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yellow and with a dusky patch near the edge of the wing. (Sharpe) Legs and 

 feet dusky or dark plumbeous in males ; dirty smalt blue in females ; upper 

 mandible and lower mandible to angle of gonys black ; rest plumbeous in males, 

 smalt blue in females ; iris dull red (Davison), dragon's blood red (Everett}. 



Length, 3*5 inches; wing 2*05 ; tail PI ; tarsus 0*55 ; culmeno*45. 



The female has the patch on the crown paler and more orange; iris 

 crimson. {Everett,) 



Hab. Southern Tenasserim, down the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and 

 Borneo. According to Davison, it is found in Tenasserim from its southern- 

 most point to about Mergui, or a little further north ; and he states it is rare. 



760. Prionochilus melanoxanthus (ffodgs.), Sdatcr, Ibis, 



5^74, p. 3, pi, i, fig. 3; Sharpe^ Cat. B. Br. Mus, x~-p. 71. Micrura melano- 

 xantha, Hodgs,, Icon, ined in Br, Mus. Passeres, pi. 38. Pachyglossa melano- 

 xantha, Hodgs., J. A. S. B. xii. p, 1009 ; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 378, No. 242 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1874, p. 455; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xliii., pt. 2, p. 156; 

 Hume, Str, F. 1879, P 90. The YELLOW-BELLIED FLOWER-PECKER. 



General color above dark slaty blackish with a slight gloss; least wing 

 coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts and quills blackish brown, 

 slightly edged with slate color externally ; tail feathers black, the two outermost 

 with a large spot of white near the end of the inner web ; lores, sides of the 

 face, ear coverts, cheeks, sides of the neck and of the throat black with a slaty 

 grey gloss which extends down the sides of the breast ; throat and foreneck 

 white, forming a longitudinal patch ; chest and remainder of under surface of 

 the body, including the flanks and under tail coverts, yellow ; axillaries and 

 under wing coverts white. (Sharpe.) Bill black ; legs dark plumbeous. 



The adult female is described by Mr. Sharpe as having a very dusky olive 

 green upper surface ; the lores dusky, a broad irregular fulvous stripe covering 

 the chin, middle of the throat and breast ; abdomen, vent and lower tail coverts 

 dull pale yellow ; outer tail feathers tipped white. 



Length. 3*5 inches ; wing 2*55 ; tail 1*5 ; tarsus 0'5 ; bill from forehead 0*4 3. 



Hab. Nepaul and Sikkim. Feeds on small insects and viscid berries. 

 Prionochilus vincent, a species at present known only from Ceylon, will pro- 

 bably be found in Southern India ; it differs from this species in being smaller 

 (2'i to 2'3 wing), and the sides of the breast being yellow like the flanks. 



761. Prionochilus SqualidUS (Bur ion), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. x. p, 73. Pipra squalida, Burton, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 113. Fringilla 

 agilis, Tick., J. A. S. B. ii. p. 578. Piprisoma agile, Blyth, J. -A. S. B. xiii. 

 P- 395 5 Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 376, No. 240 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. 

 p. 158; Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 430, pi. x. ; Hume, Str. F. \. p. 434 ; id., 

 viii. p. 90; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 579; Scully, Str. F. viii. p. 260; Gates, 

 Str. F. x. p. 198; id., B.Br. Burnt, i. p. 338, The THICK-BELLIED FLOWER- 

 PECKER. 



