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DICAUM. 625 
culmen, 13; tarsus, 12.7; middle toe with claw, 13.4. A female, length, 
97; wing, 50; tail, 25; culmen, 15; tarsus, 14.4; middle toe with claw, 
13. Iris dark reddish brown; bill, legs, feet, and nails black. Breeding . 
in Mindoro in the month of April.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
624. DICAEUM HAEMATOSTICTUM Sharpe. 
WHITE-THROATED FLOWERPECKER, 
Diceum hamatostictum SHARPE, Nature (1876), 14, 298; Trans. Linn. Soc. 
Qd. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 336; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 35; 
Grant and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 243, pl. 6, fig. 2 (egg) ; WHITE- 
HEAD, Ibis (1899), 233 (nest); McGrrecor and WoRCESTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 96. 
Guimaras (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Negros (Steere, Everett, 
Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay, Celestino) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns 
& Worcester). 
Male.—Upper parts, including wings and tail, black with a slight 
blue gloss; cheeks, sides of head and of neck black; no red on the neck; 
under parts white; sides and flanks washed with ashy; a slate-black 
band or patch across fore breast; a broad band of scarlet-vermilion on 
middle of breast and abdomen. A male from Panay measures: Wing, 
53; tail, 29; culmen from base, 11; bill from nostril, 7.5; tarsus, 14. 
“Young.—Differs from the adult in being slaty gray above, the wings 
and tail being blacker, with grayish margins to the feathers; under 
surface of body ashy whitish, washed with yellowish on the abdomen and 
with grayish on the sides of the body.” (Sharpe.) 
“Found in deep woods, also in coconut groves and about flowering 
trees in the open. Frequently found feeding side by side with D. dorsale. 
Fourteen males average: Length, 94; wing, 56; tail, 29; culmen, 14; 
tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 14. Thirteen females, length, 93; 
wing, 53; tail, 27; culmen, 14; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 14. 
Iris very dark brown; bill, legs, and nails black.” (Bourns and Wor- 
cester MS.) 
Whitehead collected one fresh egg of this species at the base of Canlaon 
Volcano, Negros, on March 19, 1896. It is described as follows: “Shape 
ovate. Ground-color very pale greenish white, profusely spotted towards 
the larger end with rather heavy clouded lilac under-markings and olive- 
brown specks, which are distributed sparingly over the rest of the shell. 
Measurements 17 mm. by 12 mm. The only nest found was suspended 
from the end of a branch some distance from the ground.” (Grant and 
Whitehead.) 
