2 NEW RACE OF FLOWER-PECKEE. 



(Bombay Presidenc}^ has forehead and lores white, olivaceum 

 Walden, recorded from E. Himalayas to Malacca and Suma- 

 tra, has the throat yellowish-white like the under surface 

 of the body, not ashy-grey. The same is said to be the case 

 with minulluni Swinhoe from Hainan, while everetti Tweed- 

 dale from the Philippine archipelago has the under tail-coverts 

 of the same "pale olive-greenish" tint as the flanks, etc. The 

 race on the Andaman Islands, virescens Hume, has "the 

 abdomen, flanks and sides of body olive-yellow, under tail- 

 coverts white." 



The races everetti, vireseens, olivaeeum, and suhflavuin 

 appear also to have a greater length of wing, while it seems 

 to be smaller in niinnllitrn. 



The race D. ni. uehidai described by Kuroda from Formosa 

 is unfortunately not known to me, but it appears improbable 

 that it is identical with the bird from Borneo, and in 

 such a case it is very likely, that the latter represents an 

 endemic race, which may be named Dicaemn ininullum 

 horneanitm to indicate its origin. 



Dr. Mjoberg is thus to be congratulated on the discovery of 

 this hitherto missing link in the chain of geographic races of 

 the plain-coloured Flower-peckers, so widely distributed in the 

 Oriental region. 



