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yellow ; crown of the head, nape and hind neck olive yellow ; ear coverts olive 

 yellow ; cheeks, throat, foreneck and breast golden yellow ; under wing 

 coverts and axillaries pale yellow ; thighs and under tail coverts bright yellow. 

 Bill horny, plumbeous at the base of the lower mandible and at the angle of 

 the mouth; feet and claws light plumbeous ; iris light reddish brown. 



Length. 4 to 4*2 inches; wing 1-95 to 2; tail r6; tarsus 0-55 ; culmen 



0-45- 



Hal. Siam, extending into Burmah. Gates says it is abundant in 

 Southern Pegu from Rangoon up to Kyeikpadien and Pegu. Mr. Davison 

 met with it in Tenasserim, and Capt. Wardlaw-Ramsay procured it in Karenne. 

 It is found only in forests and remote orchards in high trees, to the tops of 

 which it persistently keeps. 



Section. FRINGILLIFORMES. 



Wings with generally nine primaries ; the first well developed and long, 

 except in Prionochilus and Pardalotus. 



Family . DIC^EID^ . 



Bill moderate, broad at the base, the culmen curved ; tip entire ; wings with 

 nine primaries ; habits nearly similar to those of the Sun-birds. 



Gen. Dicseum. Cuv. 



Bill creeper-like, broad at the base ; tip entire ; culmen curved ; wings 

 with the first three primaries sub-equal, the second slightly the longest ; tail 

 short, exceeding the wing in length. Birds of small size. 



751- DiCSOUm Cruentatum (Linn.), Strickl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. xiii. p. 38 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 402 ; Cab. Mus. Hein.'i. p. 98 ; Tythr, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiii. p. 373 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. vi. (1854) ; 

 Wald., P. Z. S. 1866, p. 544 ; Hume, Nt sis and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 155 ; id., Str. 

 F. 1874, p. 473 5 l8 75> P- 8 7> Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. p. 142 ; Hume, Sir. 

 F. 1875, p. 87; Armstrong, Str. F. 1876, p. 315 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 

 1878, p. 192 ; Anderson, Yunnan - Exped. p. 663 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. \. 

 p. 332; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Burnt.*. 15. Certhia cruentata, Linn., Syst. 

 Nat. i. p. 87; Lath., Ind. Orn. i. p. 296. Dicoeum erythronotum, Cuv., Regne. 

 Anim. i. p. 410; Blytli, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 983. Dictum coccimeum, 

 Gray, Gen. B. i. p. lOO; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 373; Beavan, Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 365; Godwin- Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix., p. 99; Jerd., Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 18. The SCARLET-BACKED FLOWER-PECKER. 



Forehead, crown, nape, back, rump and upper tail coverts rich crimson ; 

 lores, sides of the head and neck, also the tail, wings and wing coverts black ; 

 chin, throat and the whole lower plumage buffy white ; flanks and sides of the 

 body ashy grey; axillaries and under wing coverts pure white. Bill and 

 mouth black ; legs and feet black ; iris dark brown ; eyelids plumbeous. 



