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The female has the head, nape and back olive green or yellowish olive, a 

 little deeper on the hind neck and mantle, the centres of the feathers of the 

 crown darker ; rump and upper tail coverts bright scarlet ; scapulars and wing 

 coverts dull steel-green, edged with olive ; quills dusky with narrow olive 

 margins ; tail blue black ; ear coverts pale brown ; lores and cheeks ashy 

 fulvous, the bases of the feathers dusky ; throat and under surface of the body 

 ashy buff, darker on the sides of the neck and body; axillaries and under wing 

 coverts white. 



Length. 3-3 to 3*5 inches; wing 1-9; tail 0*95 to ro5 ; tarsus 0-5; 

 culmen 0-45. 



Hab. S.-E. Himalayas, throughout the Burmese countries and Southern 

 China to Hainan and down the Malayan Peninsula to Java and Sumatra. 

 According to Gates it is found over every portion of British Burmah. It is 

 recorded from Arracan, also as being abundant in Southern Pegu, as well as at 

 Thayetmyo. Mr. Davison procured it in every portion of Tenasserim. It is 

 said to be more plentiful in Lower Bengal and Assam, also in Nepaul, occur- 

 ring in all descriptions of jungle, but, according to Gates, most partial to 

 mango trees, and other large trees covered with parasitic plants. Breeds 

 in March and April, building a nest suspended from the extremity of a branch 

 high up. It is egg-shaped and about 4 inches in height, and constructed 

 of the finest white vegetable down. Eggs, 2 3 in number, pure white. 



752. Dicseum trigonostigrma (Scop.\ Gray, Gen. B. \. p. 100; 



Bp. Cojisp. Av. i. p. 403 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Hi. i. p. 98 ; Reichb., Hdbk. Scan- 

 soria, p. 241 ; taf. cllvii., fig. 3, 3788-89; Sdater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 22O ; 

 Wald., P. Z. S. 1866, p. 545 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 422 ; Godwin-Austen, 

 ?. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 303 ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 473 ; Salvad., Nee. 

 Born. p. 166 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 142; Wald, Ibis, 1876, p. 349, pi. x., 

 fig. 2; Hume and Dai'., Str. F. vi. p. 194; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 90: 

 Bingham, Str. F. viii. p. 195; Sharpe, P. Z. S. iSSi, p. 796; Gates, B. 

 Br. Burm. i. p. 336 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 38. Certhia trigono- 

 stigma, Scop., Del. F/or. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 91. Certhia cantillans, 

 Lath., Ind. Orn. i. p. 299. Dictum croceoventre, Vig., Mem. Raffl. 

 p. 673. The ORANGE-BELLIED FLOWER-PECKER. 



Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and of the neck, scapulars and 

 wing coverts glossy leaden blue ; lores, sides of the face and ear coverts 

 leaden blue ; back bright yellow, inclining to flaming orange yellow on the 

 mantle and upper back ; upper tail coverts slaty or leaden blue ; tail black, 

 edged narrowly with slaty blue ; bastard wing, primary coverts and quills 

 blackish, edged narrowly with slaty blue ; chin, throat, cheeks, foreneck and 

 breast pale slaty grey ; abdomen, sides of the body, vent and under tail 

 coverts rich or flaming orange ; under wing coverts and axillaries white, 

 mottled with greyish on the edge of the wing. 



