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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
island of Sumatra. It has also been procured in the Bhootan Doars along 
the foot of the Himalayas. 
D. mirmllum, Swinhoe, is a closely allied species, but is still smaller. It 
occurs in Hainan. 
316. DICiEUM EEYTHROEHYNCHUM. 
THE SMALL FLOWERPECKER. 
Certhia erythrorhjmchos, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 299. Nectar inia minima, Tick. 
J. A. S. B. ii. p. 577. Dicaeum minimum, Jerd. B. hid. i. p. 374 ; Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 155 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 574. Dicaeum erythrorhyn- 
cha, Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 143 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 196 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 90. 
Description. — Male and female. Upper plumage ashy olive, the feathers 
of the crown with dark centres ; tail dark brown ; wings and coverts brown, 
edged with the colour of the back ; sides of the head and lower plumage 
bulfy white. 
Bill pale fleshy, with a dusky tip ; legs leaden brown ; irides brown. • 
(Jerdon.) 
Length 3*2 inches, tail I, wing 1*8, tarsus *5, bill from gape '5. The 
female appears to be of about the same size. 
This species is very close to D. olivaceum, from which, however, it may 
be distinguished by the absence of any decided green tinge on the upper 
plumage and by its very pale lower plumage, with hardly any of the oily 
yellowish- green tinge of D. olivaceum. In this latter also the bill, even in 
skins, is always black; in D. erythrorhynchum it is flesh-coloured. 
The Small Elowerpecker is stated by Mr. Blyth to occur in Arrakan and 
also in Tenasserim, where he found it very common near Moulmein. No 
one has again met with the bird since Mr. Blyth made these remarks. 
It is spread over a considerable portion of India from Bengal down to 
Ceylon and westwards to Khandala. 
The nest, as described by Mr. Hume and others, is quite similar to that 
of D. cruentatum. 
