THE YELLOW- VENTED FLOWEUPECKER. 335 
317. DICTUM CHRYSOERH(EUM. 
THE YELLOW- VENTED FLOWERPECKER. 
Dicaeum chrysorrhseum, Temm. PI. Col. 478. fig. 1 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 374; Salvad. 
Ucc. Born. p. 168 ; Wald. Ibis, 1872, p. 380 ; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 142 ; 
Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 663 ; Hume 8^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 195 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 90 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 170 ; Oates, 8. F. x. p. 198. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage and lesser 
wing-coverts yellowish green, brighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 
tail blackish ; greater wing-coverts dark brown on the inner webs and 
yellowish green on the outer ; quills very dark brown_, the secondaries 
and tertiaries broadly edged with yellowish green, the primaries very nar- 
rowly with whitish ; sides of the head and neck like the back ; cheeks 
white ; chin and throat white, with a greenish-brown mandibular streak 
between them and the cheeks ; lower plumage whitish, streaked with 
greenish brown ; under tail-coverts golden yellow. 
Iris orange-red ; eyelids pinkish ; upper mandible and tip of the lower 
black ; remainder of the lower mandible pale plumbeous ; legs dark 
plumbeous ; claws dark horn ; mouth flesh-colour. 
Length 4 inches, tail 1*2, wing 2*3, tarsus '6, bill from gape '5. The 
female is of the same size. 
The Yellow- vented Flowerpecker is sparingly distributed over the whole 
Province. Mr. Blyth states that it occurs in Arrakan. I procured it in 
Pegu only at Rangoon ; but Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay got it at Tonghoo. 
Mr. Davison found it throughout Tenasserim, except in the hilly portions ; 
and Capt. Bingham observed it in the Thoungyeen valley. 
It extends through the Indo-Burmese countries to the hill-tracts of 
Eastern Bengal ; and Dr. Jerdon states that it is found in Nipal. It ranges 
down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra, Java and Borneo ; and Dr. Tiraud 
gives it from Cochin China. 
This species has similar habits to Z>. cruentatum. Its nest has not yet 
been described. 
