumage, and the young 

 soon attain the colouring of the adult. 



The whole of the plumage, with the exception of the 

 primaries and secondaries, yellowish olive, but the under 

 surface much paler than the upper; forehead, stripe from 

 the angle of the lower mandible, ring encircling and dilated 

 into a spot above the eye, black ; ear-coverts olive-brown ; 

 primaries and secondaries dark brown, the former mar- 

 gined with grey and the latter with yellowish olive; bill 

 fine yellow ; tarsi and toes fine orange yellow ; eye dark 

 leaden brown ; eyelash leaden grey ; bare space below and 

 behind the eye orange-red. 



Genus DICTUM, Cuvier. 



The continent of India, the Indian Islands, and New Guinea 

 are the countries in which the members of this geims abound ; 

 as yet only a single species has been found in Australia. 



Sp. 358. ' DICTUM HIRUNDINACEUM. 



Swallow Dictum. 



Sylvia hirundinacea, Shaw, Nat. Misc., vol. iv. pi. 114. 

 Swallow Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp. vol. ii. p. 250. 

 Pipra desmaretii, Leach, Zool. Misc., vol. i. p. 94. pi. 41. 

 Crimson-throated Honey-sucker, Lewin, Birds of New Holl., pi. 7. 

 Desmaretian Manakin, Sliaw, Gen. Zool., vol. x. p. 18. 

 Dicceum atrogaster, Less. Tvaite d'Orn., p. 303. 



pardalotus, Cuv. De la Fres. Mag. de Zool., 1833, pi. 14. 



Microchelidon hirundinacea, Eeich. Handb. der Spec. Orn., p. 243. 

 Moo-ne-je-tang, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Aus- 

 tralia. 



Dicaeum hinmdinaceum, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, voL ii. 

 pL34. 



By far the greater number of the Australians are, I 

 believe, unacquainted with this beautiful little bird, yet 



