MS. ''Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.'' 349 



(^ $ , ex Akyab, and Chalcoparia ph(enicotis, ,$ ex Akyab, 

 $ ex Tongungoo, adorn the last two plates, representing 

 the true Sun-birds. 



The next two plates contain figures of (according to Colonel 

 Tickell) five distinct species of the Dicseinae. Figure 1, on 

 the first plate, is entitled Dicaum minimum, Tickell, and stated 

 to have been drawn from a male example obtained at Ye. 

 As described, the bird may be D. minimum ; but as figured, it 

 is certainly D. cruentatum ? vel ^ juv. The upper tail- 

 coverts are coloured red in the plate ; and so is the base of 

 the bill. The figure does not represent Tickell's type ob- 

 tained in the Saul jungles of Borabhoom and Dhalbhoom, 

 but a totally distinct bird. 



The second figure is of D. cruentatum ^ adult; and the 

 third (which completes the plate) is entitled " Dicaum chry- 

 sorhceum, Temm., ^ , Ye, Tenasserim." As described, this is 

 D. trigonostigma ? vel J* juv., and agrees well with Moul- 

 mein and Malaccan examples. As depicted, the species is 

 difficult to identify, the yellowish green back and striated 

 throat, breast, and flanks recalling D, chrysorrhceum. No 

 description of D. trigonostigma ? appears to liave been 

 published; and I therefore give one, and also a figure of 

 it (Plate IX. fig. 2). Chin, throat, upper breast, and 

 cheeks pale ashy grey, palest on the chin and throat, which 

 sometimes are tinged with yellow. Remainder of breast, 

 abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts more or less yel- 

 low, inclining on the mesial line to pale orange. Plu- 

 mage of upper surface ashy, in some tinged with olive- 

 green throughout, in others almost pure ashy on the head, 

 nape, and wing-coverts. Uropygium tinged with yellow, and 

 upper tail-coverts almost orange-ochre. Quills dark brown, 

 edged with ashy olive-green. Rectrices dark brown. Axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts silky white. Inner edges of 

 the quills, for a part of their length, white ; outer edges grey 

 or silvery white. D. trigonostigma $ vel ^ juv. is exceed- 

 ingly like D. virescens, Hume, (^ ? , ex Andamans (Str. F. 

 1873, p. 482); and it may be that the specimens obtained at 

 Pahpoon and neighbourhood by Mr. Davison, and identified 



