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be N. Hasseltii, Tem., and is common also at Malacca. It is the 

 Certhia sperata, var., of Raffles's list. 



Nect. (v. Anthreptes) frontalis, nobis. Differs from the female of 

 N. lepida (v. javanica, Horsf.,) in having the bill rather shorter; the up- 

 per parts of a richer, somewhat darker, and more aureous, olive-green ; 

 and the lower parts greenish-grey, without any yellow : the throat, and 

 cheeks especially, inclining to be cinereous : the frontal feathers alone 

 are scale-like, and of a brilliant steel-green. Length about five inches, 

 of wing two and three-eighths, and tail two and one-eighth ; bill to gape 

 three-quarters of an inch ; and tarse nine- sixteenths. From Singapore. 



Dicceum chrysochlorum, nobis, p. 1009, extends its range southward 

 to Malacca. 



D. erythronotum, p. 983, bears the prior name of cruentatum, (L.)* 



D. Tickellice, nobis, is the Certhia erythrorhyncha, Lath., a name, 

 however, which is too inaccurate to be retained. Young birds, when 

 they leave the nest, have the beak of a flesh-red colour, except just 

 the tip ; and a specimen in this state is figured among Buchanan's 

 drawings, with the reddish colour of the bill exaggerated ; and it was 

 probably upon a copy of this very drawing that Latham founded the 

 species. Being the Nectarinia minima of Tickell (not of Sykes), it 

 might therefore be termed Dicceum minimum, (Tickell). The range 

 of the species extends into Tipperah and Arracan. 



D. ignicapillum of Eyton is the Prionochilus percussus, (Tem.) 

 Strickland : and in form and colouring it bears much the same relation- 

 ship to Piprisoma agilis, (Tickell) nobis, XIII, 395, that the bright- 

 coloured Malayan Diccea do to the dull-coloured species which alone 

 inhabit the peninsula of India. To this genus Prionochilus, Str., 

 P. Z. S. 1841, p. 29, are referred the various Malayan species which 

 M. Temrainck has strangely classed in Pardalotus^ as his P. thoracicus 

 and P. maculatus, in addition to the percussus: and the so-called Par- 

 dalotus pipra of Lesson's Traite (stated to be Himalayan), upon which 

 the latter naturalist has since founded his Idopleura, turns out to be 



* Dr. Horsfield informs me, in epistold, that the Javanese species which he refer- 

 red to cruentatum is distinct from the Bengal one, or true cruentatum. It is probably, 

 therefore, one the Society has just received from Java, which has the head, neck, 

 throat, breast, whole inter-scapularies, rump, and upper tail-coverts, scarlet, wings and 

 fail blue-black, and lower parts pale ashy, except the under tail-coverts which are 

 white. D. cruentatum is common at Malacca. 



