1870.] A Contribution to Majayan Ornithology. 303 



green with yellowish white tips ; lateral feathers of the vent 

 greatly lengthened. Wing 2-jp ; tail If" ; bill at front 1 T 3 / ; from 

 gape If* ; tarsus f". 



This species is readily distinguished from the last by its stout 

 and short bill ; it is rare about Malacca and in the Wellesley Pro- 

 vince, and I only once saw it at Penang. 



Fam. DICJEIDM. 



42. DlCLEUM TRI0KWOSTIGMA, S C O p. 



B 1 y t h, Cat. p. 226; Latham, In. Ornith., I, p. 299. 



$ . Dark, sometimes greyish, blue above and on the sides of the 

 head and neck, as well as on the scapulars and wing coverts of which 

 the anterior are edged with green ; wings black, the feathers edged 

 with greenish blue on the outer webs, shoulder edge of wing white ; 

 back bright golden orange, rump greenish yellow, longer upper 

 tail coverts green, tail black, like the wings, with a faint greenish 

 lustre ; chin and throat cinerous white, breast and vent bright 

 orange yellow, becoming pure yellow on the lower tail coverts ; 

 wing If ; tail f ; bill at front f" ; from gape i" ; tarsus jf. 



?. Above dark greenish, wings and tail blackish, rump and upper 

 tail coverts yellow, chin and throat greenish grey, rest of lower 

 parts orange yellow ; size same as that of the male. 



Apparently not common in the Wellesley Province and about 

 Malacca. 



43. Dictum chrysoremeum, T e m m. 

 PI. Col. 478; Jerdon, B. Ind. I, p. 374. 



Specimens from the Wellesley Province are all a little larger 

 than the measurements given by J e r d o n from Indian specimens, 

 and there is no distinct yellow tinge on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts ; wing 2£ // ; tail l T 3 g-" ; bill at front f ; from gape J" ; tarsus 

 I*. The Malay specimens agree best with Temminck's figure 

 of a Javanese bird, which has the throat whitish and the rest of 

 the plumage below with a very slight greenish tinge. 



44. Dkleum cruentatum, Linn. 



D. coccineum, Scop., Gould, B. Asia, pt. VI ; Jerdon, B. 

 Ind. I, p. 373. 



