Birds of Celebes; Dicaeidae. 
447 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (C 14878) cf Djampea (Ev.) 
54 
27 
13 
6.5 
b. (C 14877) Q Djampea (Ev.) 
49 
27 
12.5 
6 
Distribution. Djampea and Saleyer (Everett 2); ? Macassar District, South Celebes (Teijs- 
mann 1). 
This species, with D. mackloti M. & S. of Timor and D. salvadorii Meyer of 
Babbar, forms a section of the genus Dicaetim in which the rump and upper 
tail-coverts are scarlet. Mr. Bvittikofer remarks that D. mackloti may be con- 
sidered its nearest ally, from which it differs in its smaller size and in the 
upper surface having a steel-blue instead of a well pronounced purplish gloss. 
D. salvadorii is even larger than D. mackloti (cf. Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 38). 
Mr. Hartert finds the principal differences from D. mackloti to be: “the colour 
of throat, which is lighter, more vermilion, and extends farther down on the 
breast, and the greatly diminished dark surroundings of the red throat. They 
are broad and deep black in D. mackloti, while they are blackish grey and narrow 
in T>. splendidum. The colour of the back varies, and is not constantly different 
in the two species”. 
The type of the species was included in the collections of the botanist 
Teij smann, and is indicated as having come from the District of Macassar. 
The discovery of the bird in Djampea and Saleyer by Everett renders it more 
probable that Teijsmann’s specimen really came from the latter island which 
was visited by the traveller from Nov. 16. to Dec. 12., 1877 (Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.Ind. 
xxxvm, 111—119). 
* 175. DICAEUM NEHRKORNI W.Blas. 
Scarlet-capped Flower-pecker. 
Plate XXV. 
Dicaeum nehrkorni (1) W.Blas., “Braunscliweigische Anzeigen” (newspaper!), 3. Marz, 1806; 
(2) Schalow, J. f. 0. 1886, 399; (3) Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 206; (4) M. & Wg.' 
Abb. Mus. Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 10; (5) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 151; (6) id., 
ib. 1897, 155. 
Description. Hartert 5. 
Adult male. A cap extending from forebead to occiput flame-scarlet, narrowly bordered 
with black; rump scarlet fike tbe crown; sides of bead and neck sooty brown, 
passing into black glossed mtb violet on tbe mantle, scapulars, wing-coverts, 
tail and upper tail-coverts; quills dusky; tbroat and ear-coverts drab; breast 
smoky brown, varied with wbitisb, and with about three feathers in it tipped with 
flame-scarlet; sides and flanks lighter brown than the breast and enclosing a narrow 
space of white down tbe middle of tbe abdomen; under wing- and tail-coverts 
white; metacarpal edge dark brown, with light tips to the feathers. Wing 46 mm; 
tail 23; tarsus 12; bill from feathers of forehead 9 (type, (y’, Burukan, Minahassa 
6. VIH. 84; Platen in Mus. Nehrkorn, Nr. 976). 
Iris brown; bill and feet black (Platen). 
