. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 10 BIC^ID^. inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-45, tail moulting, tarsus 0-9. Adult female. Duller in colour than the male and more greenish oliye above and ashy olive below, being paler on the abdomen; greater wing-coverts and secondaries pale yellowish white at the tips. Tounrj male. Like the old female, but a little brighter olive- yellow, and having very distinct tips of pale yellow on the wing- coverts and secondaries. Hah. Sandwich Islands. a, b. Ad. sk. Sandwich Islands. c, d. Ad. at imm. sk. Sandwich Islands. Capt. Lor
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 10 BIC^ID^. inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-45, tail moulting, tarsus 0-9. Adult female. Duller in colour than the male and more greenish oliye above and ashy olive below, being paler on the abdomen; greater wing-coverts and secondaries pale yellowish white at the tips. Tounrj male. Like the old female, but a little brighter olive- yellow, and having very distinct tips of pale yellow on the wing- coverts and secondaries. Hah. Sandwich Islands. a, b. Ad. sk. Sandwich Islands. c, d. Ad. at imm. sk. Sandwich Islands. Capt. Lord Bvron [P.]. (Type of ) e. Imm. sk. Sandwich Islands. Capt. Lord Byron [P.]. /. (S ad.; g. 2 ^d. sk. Sandwich Islands. John Gould, Esq. h. S; i, ^. 2 ad.; Hilo, Owhyhee. Voy. of ' Chal- l. cJ juv. sk. lenger.' 5. DIC-ffiUM* Type. Dicseum, Cuvier, Regne An. i. p. 410 (1817) .... D. cruentatum. Myzanthe, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 983 () D. iguipectus. • Microchelidon, Reiclienb. Handb. Scnnsortcs, p. (1853) D. Bills of B. minim, D. hirundinaceum, and B. cruentatum, to show the diiferences in size of bill in the genus BiccBum. Range. Indian peninsula and Ceylon ; Southern China and Hainan ; Burmese countries ; Malayan peninsula ; Sunda Islands ; Philippines; whole of the Malayan archipelago; New Guinea and Papuan Islands to the eastward; Australia. * DlC^rM GEISEUM. Grimpereau gris de la Chine, Sonn. Voy. Ind. Orient, ii. p. 210, pi. 61. fig. 3 (1776-82). Certhia grisea, Scop. Bel. Flor. et Faun. Insider, ii. p. 91 (1786, ex Sonn.). Phenacistes griseus, Rcichenb. Handb. Scans, p. 244 (1853). Dicseum griseum, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 115, no. 1431 (1869). Is certainly not a Bicaum, and seems to me to be intended for Burnesia socialis (Sykes); Sharpe, Cat. B. vii. p. 208. DiCEUM MAUG^I. Dicseum maugsei, Less. Traife, p. 303(1831); Gray, Gen. 5. i. p. 100 (1847); id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 115, no. 1430 (1869). Bill aurora-red ; plumage grey abo
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