MS. “Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.” 349 
3 2, ex Akyab, and Chalcoparia phenicotis, § ex Akyab, 
? 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 Diceine. Figure 1, on 
the first plate, is entitled Diceum minimum, Tickell, and stated 
to have been drawn from a male example obtained at Yé. 
As described, the bird may be D. minimum; but as figured, it 
is certainly D. cruentatum 2 vel gjuv. The upper tail- 
coverts are coloured red in the plate; and so is the base of 
the bill. The figure does not represent Tickell’s type ob- 
tained in the Saul jungles of Borabhoom and Dhalbhoom, 
but a totally distinct bird. 
The second figure is of D. cruentatum g adult; and the 
third (which completes the plate) is entitled “ Diceum chry- 
sorheum, 'Temm., ¢, Yé, Tenasserim.” As described, this is 
pi trigonostigma 2 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. chrysorrheum. No 
description of D. trigonostigma 2 appears to have been 
published; and I therefore give one, and also a figure of 
it (Plate IX. 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, flanks, 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 g juv. is exceed- 
ingly like D. virescens, Hume, ¢ ?, ex Andamans (Str. F. 
18738, p. 482); and it may be that the specimens obtained at 
Pahpoon and neighbourhood by Mr. Davison, and identified 










