624 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



a^ Adults dull colored, black and white, or at least without red, orange, or 

 bright yellow in any part of the plumage; the sexes alike in colors or 

 similar. 

 6'. Upper parts nearly uniform in color, or the head and mantle, at least, of 

 one color. 

 &. Smaller; bill from nostril, 7 mm.; wing, 40 to 45. 



d}. Sides of head and neck ashy or slate-color; rump and tail-coverts 



washed with yellow pygmseum (p. 633) 



d}. Sides of head and neck black ; rump and tail-coverts glossy green like 



the head and back davao (p. 634) 



c*. Larger; bill from nostril, about 9 mm.; wing, 53 to 55. 

 d'. Under parts Avhite or whitish. 



e\ Upper parts black with a slight green gloss hypoleucum (p. 634) 



e^. Upper parts dark brown. 



/*. Above sooty brown washed with olive; below white; fore neck, 



breast, and flanks washed with ashy mindanense (p. 635) 



/^. Above dark olive-brown; throat and fore neck ashy gray tinged 

 with olive-yellow; breast and abdomen white tinged with yellow. 



everetti (p. 636) 

 d}. Under parts dull olive-gray; upper parts washed with olive-green. 



obscurum (p. 636) 



6^. Upper parts not uniform in color; head, rump, and tail-coverts olive-green; 



mantle smoky brown nigrilore (p. 637) 



623. DIC/EUM RETROCINCTUM Gould. 



REB-COLLARED FLOWERPECKER. 



Dicceum retrocinctvm Gotxld, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1872), 10, 114; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 35; McGbegob and Wor- 

 cester, Hand-List (1906), 96. 

 Luzon {?) ;* Mindoro {Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Everett, McGregor) . 



Male and female. — Upper parts, including wings and tail, black with 

 a slight blue gloss ; a collar of scarlet-vermilion on hind neck ; lores dead 

 black; sides of head, chin, throat, and breast dull black with a small 

 scarlet-vermilion patch in center of upper throat on line with the eyes; 

 abdomen, flanks, thighs, crissum, and sides of breast white, mixed with 

 gray on the sides; in the middle of lower breast an oblong scarlet- 

 vermilion patch which is surrounded by black. A male measures: 

 Length, 100; wing, 53; tail, 27; culmen from base, 13; bill from nostril, 

 8; tarsus, 13.5. A female, wing, 50; tail, 26; culmen from base, 12; bill 

 from nostril, 8.5; tarsus, 14. 



"Fairly abundant in Mindoro. Found both in the forest and in the 

 coconut groves. Three males average: Length, 91; wing, 53; tail, 27; 



* Gould's type came from "Manila," its collector is unknown and Dicceum 

 retrocinctum has not been found in Luzon by anj' recent collector. It seems 

 probable that the type was not collected in Luzon. 



