36 NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, ZOOLOGICAL RESCLTS OF THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 

 O" Chum Poo % 1914. 9 Koh Lak u /'2 1914. 



Total length = 78 mm. Total length = 80 mm. 



Wing = 48 » Wing = 46 » 



Tail =28,2 » Tail = 27,i » 



Culmen =9 » Culmen =9 » 



50. Dicseum ignipectus. Hodgs. The Fire-breasted Flovver-pecker. 



J Koon Tan 31 /s 1914. T = 80 mm.; W = 44,2 mm.; T = 25 mm.; C = 7,5 mm. — Iris: black. Bill: 

 black. Legs: black. 



Among the Flower-peckers collected in the hill -forests near Koon Tan in Northern 

 Siarn there is a fine male specimen of this beautiful species, which has hitherto not been 

 recorded from any part of Siarn, though it has been procured a few times in Burma and 

 Tenasserim always in high altitudes. 



My specimen was shot in a clumps of a parasitical plant in a mixed pine and 

 deciduous forest at about 1400 m. elevation. 



In the description of this species in the »Catalogue of the Birds in the British Mu- 

 seum » Vol. 10 p. 42 the thighs are said to be ochraceous buff but in my specimen the thighs 

 are dusky black with some of the feathers greyish white. The chin and the upper throat 

 are decidedly more buffy than the breast or the under tail-coverts; on the middle of the 

 rump there is a small tuft of olivaceous green feathers of the same colour as the lower flanks. 



51. Dicseum chrysorrhseum. Temm. — The Yellow-vented Flower-pecker. 



Dicceum chrysorrhccum : Muller p. 374; Robinson & Kloss p. 78; Gyldenstolpe II; Gyldenstolpe III p. 171; 

 Robinson III p. 756. 



<? Koh Lak 28 /n 1914. L = 95 mm.; W — 59,6 mm.; T = 30,5 mm.; C = 10 mm. 



The Yellow-vented Flower-pecker seems to be fairly rare though generally distrib- 

 uted över the whole country and has been obtained by me both in the Northern parts 

 of Siarn and in the Siamese Malaya. 



Outside Siamese Territory it has been found in Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, 

 Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 



52. Dicaeum minullum olivaceum. Wald. — The Plain-coloured Flower-Pecker. 



Dicceum olivaceum: Gyldenstolpe I p. 46. 



ef Koon Tan '/e 1914. L = 76 mm.; W = 45 mm.; T = 23,5 mm.; C = 8 mm. — $ Koon Tan 

 31 / 5 1914. L = 75 mm.; W = 44,6 mm.; T = 25 mm.; C = 9 mm. — £ Koon Tan 31 /5 1914. L = 80 mm.; 

 W = 46 mm.; T = 25 mm.; C = 9 mm. — J 1 Koon Tan * 2 / 9 1914. L = 78 mm.; W = 46 mm.; T = 24 

 mm.; C = 9 mm. — <j> Koon Tan 10 / 5 1914. L = 76 mm.; W = 42 mm.; T = 23 mm.; C = 8 mm. — 

 Irides: black. Bill: påle brown with black tip. Legs: plumbeous. 



