430 ON THE LATE colo]st:l tickell's [1876. 



made convinces me that Captain Shelley is justified in thinking that the Burmese form should be 

 specifically separated. It is a species intermediate between JE. miles and ^. etipogon, as will be 

 seen by the following key -.-^ 



M. miles. Cap, rectrices, and upper tail-coverts dark metallic green ; violet moustachial stripe 

 simple ; base of lower throat-feathers black. 



M. cava. Caj) and upper tail-coverts green ; rectrices dark steel-blue, tinted with violet ; 

 base of lower throat-feathers white ; violet moustachial stripe simple. 



^. eupogon. Cap, upper tail-coverts, and rectrices metallic violet ; base of lower throat- 

 feathers white ; A-iolet moustachial stripe internally margmed with black. 



N. seherice must still therefore be looked for in Borabhoom ; but as Colonel Tickell identifies 

 it with JE. miles, and as his original description of the Borabhoom bird agrees to the letter with 

 J?, miles, I have little doubt that N. seheri(B=jE. miles, in which case Colonel Tickell's title will 

 have precedence. 



The remaining Himalayan species of JEthopygw are all beautifully figured. But Antho- 



threptns malaccensis, 6 2 , "locality not known," is figured under the erroneous title of N. zejjlonica, 



and A. flammaxillaris 6 , ex Rangoon, under the incorrect name of N.jugnlaris. Nectarophila 



Ibis, 1876, hasseltii, 6 2 , ex Akyah, and Chalcoj)ana phcenicotis, 6 exAkyab, § ex Tongu-ngoo [Tonghoo], 



p. 349. 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 Dica^inte. Figure 1, on the first plate, is entitled JJicmun iJiinimum, 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. criientatum, ? vel 6 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 obtained in the Saul jungles of Borabhoom and Dhalbhoom, but a totally distinct bird. 



The second figure is of i>. cruentatum 6 adult; and the third (which completes the plate) 

 is entitled " Uicaum chri/sorrhoeum, Temm., J , Ye, Tenasserim." As described, this is B. trigo- 

 owstigma $ vel 6 juv., and agrees well with Moulmein and Malaccan examples. As depicted, 

 the species is difficult to identify, the yellowish green back and striated throat, breast, and flanks 

 recalling D. chrysorrlmum. No description of I), trigonostigma § appears to have been published ; 

 and I therefore give one, and also a figure of it (Plate IX. fig. 2, in orig.). Chin, throat, upper 

 breast, and checks 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 yellow, 

 inclining on the mesial line to pale orange. Plumage 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. Axillaries and under wing-coverts silky white. 

 Inner edges of the quills, for a part of their length, white ; outer edges grey or silvery white. 

 I), trigonostigma 2 vel d juv. is exceedingly like J), virescens, Hume, j ? , ex Andamans (Str. 

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

 Ibis, 1876, Mr. Davison, and identified by Mr. Hume with I), virescens (Str. F. 1874, p. 473), belong to 

 p. 350. jj trigonostigma 2 . 



The second plate of the Dica^intc contains two figures : — No. 1, entitled Piprisoma agile, ex 



