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and Karin hills and Pahpoon in Tenasserim. Captain Bingham got it at 

 Moulmein, and Captain Wardkw-Ramsay in Pegu. 



A closely-allied race> D. virestens, occurs in the Andaman Islands. It 

 differs in having the chin and throat albescent, and the abdomen more yellow, 

 contrastin with the throat, 



757. Dicseum erythrorhynchum (Lath), Efyth and 



B. Rurm. p, 143 ; Fairbk., Str. F. 1877, p. 399 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 

 1878, 196; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 90 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 57 ; Sutler, 

 /. c. p, 390; Oales, ]>. Br. Burm. i. p, 334* Cefthia erythrorhynchos, Lath*, 

 bid. Orn. i, p. 299. Dictum minimum, Blyth, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Sisf. 

 *x. p. 316; Tytler, op. til. xiii. p. 373 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 374; Jerd., B. 

 Ind. i. p. 374, No. 238; Jleavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 416; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 Ind. B, p. 155 ; Ball, Str, F. 1878, p. 208 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p, 574 ; Butler, 

 Cat. B. B. Pres. p-. 30. The SMALL FLOWER-PECKER. 



The whole upper plumage ashy olive, the feathers of the crown darker 

 centred ; tail dark brown ; wings and coverts brown, edged with ashy olive ; 

 lores, sides of the head and face pale ashy brown ; the ear coverts streaked with 

 narrow whitish shaft lines ; under surface of the body pale ashy with a buffish 

 tinge ; under tail coverts buffy white ; under wing coverts and axillaries white* 

 Bill pale fleshy with a dusky tip ; legs plumbeous ; iris brown. 



Length. $2 inches; wing I '8 ; tail i ; tarsus 0*5 ; culmen O'4. 



Hal. Ceylon, Lower Bengal and Central and Southern India as far as the 

 Eastern Himalayas and Assam, extending through Arracan to Moulmein in 

 Tenasserim. Recorded from Nepaul, Madras, Belgaum, Dacca, Rhandalla 

 in the Deccan, Poona and Bombay. Breeds in the Deccan and the Neil- 

 gherries ; nesting habits same as those of the other species of the genus, 

 Eggs, 23, pure white. 



Gen, PrionocMlUS, StrickL 



Bill stout and finch-like, occasionally with tomical serrations, broader than 

 high at nostrils; gape without wattles; tail short, not exceeding the tip of the 

 wing by as much as the length of the tarsus ; wing with a distinct bastard 

 primary ; nostrils only a narrow slit ; tarsus large ; inner toe shorter than the 

 outer. 



758. Prionochilus ignicapillus (Eyton), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1883, 



p. 580; id,, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 65. Dicseum ignicapillum, Eyton, 

 P. Z. S. 1839, P- IO 5' Prionochilus percussus (non. Temm.), Strickl., P. Z. S. 

 1841, p. 29 ; Blyth, J. A, S. B. xiv. pp. 558, 559 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 335 ; 

 Cab. Mus. Hem. Th. i. p. H2; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 56, 90; Gates, B. 

 Br. Burm. i. p, 339. The CRIMSON-BREASTED FLOWER-PECKER. 



Adult male. Above slaty blue, the rump and upper tail coverts a little 

 clearer blue ; wing coverts like the back ; bastard wing, primary coverts and 

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