636 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



643. DIC/EUM EVERETT! Tweeddale. 

 EVERETT'S FLOWEEPECKEE. 



Dicceum everetii Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 537; Proc. 



Zool. Soc. (1878), 111, pi. 8, fig. 2; Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 



(1885), 10, 47; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 234 (nest); McGregor and 



Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97. 

 Dicceum modestum Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 380. 



Bohol (McGregor); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Whitehead); Panaon (Eve- 

 rett) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bovms & Worcester, Whitehead) . 



"Adult male (type of D. modestum) . — General color above dark olive- 

 brown, the head uniform with the back ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 like the back; bastard- wing and primary-coverts uniform dark brown; 

 greater wing-coverts and quills dark brown, edged yith yellowish olive, 

 more distinct on the secondaries; upper tail-coverts brown, washed with 

 olive; tail black; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts dusky olive-brown, 

 the cheeks lighter olive-ashy ; throat and fore neck ashy gray, olive-yellow 

 on the chin, a tinge of the latter color also pervading the throat; breast 

 and abdomen pale whitish tinged with yellow; sides of body, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts pale olive-greenish; under wing-coverts and axillars 

 white, with a faint tinge of yellow; quills dusky brown below, ashy 

 whitish along the edge of the inner web. Length, 80; culmen, 11.4; 

 wing, 48; tail, 24; tarsus, 12.7 (Mus. E. G. Wardlaw Eamsay.) 



"Observation. — I have compared the types of D. modestum and D. 

 everetti in Capt. Wardlaw Eamsay's collection, and can not find any 

 specific difference between them." (Sharpe.) 



"Quite common in Samar, and so far as our observation goes, a 

 strictly deep woods bird. A male measures : Length, 89 ; wing, 50 ; tail, 

 24; culmen, 11; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 13. Two females, 

 length, 84; wing, 46; tail, 22.6; culmen, 12.7; tarsus, 11.6; middle toe 

 with claw, 12. Iris brown; legs, feet, and nails dark brown; bill black." 

 {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



644. DIC/EUM OBSCURUM Grant. 



DUSKY FLOWERPECKER. 



Dicceiim ohscurum Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 50; Ibis (1894), 

 515; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 234 (feeding habits); McGregoe and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97. 



Luzon ( Whitehead, McGregor ) . 



Male and female. — Above olive-brown, with a wash of green on rump 

 and tail-coverts; wing- feathers and rectrices blackish brown, edged v^ith 

 olive-green; inner webs of quills edged with white; under parts gray, 

 washed with sage-green and with a light streak on middle of breast and 

 of abdomen. Iris light brown; upper mandible dark brown; lower 



