580 MR. R. B, SHARPS ON THE DIC^EID^. [DeC. 4, 



hoary white with brown bases to the feathers ; sides of neck hke the 

 back; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure white, 

 the sides of the body ashy ; sides of upper breast brown, with 

 hoary whitish edges to the feathers ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts white ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of 

 the inner web ; " bill black ; feet black ; iris grey " {Richards). Total 

 length 3*5 inches, culmen 0"45, wing 2"3, tail I "15, tarsus 055. 

 (Mus. H. B. Tristram.) 



5. Dictum schistaceum, Tweedd. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 

 XX. p. .537 (1877). 



The type of this species, lent to me by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, 

 appears to me to be a young bird of D. rubi-iventer. Less. The 

 pale colour of the bill is characteristic of immaturity in this group 

 of Flower-peckers ; and in the British Museum there are some young 

 specimens of the allied 1), hcBmatostichim which also differ from the 

 adult in the absence of the red colour on the underparts and in 

 being of the slaty grey above. 



6. Dictum inornatum. 



Mt/zanthe inornata, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82. 



This is a species distinct from Mysanthe ignipectus of Hodgson, 

 with which recent authors have united it. It belongs to the dull- 

 coloured section of the genus, containing D. concolor and its allies. 

 It is doubtless to this species that the young male recorded by Dr. 

 Scully from Nepal (Str. F. 1879, p. 261) really belongs, as he had 

 doubts as to its being referable to D. ignipectus. I have examined 

 the types of D. olivaceum, Walden, from the Karen Hills, in Capt. 

 Wardlaw Eamsay's collection, and find that they also belong to 

 JD. inornatum (Hodgs.). 



7. Dictum modestum, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 18/8, p. 380. 



This species appears to me to be the same as D. everetti, Tweedd., 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 537 (1877). 



8. Prionochilus percussus, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 394. fig. 2 

 (1826). 



I have recently examined the type of P. percussus in the Leiden 

 Museum, and find that it is distinct from the bird usually so called 

 in collections from Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo. The Javan 

 bird, the true P. percussus, has the throat white, whereas the 

 specimens from other above-named localities have a yellow throat, 

 and must bear the name of P. iffnicapillus (Eyton). 



