PROMEROPIM. 



the inner, and united at the base; the hind toe long and strong; the claws moderate, compressed, 

 and curved. 



The species of this genus are found in India, its ai'chipelago, and Australia. They are generally seen in pairs or in 

 parties of four to five actively searching the small branches of high trees or bushes, and are continually hopping or 

 flitting from branch to branch during the heat of the day while examining them and the leaves for the insects that lurk 

 there, and upon which they feed. Mr. Packman informs me that these birds are particularly fond of the berries of a 

 species of Loranthus which is common in the forests of Tenasserim. Although the berries are large they swallow them 

 whole, and receive much nourishment from their glutinous nature, while the seed itself passing through the alimentary 

 canal whole, contributes in no small degree in this way to the propagation of the parasitical plant which kills every tree 

 it grows upon. The nest is suspended from a drooping twig with large leaves ; the latter form a shelter, and near the 

 top is a small opening for an entrance. It is composed chiefly of the seed-vessels of a syngenesious flower, held 

 together by fibres of bark and other materials in a hemispherical form. The eggs are generally two. 



1. D. hirundinaceum (Lath.) Lewin, N. H. Birds, pi. 7. — 

 Sylvia rubricollis Lath. ; Pipra gularis Lath. ; P. Desmarestii 

 Leach ; Dicaeum pardalotus Cuv. ; D. atrogaster Less. ; D. san- 

 guineum Swains. Gould, B. of Austr. pi. ., Mag. de Zool. 1833. 

 Ois. t. 14.. 



2. U. celebicum Mull. Verh. p. 162. — Dicieum Leclancherii 

 Lafr. 



3. D. Maclotii Temm. PL col. 



4. D. sanguinolentum Temm. PI. enl. 478. f. 2. 



5. D. papuense (Lath.) PI. enl. 707- f. 2. 



6. D. peetorale Mull. Verh. &c. p. 162. 



7. D. erythrothorax Less. Voy. de la Coqu. Ois. t. 30. f. 1, 2. 



8. D. trigonostigma (Scop.) Sonn. Voy. Ind. t. 117. f. 2. — Cer- 

 thia cantillans Lath. ; Dieamm croceoventer Vigors, Temm. PI. col. 

 478. f. 3. 



9. D. coccineum (Scop.). — Certhia erythronota {Lath.), Sonn. 

 Voy. Ind. t. 117. f. 1., Vieill. Ois. dor. t. 35. ; Certhia cruentata 

 Linn. Edw. Birds, pi. 81. ; Dicsum rubricapillum Less.; Nec- 

 tarinia ignita Begbie. 



10. rubescens Vieill. Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. t. 136. — Nectarinia 

 rubrocana Temm. ; Certhia erythropygia Lath. 



11. D. rubrum (Gmel.). — Dicaeum atriceps Vieill.; D. scarla- 

 tinum Schintz. 



12. D. chrysorrhceum Temm. PI. col. 478. f. 1. 



13. D. concolor Jerd. Madr. Journ. Lit. & Sci. 1840, p. 227. — 

 Nectarinia minima Tick. ; Dicreum Tickellii Myth. 



14. D. griseum (Scop.) Sonn. Voy. t. 117- f. 3. — Certhia tseniata 

 Shaw ; Dicaeum flaviceps Vieill. 



15. D. Maugei Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 303. 



16. D. pygmceum Kittl. Mem. &c. de St. Petersb. 1835, t. 2. 



17. D. cinereum Kittl. Kupf. Vog. Mem. &c. St. Petersb. 1835, 

 t. 5. 



18. D. (?) aterrimum Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 303. 



19. D. nigrum (Less.) Cent, de Zool. t. 30. 



20. D. chrysochlore Blyth, Journ. A. S. B. 1843, p. 1009. 



21. D. ignipectus (Hodgs.) Journ. A. S. B. 1843, p. 983. — 

 Myzanthe inornata Hodgs. ; Type of Myzanthe Hodgs. (1842). 



22. D. , Voy. au Pole Sud. Ois. t. 22. f. 4. 



23. D. percussum (Temm.) PI. col. 39*. f. 2. — Dicaeum igni- 

 capillum Eyton ; Type of Prionochilus Strickl. (1841). 



24. D. thoracicum (Temm.) PI. col. 600. f. 1, 2. 



25. D. maculatum (Temm.) PI. col. 600. f. 3. 



26. D. obsoletum (Mull. & Sch.) Verh. Nat. Gesch. p. 174. 



27. D. melanoxanthum (Hodgs.) Journ. A. S. B. 1843, p. 1009, 

 1010. ; Type of Pachyglossus Hodgs. (1842). 



June, 1847. 



