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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
318. DICTUM TEIGONOSTIGMA. 
THE ORANGE-BELLIED FLOWERPECKER. 
Certhia trigonostigma, Scop. Del. Faun, et Flor. Insuh. ii. p. 91. Certhia can- 
tillans, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 299. Dicaeum croceoventre, Vigors, Mem. 
Raffl. p. 673 5 Mottl. 8f Dillw. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lah. p, 17. Dicaeum trigono- 
stigma, Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 545 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xxxix. pt. ii. p. 303; 
Wald. Ihis, 1872, p. 380 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 166 Bl. B. Burm. p. 142 ; 
Wald. Ibis, 1876, p. 349, pi. x. %. 2; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 194; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 90 ; Bingham, S. F. viii. p. 195. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown^ nape, sides of tlie head and of the 
neck^ scapulars and wing-coverts dull blue ; back and rump flaming orange- 
yellow, deeper on the back ; upper tail-coverts dull blue ; chin, throat, 
cheeks and breast ashy grey ; abdomen, sides of the body, vent and under 
tail-coverts flaming orange ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish ; tail 
black; wings black, edged with the colour of the head and coverts. 
The female has the forehead, crown, nape, back, sides of the neck and 
scapulars olive-green ; the rump and upper tail-coverts yellow, tinged with 
orange at the tips of the feathers ; tail dark brown or blackish ; coverts 
and wings dark brown, narrowly edged with olive-green ; sides of the head 
rather ashy ; chin and throat sordid green ; breast and sides of the body 
ashy green ; abdomen, vent and under tail- coverts bright yellow. Some 
females have an appreciable tinge of blue on the head and wings and fre- 
quently a tinge of yellow on the back. 
Young males are like the female, but with an orange tinge on the yellow 
of the lower plumage. 
Male : legs and feet horny black ; the bill black ; irides brown. Female : 
legs, feet and claws greenish to dark plumbeous ; the upper mandible, 
from tip to nostril, and tip of lower mandible blackish horny ; base of 
upper mandible reddish brown ; lower mandible (except the tip) and 
gape pale orange-brown to orange- vermilion ; irides grey to dark brown. 
[Davison.) 
Length 3-6 inches, tail 1, wing 1'9, tarsus '5, bill from gape '55. The 
female is of the same size. 
The Orange-bellied Flowerpecker is a somewhat rare species in Burmah, 
except in the southern parts of Tenasserim. Mr. Blyth states that it occurs 
in Arrakan. In Pegu I have only once met with it, and that was near 
Kyeikpadein ; but Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay obtained it in the Karin hills. 
Mr. Davison found it in Tenasserim rare north of Mergui, but not un- 
common south of that town. 
It ranges down the Malay peninsula and is found in Sumatra, Java and 
Borneo. According to Dr. Tiraud it is not rare in Cochin China. 
