Flower-peckers 



8o 3 



FIG 223. Flower-peckers: 1-2. Dicceum celebicum; 3. D. sangirense; 4. D. nehrkorni. 



by having the terminal third of both mandibles finely and evenly serrated, and 

 from these they may be separated by the shape of the bill, this being short and 

 triangular in the Flower-peckers and long and cylindrical in the Sun-birds. 

 These birds are so small mainly between three and four inches in length 

 that the serrations on the bill can usually only be detected with a lens, but so 

 far as known they are always present. They have moderately short wings, 

 some genera possessing nine and others ten primaries, and rather short tails of 



