DICTUM. 247 



Length. yn to 3-6 inches ; wing 175 to 1-9; tail I; tarsus 0-5 to O'6 j 

 culmen 0*4. 



Hob. The Himalayas to the hills of N.-E. Bengal, and externally to the Ka- 

 renne hills in Burmah at an elevation of 4,000 feet, and Mooleyit in Tenasserim, 

 also occurring in the province of Fokien in China. Recorded from near Simla, 

 Darjeeling, Nepaul and Bhootan. Jerdon says it is common in Sikkim from 

 2,000 to 6,000 feet, and feeds on small insects and flower buds. Nests 

 pendulous; eggs white, 2 3 in number. According to Mr. R, Thompson 

 (Hume), it breeds regularly at Nynee Tal during June and July. It constructs a 

 pendant nest which it attaches to a bare bough of some large tree In shape 

 the nest is like a purse opening at the side towards its upper extremity, and the 

 materials it is made of is said to be the pubescent covering of the stems of 

 various species of Loranthus or mistletoes. 



754. Dicaeum chrysorrhaeum, Temm. t Pi. Col. 478, fig. i ; 



Strickl., P. Z. S. 1846, p. 100 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 403 ; Jerd., B. Ind. i. 

 p. 374, No. 237; Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 168 ; Wald., Ibis, 1872, p. 380; 

 Blythand Wald., B. Burnt, p. 142; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 195; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 90 ; Ringham, Sir. F. ix. p. 1 70 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. 

 p. 335 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 44, The YELLOW-VENTED FLOWER- 

 PECKER. 



The whole upper plumage and lesser wing coverts yellowish olive, brighter 

 on the rump and upper tail coverts ; bastard wing and primary coverts, also 

 the quills and tail feathers, blackish brown, edged with yellowish olive ; crown 

 of the head, sides of the face, and ear coverts yellowish olive ; cheeks white ; 

 chin and throat white with a greenish brown mandibular streak between them 

 and the cheeks ; under surface of the body creamy white, streaked with 

 greenish brown ; under wing coverts and axillaries white ; edge of the wing 

 dusky ; under tail coverts golden yellow. Upper mandible and tip of the 

 lower black ; remainder of the lower mandible pale plumbeous ; legs dark 

 plumbeous ; iris crimson. 



Length. 3-9 to 4 inches ; wing 2'3 to 2-35 ; tail 1*2 ; tarsus o'6; culmen 

 0-45- 



Hal). Eastern Himalayas, thence through Burmah and the Malay Peninsula 

 to Java, Sumatra and Borneo. According to Dr. Jerdon it is found in Nepaul 

 and the hill tracts of Eastern Bengal. In Burmah, Gates says, it is sparingly 

 distributed over the whole province. It is more common in Arracan and 

 Tenasserim. 



755. DiCaeum COnCOlor, Jerd., Madr. Journ. xi. p. 227 ; id., Ill 

 Ind. Orn. pi. 39 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 403 ; Reichb., Handblt. Scamorice, 

 p. 241 ; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 375, No. 239; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. 

 p. 156; Morgan, Ibis, 1875, p. 316; Fairbk., Sir. F. 1876, pp. 256, 265; 

 l8 77> P- 399; Hume, Str. F. 1879^.90; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. 

 p. 45. The NEILGHERRY FLOWER-PECKER. 



