DICUM. 629 
“Measurements of eleven males: Length, 89; culmen, 14; wing, 49; 
tail, 26; tarsus, 13. Of four females: Length, 84; wing, 48; tail, 25; 
tarsus, 12.” (Bourns and Worcester.) 
“Tris brown; legs, feet, and nails dark brown; bill black. Breeding 
in July.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
631. DICAZEUM XANTHOPYGIUM Tweeddale. 
YELLOW-RUMPED FLOWERPECKER, . 
Diceum xanthopygium TWEEDDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat Hist. (1877), 20, 95; 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 698, pl. 73, fig. 1; SHaArpr, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1885), 10, 40; Grant, Ibis (1895), 454 (critical notes) ; 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 234; McGrecor and WorcrEsTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 97. 
Luzon (Everett, Whitehead) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.?)* Mindoro (Steere 
Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Polillo (McGregor). 
Male——Rump bright lemon-yellow, otherwise scarcely different from 
the male of D. dorsale. A male from Mindoro measures: Wing, 47; tail, 
19; culmen from base, 10; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 11. 
Female.—Rump pale lemon-yellow, otherwise similar to the female of 
D. dorsale. A female from Mindoro, wing, 46; tail, 20; culmen from 
base, 10; bill from nostril, 6; tarsus, 11. 
“Two males average: Length, 82; wing, 47; tail, 21; culmen, 13; 
tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 13. Iris dark brown; bill, legs, feet, 
and nails black.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
632. DICAZXUM INTERMEDIUM Bourns and Worcester. 
INTERMEDIATE FLOWERPECKER, 
Diceum intermedium BourNns and WorcEsTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 19; McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1906), 1, 775; 
McGrecor and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 96. 
Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester, 
Celestino). 
Male.—Upper parts, including sides of head and of neck, and exposed 
edges of wing-feathers and rectrices slate-blue, or dark indigo-blue; pateb 
on center of back orpiment-orange; rump faintly washed with olive- 
green ; lores black; chin and throat light ashy gray faintly and uniformly 
washed with pale yellow; remainder of under parts bright yellow in- 
clining to orange on middle of breast. Iris brown; bill, legs, and nails 
black. Wing, 51; tail, 25; culmen from base, 11; bill from nostril, 9; 
tarsus, 14. 
*Steere did not record this species from Marinduque, but in Bourns and 
Worcester’s MS. notes I find the remark: “Doubtless also Marinduque.” Cf. also 
Worcester and Bourns, Distribution List, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. Washington 
(1898), 20, 560, no. 361. 
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