5. Dic^TJir. 37 



the inner web. Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2*05, 

 tail I'lo, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, and with a red line 

 down the centre of the hreast and abdomen, as in that sex ; " bill 

 and legs black; iris dark blood-red" {A. Everett). Total length 

 3-3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2, tail 0'9, tarsus O'oo. {Mus. li. G. 

 Wardlaiv Ramsaij.) 



Young male (type of D. scliistaeeum). Differs from the adult in 

 being slaty grey above and in the absence of the red line down the 

 abdomen, the whole under surface being pale ashy ; lower mandible 

 yellowish in skin. Total length 3'9 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 2-25, 

 tail 1-1, tarsus 0-55. (Mas. 11. G. W. II) 



Hah. Islands of Luzon, Zebu, Dinagat, and Mindanao, in the 

 Philippine archipelago. 



a. Ad. sk. Philippines. Hugh Cuming, Esq. 



b, c. Juv. sk. Manila, Luzon. Hugh Cuming, Esc^. 



d. Ad. sk. Mindanao. Gould Collection. 



[S. n. D. ret rod net um J .] 



e. 2 ad. sk. Zamboanga, Mindanao, Capt. R. G. Wardlaw 



AprU f^Ecerett). Kamsay. 



33. Dicseum hypoleucum. 



Dicteum hypoleucum, Sharpe, Nature, Aug. 1876, p. 298 ; id. Trans, 

 Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. vol. i. p. 339 ; Twsedd. P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 72 ; Wardlaw Hamsai/, Orn. Works Tweedd. p. 658 (1881). 



Adult male. Above black, with a slight gloss of green on the 

 head ; sides of face and sides of neck black ; cheeks and entire 

 under surface of body white, including the under wing-coverts and 

 under tail-coverts ; wings and tail black ; " bill and feet black ; iris 

 dark browa" (Stcere). Total length 3-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 

 2-1, tail 1-05, tarsus 0-55. 



Hab. Islands of Malamaui and Basilan, in the Philippine archi- 

 pelago. 



a. (S ad. sk. Isabella de Basilan. Prof. J. B. Steere [0.]. 



34. Dicseum mindanense. 



Dicseum mindanense, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 547 ; id. Report Voij . 

 ' Challenger' Birds, p. 20, pi. 5. fig. 1 (1881) ; Wardlaw Painsai/, 

 Orn. Works Tiveedd. pp. 471, 658 (1881). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above sooty brown 

 washed with olive, greyer on the rump, the head washed with a 

 little yellower olive ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; remainder 

 of wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark 

 brown, externally edged with olive ; upper tail-coverts washed with 

 light olive ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive, with a narrow 

 white fringe at the end of the inner web of the three outermost 

 feathers ; lores, feathers round the eye, sides of face, ear-coverts, 



