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MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



oicaeidae. 

 Flower-peckers. 



J With bright colours in the plumage 

 t Plumage dull throughout 



I Under parts streaked 

 [ Under parts not streaked 



f A single broad black median stripe, breast red 

 t Underside much striped, no red on breast 



j Abdomen white, no coronal patch 



(Abdomen yellow, a red or orange coronal patch 



[Eump and upper tail-coverts scarlet 



^1 Rump and upper tail-coverts orange or yellow 



( Rump and upper tail-coverts blue or green 



J Underside striped 

 \ Underside not striped 



j Underside brighter, deep buflf 

 t Underside duller, pale olive grey 



Dicaemns. ignipecttis <5 



D. c. chrrjsorrheum 

 PrionichUus in. maculatus 



Dicaeum cruentatum subspp. 



D. trigonostigma subspp. 



Frionichihis percussus ignicapillus 



Piprisoma m. modestum 



Dieaeum s. ignipectus $ 

 . . D. concolor olivacexim 



558. Dicaeum trigonostigma trigonostigma (Scop.). 



Certhia trigonostigma, Scopoli, Del. Flor. & Faun. Insubr. ii, 1786, 



p. 91 (China: substitute Malay Peninsula ; Hartert, Bull. Brit. 



Orn. Club, xxxviii, 1918, p. 73). Type locality here resti'icted to 



Malacca. 

 Dicaeum trigonostigma, E., p, 75 (Patani) ; F., p. 78 (Trang) ; H., 



p. 110 (Bandon) ; J., p. 189 (Terutau). 



Specimens from Patani agree with typical examples ; but 

 many birds from the southern part of Peninsular Siam are intermed- 

 iate between this race and the next, and on Terutau Island occur 

 birds which may be definitely allocated to one or the other races : 

 individual variation here is evidently greater than the geographical 

 one. 



We cannot recognise D. croceoventre Vig., of Sumatra, as dis- 

 tinct ; but the Javanese form, D. t fiaviclunis Hartert, is separable 

 by its paler yellow underparts, and the following race by its richer, 

 more reddish, orange colour. 



559. Dicaeum trigonostigma rubropygium Baker. 



Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xli, 1921, p. 108 (Mergui). 



Dicaeum trigonostigma, A., p. 194 (Tavoy to Bankasoon) ; B., p. 22 



(Junk Seylon) ; C. i, p. 336 (S. Tenasserim) ; L., p. 119 (Pulo 



Panjang, near Junk Seylon). 



A. Hume & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E- O. Grant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 1905 



B. Miiller, Die Ornis der Insel Salanga, 188'2. F. Eobinson and Kloss, Ibis, 1910-11. 



C> Gates, Birds Brit. Bm-mah, Vols, i & ii. 1883. G. Gairdner, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915. 

 D. Bonhoto, P.Z.S. 1901, Vol. i. H. Bobinson, Journ. F. M, 8. Museums, v, 1915. 



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