THE PLAIN-COLOURED FLOWERPECKER. 333 
This Flowerpecker is found abundantly in all descriptions of jungle ; but 
it is most partial to mango trees^ which are usually very much infested with 
insects. It also frequents trees covered with parasitic plants^ and not only 
feeds on insects^ but also swallows minute berries. It has a peculiar sharp 
note constantly repeated. 
This species appears to breed chiefly in March and April_, in which months 
I have found many nests. The nest is generally suspended from the ex- 
tremity of a branch high up and well concealed by drooping leaves. It is 
egg-shaped and only about four inches in height, and is constructed of the 
finest and whitest vegetable down, bound together by a few pieces of grass. 
The entrance-hole is placed about halfway between the top and bottom of 
the nest. The eggs^ which are either two or three in number, are pure 
white. 
315. DICTUM OLIVACEUM. 
THE PLAIN-COLOURED FLOWERPECKER. 
Dicaeum olivaceum, Wcdd. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p. 401 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 403, 
iv. p. 498 ; Tiveedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 302 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 195; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 90; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 171. 
Description.— -Male and female. The whole upper plumage olive-green, 
the rump rather brighter and the feathers of the head centred darker ; tail 
dark brown, the feathers faintly edged with olive-green ; wing-coverts 
brown, broadly edged with the colour of the back j wings dark brown, 
edged with olive-green rather brighter than the back ; sides of the face 
and the whole lower plumage dull oily greenish yellow with an ashy tinge. 
Legs and feet very dark plumbeous ; upper mandible and tip of lower 
mandible very dark brown or black ; rest of the lower mandible pale 
plumbeous; irides deep brown. {Davison.) 
Length 3*3 inches, tail I, wing 1"8, tarsus '45, bill from gape '45. The 
female is of the same size. 
This species is very closely allied to D. virescens, from the Andamans, 
which differs, however, in having the chin and throat albescent and the 
abdomen more yellow. This latter species was erroneously noted by Mr. 
Hume (S. F. ii. p. 473, vi. p. 196) as having been procured in Tenasserim. 
The Plain-coloured Flowerpecker was discovered by Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay ; and he procured specimens on the Tonghoo and Karin hills. Mr. 
Davison subsequently obtained it in Tenasserim at Pahpoon, Wimpong and 
Meetan, and Capt. Bingham at Moulmein. In Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay^s 
collection there is a specimen labelled as having come from Pegu. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula ; and it has been observed in the 
