452 Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on a 



as also the bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills, the 

 latter blackish; lower rump and upper tail-coverts bright 

 yellow; tail-feathers uniform blackish brown ; crown of head 

 like the back; lores and feathers round eye uniform brown ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of neck brown, narrowly streaked with 

 white ; cheeks hoary white, streaked with brown edges to the 

 feathers ; throat and under surface of body streaked like the 

 upper surface, the white centres to the feathers much broader ; 

 thighs white, streaked with brown ; vent and under tail- 

 coverts bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 brown, with longitudinal whitish centres ; quills below dark 

 brown, ashy brownish along the inner edge. Total length 7 

 inches, culmen 2, wing 3 '4, tail 2, tarsus 0"7. 



Fam. Meliphagid^. 



29. ZosTEROPS AUREivENTER, Humc ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. ix. p. 163. 



Not to be separated from a Tenasserim typical specimen. 



Fam. DiCiEiDiE. 



30. Dictum monticolum, sp. n. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy purplish blue; 

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

 bastard wing, and primary-coverts black, edged with purplish 

 blue ; quills black, the secondaries edged with purplish blue ; 

 upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers blue-black ; 

 crown of head glossy purplish blue, like the back ; lores, sides 

 of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks blackish, slightly glossed with 

 purplish blue; chin whitish; throat, fore neck, and breast 

 bright scarlet, followed by a large patch of dark ashy on the 

 lower breast and abdomen ; sides of upper breast dark slaty 

 grey ; abdomen ashy, slightly washed with olive, yellowish 

 white towards the vent ; sides of body and flanks dull olive- 

 yellow ; thighs dark ashy ; under tail-coverts pale saffron- 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills 

 below blackish, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 3*7 

 inches, culmen 0"4, Aving 1-95, tail 1'15, tarsus 0'5. 



Extremely close to D. sulaense, Sharpe (Cat. B. x. p. 24), 



