PASSERES. 
Series B. Tanagroid Passeees. 
Wing with ^primaries, the of which is fully developed and very long. 
{Cf Wallace, Ibis, 1874, p. 410.) 
Earn. DIC^ID^. 
Bill variable, moderately short and wide at the base ; curved and compressed in some, in 
others very thick and triangular, with the lower mandible inflated at the gonys. Wings pointed, 
with the 1st quill long. I’ail of 12 feathers, usually very short, always less than the wings. Legs 
and feet strong. Tarsus scaled. 
Of small size and of arboreal and mostly gregarious habit. 
Genus DICiEUM. 
Bill high and wide at the base, suddenly compressed beyond the nostrils, the upper mandible 
curved throughout, tip entire and very acute; gonys straight. Nostrils basal, oval, and placed 
close beneath the culmen. Wings with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quills nearly equal and longest. 
Tail very short and even at the tip. Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, and shielded 
with broad transverse scales ; outer toe slightly longer than the inner ; hind toe and claw large. 
DICJ]UM MINIMUM. 
(TICKELL’S FLOWEEPECKEE.) 
isectarinia minima, Tickell, J. A. S. B, 1833, ii. p. 577. 
Licmim minimum (Tick.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 227 (1849); Jerdon, B. of Ind. 
i. p. 374 (1862); Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 416; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 434; Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 155 (1873); Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 397; Legge, Ibis, 1875, 
p. 275 ; Fairbank, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 256. 
Uicceum ticJcellioe, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1843, xii. p. 983. 
Bicoeum ticJcelli, Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 119 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1853, xii. p. 175. 
Parasite-hirdf Europeans in Ceylon. Sungti-gmo-pho, Lepchas (Jerdon). 
Adult male. Length 3-4 inches ; wing 1-85 to 1-95 ; tail 0-95 ; tarsus 0-45 to 0-5; middle toe and claw 0-4; bill to 
gape 0'45. 
Female. Length 3‘3 inches; wing 1'7 to lw5. 
Iris yellowish brown or brown ; bill dark brown above, the lower mandible fleshy ; legs and feet brovvmsh slate. 
Above olivaceous brown, slightly greenish on the rump ; wings brown, the coverts and tertials with slightly paler 
margins ; tail blackish brown; lores and cheeks albescent, darkening on the ear-coverts ; beneath whitish, with a 
