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Show 580 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE DIOEID.E. [Dec 4, hoary white with brown bases to the feathers ; sides of neck back; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure white, the sides of the body ashy ; sides of upper breast brown, with hoary whitish edges to the feathers; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of the inner web ; " bill black ; feet black; iris grey " (Richards). Total length 3*5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2*3, tail 1*15, tarsus 0*55. (Mus. H. B. Tristram.) 5. DICTUM SCHISTACEUM, Tweedd. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 537(1877). The type of this species, lent to me by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, appears to me to be a young bird of D. rubriventer, Less. The pale colour of the bill is characteristic of immaturity in this group of Flower-peckers ; and in the British Museum there are some ycumg specimens of the allied D. hamatostictum which also differ from the adult in the absence of the red colour on the underparts and in being of the slaty grey above. 6. DlCEUM INORNATUM. Myzanthe inornata, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82. This is a species distinct from Myzanthe ignipectus of Hodgson, with which recent authors have united it. It belongs to the dull-coloured section of the genus, containing D. concolor and its allies. It is doubtless to this species that the young male recorded by Dr. Scully from Nepal (Str. F. 1879, p. 261) really belongs, as he had doubts as to its being referable to D. ignipectus. I have examined the types of D. olivaceum, Walden, from the Karen Hills, in Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay's collection, and find that they also belong to D. inornatum (Hodgs.). 7. DICHEUM MODESTUM, Tweedd. P.Z. S. 1878, p. 380. This species appears to me to be the same as D. everetti, Tweedd., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 537 (1877). 8. PRIONOCHILUS PERCUSSUS, Temm. Pl. Col. iii. pl. 394. fig. 2 (1826). I have recently examined the type of P. percussus in the Leiden Museum, and find that it is distinct from the bird usually so called in collections from Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo. The Javan bird, the true P. percussus, has the throat white, whereas the specimens from other above-named localities have a yellow throat, and must bear the name of P. ignicapillus (Eyton). |
