194 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



236 bis.— Dicaeum trigonostigma, Scop. (18). 



{Karen Mils at 3,000 feet, Rama.) Moulmein; Amherst j Uskeetherrpone ; 

 Mergui; Bopyin; Bankasoon. 



Only observed in Tenasserim proper, southwards of Moul- 

 mein, but re-appearing in the Karen hills in the extreme north. 



[To the north of Mergui this species is but seldom met with, 

 but at Mergui and to the south of this place to the Pakchan it 

 is by no means uncommon. Amherst was the most northerly 

 point in Tenasserim at which I procured it. 



In its habits, the localities it frequents, &c, it quite resembles 

 the more common D. cruentalum. — W. D.] 



The following are dimension s, &c, of this species recorded in 

 the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 3-45 to 3*75 ; expanse, 6 to 6-5; tail from 

 vent, 0*82 to 1-0; wing, 1*76 to 2-05; tarsus, 0*5 to 0*52 ; bill 

 from gape, 0-49 to 0-55 ; weight, 0'23 to 0-28 oz. 



Female. — Length, 3"62; expanse, 6-12; tail from vent, 1*0 ; 

 wing, 1-82; tarsus, 0*5 ; bill from gape, 0"55 ; weight,? 05 oz. 



The males have the legs and feet horny black ; the bill black ; 

 irides brown. 



The females have the legs, feet, and claws greenish to dark 

 plumbeous; the upper mandible from tip to nostril, and tip of 

 lower mandible, blackish horny ; base of upper mandible reddish 

 brown; lower mandible (except the tip) and gape pale orange 

 brown to orange vermilion; irides grey to dark brown. 



The male has a broad line through the lores dusky blackish ; 

 forehead, crown, occiput, nape, and a small portion of the upper 

 back, upper portion of sides of the neck, scapulars and wing- 

 coverts, dull leaden blue, with a faint glossy sheen ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts in some duskier, in some rather paler ; chin, throat, 

 extreme upper portion of breast and lower half of sides of the neck 

 very pale clear grey; breast, abdomen and rest of lower parts 

 bright orange yellow, more fiery on the breast and upper abdo- 

 men ; wing-lining and axillaries pure white ; inter scapulary re- 

 o-ion, where not blue, and part of middle of the back, flame 

 colored ; rest of back and upper tail-coverts, more or less fiery 

 orange ; quills hair brown, edged with the same color as the 

 coverts; tail blackish brown, margined similarly ; the longest 

 of the upper tail-coverts are also generally of this same leaden 

 or dark slaty blue. 



The female has the crown, occiput, nape, mantle, lores, cheeks, 

 ear-coverts and upper part of sides of the neck, dull olive green, 

 more or less greyish in some specimens, with generally a certain 

 ferruginous orange tinge in the middle of the back ; the rump is 

 yellow, slightly orange, slightly pencilled with olivaceous, and all 

 but the longest upper tail-coverts a decided orange. 



