DICTUM. 377 



upper wing-coverts dark brown, edged with olive-green ; tertiaries 

 the same ; primaries and secondaries brown, edged exteriorly with 

 greenish white. 



The young resemble the female. 



Legs and feet black ; bill and mouth black ; iris dark brown ; 

 eyelids plumbeous ; in the female the mouth is flesh-coloured. 



Length 3*5; tail 1*05; wing 1/9; tarsus "5; bill from gape *45. 



Distribution. The western and northern limits of this species 

 have not been determined with any great accuracy. It appears to 

 be common at Calcutta, and it has been obtained in the Khasi hills, 

 the Bhutan Doars, and the valley of Assam up to Dibrugarh. 

 South and east of these localities it has been found in Sylhet, 

 Cachar, and Manipur. It is common throughout the greater 

 portion of Burma, and extends down to the southernmost point of 

 Tenasserim. 



It is diffused through Southern China, Siam, and the Malay 

 peninsula down to Sumatra. 



Habits, $c. Breeds from March to May and probably later, con- 

 structing a small egg-shaped nest of vegetable down and grass, 

 which is attached to the tip of a branch at a considerable height 

 from the ground as a rule. The eggs, two or three in number, are 

 glossless white, and measure "56 by '4. 



913. Dicaeum trigonostigma. The Orange-bellied Floiver-peclcer. 



Certhia trigonostigma, Scop. Del. Fl. et Faun. Insub. ii, p. 91 (1786). 

 Dicseum trigonostigma (Scop.}, Blyth, Cat. p. 226 ; Iforsf. fy M. Cat. 



ii, p. 74 s ; Wahl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 545; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 341), pi. x, 



f. 2 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 194 ; Hume, Cat. no. 236 bis ; 



Oates, B. B. i, p. 336; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x, p. 38; Oatcs in 



Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 272. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head 

 and neck, scapulars, and wing-coverts dull blue ; back and rump 

 flaming orange-yellow, deeper on the back ; upper tail-coverts dull 

 blue; chin, throat, cheeks, and breast ashy grey; abdomen, sides 

 of the body, vent, and under tail-coverts flaming orange ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries whitish ; tail black ; wings black, edged 

 with dull blue. 



Female. Forehead, crown, nape, back, sides of the neck, and 

 scapulars olive-green ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellow, tinged 

 with orange at the tips of the feathers ; tail blackish ; coverts and 

 wings dark brown, narrowly edged with olive-green ; sides of the 

 head pale ashy; chin and throat sordid green ; breast and side-; <>l 

 the body ashy green ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow. 



The young resemble the female, but have the abdomen dull 

 yellow. 



Male : legs and feet horny black ; bill black ; iris brown. 

 Female: legs, feet, and claws greenish to dark plumbeous; upper 

 mandible from tip to nostrils and tip of the lower mandible 



