DICTUM. 635 



measures : Wing, 53 , tail, 24; culmen from base, 13 ; bill from nostril, 9 ; 

 tarsus, 13. 



Female. — Above mouse-gray faintly washed with olive-green except 

 on tail-coverts where the green is heavier ; secondaries and greater coverts 

 €dged with olive-green ; under parts white. Wing, 50 : tail, 24 ; culmen 

 from base, 13 ; bill from nostril, 9 ; tarsus, 13. 



"Found by us in the deep woods. Stated by Guillemard to frequent 

 coconut groves. Three males average: Length, 89; wing, 53; tail, 27; 

 tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 12.7. Iris reddish brown; bill, legs, 

 feet, and nails black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



642. DIOEUM MINDANENSE Tweeddale. 



MINDANAO FLOWERPECKER. 



DiccBum mindanense Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 547; Challenger 

 Report, Zool. (1881), 2, pi. 8, pi. 5, fig. 1; Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1885), 10, 37; McGeegoe and Wokcesteb, Hand-List (1906), 97. 



Basilan [Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Murray) ; Sulu (Bourns d Wor- 

 ■cester) ; Tawi_ Tawi (Bourns & Worcester) . 



"Adult male {type of species). — General color above sooty brown, 

 washed with olive, grayer 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, and cheeks sooty black ; throat and under surface 

 of body white, washed with ashy on the fore neck, breast, and flanks; 

 under tail-coverts white, with an olive-yellow tinge; under wing-coverts 

 and axillars white, Avith a slight tinge of yellow; edge of wing sooty 

 brown; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner web. 

 Length, 81 ; culmen, 14; wing, 48.2 ; tail, 25.4; tarsus, 12.7." (Sharpe.) 



"So far as we can judge from the figure in The Ibis, Dr. Sharpe has 

 confused D. mindanense with D. hypoleucum. The two species occur 

 together in Basilan and Sulu, and probably also in Tawi Tawi. Seven 

 males average: Length, 90; wing, 52; tail, 26.6; culmen, 14; tarsus, 

 13 ; middle toe with claw, 13. Eight females, length, 87.6 ; wing, 50 ; 

 tail, 24; culmen, 14.4; tarsus, 12.7; middle toe with claw, 13. Iris 

 brown; bill, legs, feet, and nails black. Breeding in Basilan in the 

 month of September." (Bourns and ^yorccster MS.) 



