PRIONOCHILUS. 637 



mandible light brown; legs and nails about the same color as lower 

 mandible. Length, 88 to 96. A male measures: Wing, 54; tail, 27; 

 eulmen from base, 13.5; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 15. A female, wing, 

 51; tail, 24; eulmen from base, 13; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 15. 



This neutral-colored fiowerpecker, which appears to be confined to the 

 mountains of Luzon, is difficult to describe, but it may be easily 

 recognized by its dull coloration. 



645. DIC/EUM NIGRILORE Hartert. 



BLACK-LORED FLOWERPECKER. 



Dic(eum nigi-ilore Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1904), 15, 8; McGbegob 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97. 



Mindanao ( Waterstradt, Mearns ) . 



Male and female. — Head, nape, and ear-coverts greenish yellow ; lores 

 and a line under eye and ear-coverts blackish; mantle and sides of neck 

 sepia-brown; lower back, rump, and tail-coverts greenish yellow; chin, 

 fore part of throat, abdomen, and middle of breast white; throat and 

 breast ash-gray ; flanks and crissum bright yellow ; wings and tail blackish 

 brown ; primaries edged with white ; the other feathers edged with 

 greenish yellow. A female measures : Wing, 52 ; tail, 27 ; eulmen from 

 base, 14 ; bill from nostril, 10 ; tarsus, 14. 



This is a very distinct species which is found only in the mountains of 

 Mindanao. 



Genus PEIONOCHILUS Strickland, 1841. 



Bill short and stout, very wide at base; gonys decidedly convex; first 

 primary less than one-half the second or wanting. The Philippine 

 species that are usually placed in this genus are not uniform in generic 

 characters. P. johannce has a short first primary and a moderately stout 

 bill; it resembles P. ignicapillus and is probably a typical Prionochilus. 

 'P. olivaceous has a short first primary and the bill somewhat stouter than 

 P. johannce. Prionochilus quadricolor, P. hicolor, and P. inexpectatus 

 resemble one another in having the bill short and very stout and the true 

 first primary absent. 



Species. 



a.* Under parts red and yellow johannae (p. 638) 



a'. Under parts white, or white and gray. 



¥. Mantle bright red quadricolor (p. 638) 



6^. Mantle not red. 



c'. Entire upper parts glossy blue-black. 



d'. Under parts entirely white bicolor (p. 640) 



d\ Under parts mostly light gray; chin, throat, and middle of breast and 



of abdomen white inexpectatus (p. 640) 



c^ Entire upper parts olive-j'ellow olivaceus (p. 639) 



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