DICTUM. 627 



black slightly glossed with green; chin very pale yellow; throat and 

 chest scarlet-vermilion; breast and abdomen white, washed with pale 

 yellow and with a slaty black line down the middle; sides and flanks 

 olivaceous; thighs black mixed with white; crissum saffron-yellow; 

 rectrices and wing-feathers black; wing-lining white. Iris brown; bill, 

 legs, and nails black. Length, about 95; wing, 56; tail, 29; culmen 

 from base, 10 ; bill from nostril, G ; tarsus, 12. 



"The female resembles the female of D. ignipectus, but the top of the 

 head and back are very distinctly glossed with metallic green as in the 

 male, though the gloss is much less pronounced. In some females of 

 D. ignipectus the head is slightly glossed, but the back is always olive- 

 green. Length, 86 ; wing, 46.5 ; tail, 28 ; tarsus, 12 ; culmen, 11.4." 

 {Grant.) 



Young. — ^Above mouse-gray washed with olive-green; under parts 

 gray washed with dull olivaceous; abdomen, crissum, and middle of 

 breast washed with light yellow. The first indication of the adult 

 plumage consists of a few red feathers on the throat. 



The Luzon flowerpecker is abundant in the mountains of Benguet 

 Province and appears not to occur in the lowlands. 



627. DIC/EUM APO Hartert. 



MOUNT APO FLOWERPECKER. 



DiccEum apo Haktert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1904), 14, 79; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 96. 



Mindanao {Waterstradt) . 



Diagnosis. — "Differs from D. luzoniense Grant in having the sides of 

 the head glossy greenish black, instead of slaty, the vent and under 

 tail-coverts brighter yellow, and the sides of abdomen darker olive-green." 

 {Hartert.) 



This species is known only from Mount Apo, Mindanao. 



628. DIC/EUM BONGA Hartert. 



SAMAR FLOWERPECKER. 



DicoBum luzoniense Grant, Ibis (1897), 238 (Samar). 



Dicaum bonga Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1904), 14, 80; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 96. 



Samar ( Whitehead ) . 



Diagnosis. — "Differs from D. luzoniense and D. apo in being smaller 

 (wing only 47 mm. instead of 53 to 55 mm.). The sides of the head 

 as dark or even darker than those of D. apo, while the upper surface 

 seems to have a more steel-blue gloss." {Hartert.) 



