MS. “Illustrations of Indian Ornithology I ) 349 
$ $ , ex Akyab, and Chalcoparia phcenicotis, $ ex Akyab, 
<j> ex Tongungoo, adorn the last two plates, representing 
the true Sun-birds. 
The next two plates contain figures of (according to Colonel 
Tickell) five distinct species of the Dicseinae. Figure 1, on 
the first plate, is entitled Dicceum minimum , Tickell, and stated 
to have been drawn from a male example obtained at Ye. 
As described, the bird may be D. minimum ; but as figured, it 
is certainly D. cruentatum £ vel $ juv. The upper tail- 
coverts are coloured red in the plate; and so is the base of 
the bill. The figure does not represent TickelFs type ob¬ 
tained in the Saul jungles of Borabhoom and Dhalbhoom, 
but a totally distinct bird. 
The second figure is of D. cruentatum $ adult; and the 
third (which completes the plate) is entitled “ Dicceum chry- 
sorhceum , Temm., <£, Ye, Tenasserim.” As described, this is 
D. trigonostigma $ vel $ juv., and agrees well with Moul- 
mein and Malaccan examples. As depicted, the species is 
difficult to identify, the yellowish green back and striated 
throat, breast, and flanks recalling D. chrysorrhosum . No 
description of D. trigonostigma $ appears to have been 
published; and I therefore give one, and also a figure of 
it (Plate JX. fig. 2). Chin, throat, upper breast, and ^ / 
cheeks pale ashy grey, palest on the chin and throat, which 
sometimes are tinged with yellow. Remainder of breast, 
abdomen, flank's, and under tail-coverts more or less yel¬ 
low, inclining on the mesial line to pale orange. Plu¬ 
mage of upper surface ashy, in some tinged with olive- 
green throughout, in others almost pure ashy on the head, 
nape, and wing-coverts. Uropygium tinged with yellow, and 
upper tail-coverts almost orange-ochre. Quills dark brown, 
edged with ashy olive-green. Rectrices dark brown. Axil- 
laries and under wing-coverts silky white. Inner edges of 
the quills, for a part of their length, white; outer edges grey 
or silvery white. D. trigonostigma $ vel £ juv. is exceed¬ 
ingly like D . virescensj Hume, $ $ , ex Andamans (Str. F. 
1873, p. 482); and it may be that the specimens obtained at 
Pahpoon and neighbourhood by Mr. Davison, and identified 
