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of the neck, descending on to the sides of the breast, wings, and 

 tail, black, glossed with violet-blue, mostly on the sides of the 

 neck and shoulders; beneath, pale fulvous, becoming olivaceous- 

 ashy on the flanks. 



Female — Above dull ashy-olive, with some of the feathers of the 

 upper tail-coverts crimson ; wings and tail brown-black; beneath 

 fulvous, paler than in the male. Length 3f inches ; wing 2 ; tail I ; 

 bill at front f to y'^. 



This pretty little Flower-pecker is only found, within our pro- 

 vince, in the lower part of the South-east Himalayas, and in some 

 parts of Lower Bengal. It is not rare in the vicinity of 

 Calcutta. It is, however, only an outlier here, its chief location 

 being Assam, Burmah, and Malayana. 



237. Dicaeum chrysorhseum, Temm. 



Fl. Col., 478, 1— Blyth, Cat. 1373— Hoesf., Cat. 1092— D. 

 chrysochlorc, Blyth, J. A. S., XIL, 1009. 



The Yellow-vented Flower-pecker. 



Descr. — Above olive-green, slightly more yellowish on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; quills. and tail blackish, the former edged 

 albescent ; beneath white, tinged yellowish on the breast and 

 abdomen, and the under tail-coverts bright saffron-yellow ; two 

 stripes from the base of the lower mandible down the sides of the 

 neck, and some longitudinal streaks on the breast and abdomen, 

 dusky-green. 



Length 3|; wing 2^ ; tail 1^; bill at front | ; tarsus h- 

 This species has been found, though very rarelj'', in Nepal. It 

 is more common in Arakan and Tenasserim, and extends to 

 Malacca. I have only, myself, seen it at Moulmein. 



238. Dicaeum minimum, Tickell. 



Nectarinia, apud Tickell, J. A. S., II., 577 — Blyth, Cat. 1375 

 — HoKSF., Cat. 1091 — C. erythrorhyncha, Latham— Jerdon, 2nd 

 Suppl., Cat. 237 bis— Certhia Tickellife, Blyth, J. A. S., XI., 

 889 — Myzanthe inoruata, Hodgson — Suugti-pro-plio, Lcpch. 



