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Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 
Sirs, —Whilst up the West River in South China along 
with Lieut.-Commander R. E. Vaughan, of H.M.S. 4 Moor¬ 
hen/ we took a nest of the lovely little Flowerpecker Dicxum 
cruentatum , at How-lik, on August 19th, 1906, with five 
Text-fig. 10. 
Nest of Dicceum cruentatum. 
newly-hatched young. The nest, of which I enclose a sketch 
(text-fig. 10), is made of fine strips of the inner bark of trees, 
with a few other fibres, and is bound together with the silky 
pappus of Bornbax ceiba , and lined with the same material. 
The length of the nest is about 4J inches and its diameter 
about 2^, outside measurements. 
Another nest of this bird, taken with eggs on July 7th, 
