Family—DIC /EID AC. 
Genus— MICROCHELID ON. 
Microchelidon Rcichcnbach, Handb. Spec. 
Orihth., Abth. II. (Handb. Scansores), 
p. 243; (leones Synops. Avium Cont. 
XI. , Nov. 1st, 1853, p. 220), 1854. Type 
(by subsequent designation) Gray, Cat. Gen. 
Subgen. Birds, p. 138, 1855 (Sylvia), i.e. .. Motacilla hirundinacea 
Shaw and Nodder. 
Myzanthe Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 
XII. , p. 983 (after Nov.), 1843 (ex Hodgson 
MS.). (1844 ?). Type (by original desig¬ 
nation) .. .. .. .. .. Motacilla hirundinacea 
Sbaw and Nodder. 
Not— 
Myzantha Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc., Vol. XV., p. 318, 1827. 
Austrodicceum Mathews, Austral Avian Record, 
Vol. II., Nos. 2-3, p. 60, Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
Type (by original designation) . . .. Motacilla hirundinacea 
Shaw and Nodder. 
When I separated Austrodicceum I wrote : “ Differs from Dicceum Cuvier in 
its much shorter, stouter bill, much longer wing, much stronger legs and feet 
and proportionately shorter tail.” 
The proposal was apparently due to a confusion of Hemichelidon and 
Myzanthe, these being proposed by Hodgson, the latter for the Indian Flower- 
peckers like the present, and Microchelidon was ruled out as being preoccupied 
by Hodgson which I do not find it to be. 
The Flowerpeckers constitute a small isolated group of birds inhabiting 
India to China and thence through all the islands to Australia, but not 
Tasmania. They have been commonly allowed family rank, but the Parda- 
lotes have been associated with them by some workers, though the latter 
have no real connection at all. The family Dicceidce, here used, includes 
only the Flowerpeckers. There are a few genera, Sharpe giving figures of 
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