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the height of its nest above the water to the seasonal flood- 

 level of the streams over which the nest is suspended. 



Seventeen species of Huniniing Bird are found in Trinidad, 

 of which Mr. Williams had discovered and studied ten to a 

 dozen, including Plicetltornis giiyi Less, and Glaucis hirsutus 

 (Gm.). 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker described the following new 

 subspecies of Flower-peckers : — 



(1) Dicasum chrysorrhceum intensum, subsp. nov. 



Differs from D. c. cJirysorrha^um, type-locality Java, in 

 having the upper parts an intense golden-green, much 

 brighter and more yellow than in the typical bird. Below, 

 the white is suffused with yellow or buff-yellow, except on 

 chin and throat, and the streaks are not so heavy or black. 

 Size as in I), c. chrysorrlioium. 



Type unsexed (S), No. 97.12.10.942 in British Museum. 

 Collected by Biddulpli, Nov. 1873. 



Type-localittj. Sikkim. 



Distribution. Sikkim to Assam, North and East of Brah- 

 mapootra. 



There appear to be three well-marked races of this Flower- 

 pecker : 



(i.) D. <■. chrysorrhomm. Malay Pen., south of 10° lat., 

 Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, 

 (ii.) I), c. chrysocJilore. Malay Pen., noi'th of 10°, and 

 the whole of Burma and Siam. 



This race is intermediate between chrysor- 

 rhceum and intensum, but nearer the former. 

 (iii.) D. c. intensum. As described. 



(2) Dicaeum trigonostigma rubropygium, subsp. nov. 



Differs from D. t. trigonostigma in having the rump orange- 

 flame colour, almost concolorous with the back, instead 

 of orange-yellow contrasting with the back. The throat is 

 distinctly paler and the underparts are generally more richly 

 coloured. Typical trigonostigma is exactly halfway in colour 

 between ruhropygivm and Y{'a.xievi's,flavidvnis. 



Size as in JK t. triqonostiqma. 



