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. 
b'. Upper parts nearly uniform in Color, or the head and mantle, at least, of 
one color. 
c*, 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 ively viele wi eee pee cack tee oe oem eee eee ge ce eee ee pygmzum (p. 633) 
d’, Sides of head and neck black; rump and tail-coverts glossy green like 
thegheadbamd bac ke oho te ee ae eee ee ... davao (p. 634) 
¢@. Larger; bill from nostril, about 9 mm.; wing, 53 to 55. 
d‘. Under parts white or whitish. 
e’. Upper parts black with a slight green gloss........ hypoleucum (p. 634) 
e*. Upper parts dark brown. 
fi. Above sooty brown washed with olive; below white; fore neck, 
breast, and flanks washed with ashy............ mindanense (p. 635) 
f?. 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) 
b?. Upper parts not uniform in color; head, rump, and tail-coverts olive-green; 
mamtle SmOlsy:: DT OWI) co. oee cect sete wee et eateernae ce tee orcas reesreeamecee nigrilore (p. 637) 
623. DICAEUM RETROCINCTUM Gould. 
RED-COLLARED FLOWERPECKER. 
Diceum retrocinctum Goutp, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1872), 10, 114; 
SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 35; McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 96. 
Luzon (?);* Mindoro (Steere Hxp., Bourns & 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, 12; 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 Dicewwm 
retrocinctum has not been found in Luzon by any recent collector. It seems 
probable that the type was not collected in Luzon. 
