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Show 1883.] MR. R. B. S H A R P E O N T H E DICEID^E. 579 to be a distinct species, of the same form and style of coloration that bird, but with the sides of the body entirely olive. I propose for it the name of 1. DlCEUM SULAENSE, sp. n. Dicaum celebicum, Wall. P.Z.S. 1882, p. 342 (nee Mull. & Schl.). D. similis D. celebico, sed corporis lateribus olivaceis nee cinereis distinguendum. Long. tot. 3*66, culmin. 0*4, ala 2*05, cauda 1*15, tarsi 0*55. Hab. Sula Islands (Wallace). Type in B. M. I may add that this species is not the same as D. sanghirense, Salvad., of which I have seen two examples in Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay's collection. 2. DlCiEUM PULCHRIUS, Sp. 11. Dicaum rubrocoronatum, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vol. xvi. p. 436 (nee Sharpe, ' Nature,' 1876, p. 339). D. similis D. rubricoronato, sedpilei colore scarlatino magis extenso et usque ad nucham producto, et pracipue corporis lateribus flavicanti-olivaceis nee cinereis distinguendum. Long. tot. culminis 0*4, ala 2*05, cauda 1*0, tarsi 0*4. Hab. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. New Guinea (Goldie). Type in B. M. 3. DlCEUM JENEUM, H. & J. Mr. E. P. Ramsay has lent me a pair of birds from the Solomon Islands, and I find that the species is a very distinct one, allied to D. pectorale, but distinguished by its bronzy upper surface and the greater extent of grey descending on the chest, as well as the bright olive-yellow flanks. 4. DlC-EUM TRISTRAMI, Sp. U. The type of this new species is in Canon Tristram's collection, and was obtained by Lieut. Richards in the island of San Cristoval. I add a full description of the specimen, as it is not to be compared to any of the other known species of Dicaeidse, belonging as it does to a group by itself, remarkable for its chocolate-brown back, black tail, and hoary grey face. Adult Male. General colour above chocolate-brown, the mantle slightly streaked with a few hoary whitish margins to the feathers; wing-coverts darker chocolate-brown than the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown ; the inner secondaries chocolate-brown, contrasting sharply with the back ; head brown, but mottled with blackish-brown centres to the feathers, the plumes of the forehead and vertex margined with hoary white, the latter slightly mottled with brown bases ; lores, eyelid, fore part of cheeks, and base of chin blackish ; hinder cheeks, throat, and fore neck |