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paler than in the female of C. jugularis, and the base of the 

 culmen is conspicuonsly narrower. Total length 3'8-4*l 

 inches, wing 1-9-20, tail 1-2-1-3, tarsus 0-5-0-55, culmen 

 0-8-0-85. 



47. ZosTEROPS MEYENij Bouap. ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 



ix. p. 180 (188J). 



48. Dictum luzoniense, Grant, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. 1 

 (1894). 



Apparently the form most closely related to this beautiful 

 new Flower-pecker is D. ignipedus, Hodgson, found in the 

 Himalayas and Burmese countries and also recorded from 

 the province of Fokien, in China. The great difference 

 between the two males is that in the Luzon bird the red patch 

 extends from the upper throat all over the chest and upper 

 breast; the sides and flanks are more olivaceous and less 

 cinnamon, and the under tail-coverts are orange-buff instead 

 of pale buff. In fact, so far as the underparts of the body 

 go, D. luzoniense closely resembles the purple-backed Kina- 

 Balu bird D. monticola, but the dark band down the middle 

 of the breast is absent m the latter species, and the under 

 tail-coverts are pale buff instead of orange-buff. Total 

 length 3-4-3-6 inches, wing 2-0-2-2, tail 1-0-1-2, tarsus 

 0-45-0 '5, culmen 0-45. 



The female resembles the female of D. ignipectus, but the 

 top of the head and back are very distinctly glossed with 

 metallic green as in the male, though the gloss is much less 

 pronounced. In some females of D. ignipectus the head is 

 slightly glossed, but the back is always olive-green. Total 

 length 3-4 inches, wing 1-95, tail Tl, tarsus 0-48, culmen 

 0-45. 



49. Dictum pygm^um (Kittl.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus, 

 X. p. 43 (1885). 



50. DicjLUM OBSCURUM, Grant, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. ] 

 (1894). 



This is a very sombre member of the plainest section of 

 this genus of Flower-peckers. The sexes are perfectly 



