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Females.—Length, 4°7 to 4:9; expanse, 6°5 to 6°8; tail, 
1:2 to 1-4; wing, 2:0 to 2°05; tarsus, 0°58; bill from gape, 
1:0; weight, 0°25 oz. 
In both sexes the bill, lees, feet, and claws are black ; the 
irides deep brown. 
[238.—Diczeum erythrorhynchus, Lath. Tickell’s 
Flower-pecker, 
This occurs about the bases of the Nilghiris. I have had 
a specimen from below Burliar, and another from the Wynaad.— 
A. O. H.] Ihave shot it at Goodalore—W. D. 
239.—Diceum concolor, Jerd. The Nilghiri Flower- 
pecker, 
This species is most abundant on the plateau of the 
Nilghiris ; but it also occurs commonly all over the slopes, 
and through the Wynaad. 
Jerdon’s statement (B. of I., Vol. 1., p. 375) about the food 
of this species is not quite correct. Though it does sip the 
nectar of flowers, and occasionally, I dare say, may eat insects, 
its principal food certainly consists of berries. 
The sexes do not differ in size. The following are the dimen- 
sions of six specimens measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 3:5 to 3:7; expanse, 6:1 to 6:6; tail, 1:0 to 1:15; 
wing, 1°9 to 1:95; tarsus, 0°5 to 0°55; bill from gape, 0°45 to 
0:5; weight, 0:13 to 0:180z. Irides dark brown; lower 
mandible and sides of upper mandible towards base pale 
leaden blue; rest of upper mandible blackish; legs, feet, and 
claws dark plumbeous. 
250.—Sitta castaneiventris, Frankl. The Chesnut- 
bellied Nuthatch. 
This species does not apparently inhabit the hills or their 
slopes, but it occurs sparingly in the Wynaad and Mysore. 
I found it most abundant in the tract of thinly-timbered 
country in Mysore lying between Rampore on the borders 
of the Wynaad and the foot of the Nilghiris. 
The following are dimensions and colors of soft parts recorded 
in the flesh :-— 
Length, 5:1 to 5:5; expanse, 9°5; tail, 1:5 to 1:7; wing, 
3:0 to 3°15; tarsus, 0°65 to 0°7; bill from gape, 0°8 to 0°82; 
weight, 0°5 to 0°55 oz. Legs and feet dark greenish plum- 
beous; base of lower mandible, and base of upper mandible 
. forehead, pale plumbeous; rest of bill black; irides dark 
rown. 
