2-16 



The female has the forehead, crown, nape, back, sides of the head and 

 scapulars olive green ; the rump and upper tail coverts yellow, deepening into 

 orange on the rump ; hind neck dull lead colour ; lores and sides of the face 

 dull lead colour washed with olive green ; tail blackish edged with narrow 

 olive margins ; wing coverts and quills dark brown narrowly edged with olive 

 green ; chin and throat sordid green ; sides of the body ashy green ; abdomen, 

 vent and under tail coverts bright yellow ; centre of the breast deepening into 

 orange ; axillaries and under wing coverts white. Bill, legs and feet horny 

 black in the male ; dark plumbeous in the female ; base of upper mandible 

 reddish brown ; hides grey to dark brown. 



Length. $ to 3-6 inches ; wing r8 to 1-9; tail O'g to I ; tarsus 0*5; bill 

 from gape 0-55. 



ffab. The hills N.-E. of Bengal, through Burmah and Tenasserim, down 

 the Malayan Peninsula to Java, Sumatra and Borneo. It has occurred in 

 Arracan. In Burmah it is said to be a rare species. It has been met with 

 in Pegu, Tavoy and Tenasserim, also in the Karen hills by Captain Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay. 



753. DiCSeum ignipectUS (Hodgs.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. loo ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. 41. Micrura ignipectus, Hodgs., Icon. ined. in 

 Br. Mus. Passer es, pi. 36, fig. 393. Myzanthe ignipectus, Hodgs., J.A.S. B. 

 xii. p 983; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 377, No. 241 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 402; 

 Gould, B. Asia, ii., pi. 46; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix. p 98; Stol., 

 J. A. S. B. xxxvii., pt. ii., p. 24 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 159 ; 

 Wald. in Blyth, B. Burm. p 143 ; David, et. Oust., Ois. Chine, p. 84 ; Hume, 

 and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 200; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 90 ; Scully, Str. F. viii. 

 p. 261 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. \. p. 337. The FIRE-BREASTED FLOWER-PECKER. 



The whole upper plumage glossy steel-green, somewhat metallic ; median 

 and greater coverts, also the bastard wing, primary coverts and quills, black, 

 edged externally with steel-green ; tail blue black, also edged externally with a 

 steel-green gloss ; head, sides of the face, ear coverts and cheeks glossy 

 steel-green, the lores a little darker ; throat and under surface of the body 

 deep ochraceous buff, the lower throat and foreneck with a patch of crimson 

 or deep scarlet, and a longitudinal patch of glossy black down the centre of the 

 breast and on the sides of the upper breast, which are glossed with greenish ; 

 thighs and under tail coverts ochraceous buff ; under wing coverts and axilla- 

 ries pure white, slightly washed with yellowish buff. 



The female is olive green above, tinged with ashy on the head, yellower and 

 more olive on the rump and upper tail coverts ; lesser and median wing 

 coverts like the back ; other coverts and quills dusky glossed with steel-green 

 and externally edged with olive ; tail dark brown, tipped with ashy brown on 

 the outer feathers ; cheeks and under surface of the body pale ochraceous buff. 

 No scarlet spot on foreneck. Bill black, base of lower mandible plumbeous or 

 blackish brown. 



