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CATALOGUE. 
sugar and water, which it sucked up like a Humming-bird ; it was 
very fond of bathing in a large shell full of water placed in its cage." 
— (Motley and Dilwj n's JN'at. Hist, of Labuan.) 
1091. DICTUM MINIMUM, Tickell Sp. 
Nectarinia minima, Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. II. p. 577 
(1836). 
Dicaeum minimum, Blyth, Ann. Nat. Sist. XX. p. 316 ; 
Catal. B. Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 227. Bonap., 
a G. Av. p. 403. Ti/tler, Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII. 
n. s.p. 373. 
Certhia erythrorhyncha,* LatJiam, Ind. Orn. I. p. 299 ; 
Gen. mst. ofB. lY.p. 252. 
Dicseum erythrorhynchum, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. XIII. 
Dicseum Tickelli^e, Blyth, J. A. 8. Beng. XI. p. 889 ; 
XII. p. 983 ; XIII. p. 393 ; XIY. p. 558 ; Ann. 
N. H. XII. p. 167. Strickland, Ann. N. H. XIII. 
p. 38. 
Myzanthe (Micrura) inornata, J3.odgson, Gray's Zool. 
Misc. (1844), p. 82 ; Catal. B. ofNep.p. 60. 
A. Adult. Bengal. {D. TicMliw, Blyth.) From the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
h. c. d. e. Nepal. {M. inornata, Hodgs.) Presented by 
B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
/. g. h. Dacca. Presented by Captain R. C. Tytler. 
i. Drawing. From F. (Buch.) Hamilton's Collection. 
" Ashy-olive above, paler beneath ; wings and tail darker ; bill pale 
flesh-colour, with dusky tip ; legs leaden-brown ; ii'ides dark. Sexes 
alike. Length 3 in. to 3|^ in., wings If in. to 1|- in., tail ^ in., biU to 
forehead f in., and tarse -^-^ in. Young birds, when they leave the 
nest, have the beak flesh-red colour, except just the tip." 
Inhabits India generally, Ceylon, and Arracan. Common in Lower 
Bengal. 
Capt. E. C. Tytler states that it is " very abundant at Barrackpore, 
but at all times difficult to obtain, owing to their extreme minuteness ; 
besides which, they keep often in the upper branches of high 
trees." 
* This name is too inaccurate to be retained. 
