DICADUM. 633 
greenish borders to the outer webs; lower back and tail-coverts dark slate- 
color ; tail black; front and sides of throat white, lower throat and chest 
as well as sides of lower body light ash-gray; at the middle of the latter 
a beautiful cadmium-yellow stripe, up to 6 mm. wide (Ridgway cadmium- 
yellow, pl. vi, 6), becoming white toward vent; under tail-coverts, axillars, 
and under wing-coverts white, outer ones with a blackish spot in the 
middle; thighs externally white, blackish behind; feet brown; bill black, 
strong.* 
639. DICAZEUM PYGM/AEUM (Kittlitz). 
PYGMY FLOWERPECKER, 
Nectarinia pygmeum Kirriitz, Mem. pres. Acad. St. Petersb. (1833), 2, 
pts. 1, 2, pl. 2. 
Diceum pygmeum SuarPe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 43; Wuuite- 
HEAD, Ibis (1899), 234 (distribution, nest) ; McGrecor and WoRCESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 97. 
Pi-pit dé-po, Manila. 
Balabac (Everett); Bohol (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Fuga (Me- 
Gregor) ; Guimaras (Meyer) ; Leyte (Hverett, Whitehead) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; 
Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor) ; Maestre de Campo 
(McGregor & Worcester); Masbate (Bourns € Worcester, McGregor, Bartsch) ; 
Mindoro (Steere Hap., Hverett, McGregor); Negros (Steere Eap.); Palawan 
(Hverett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino,* White) ; 
Polillo (McGregor) ; Romblon (McGregor) ; Samar (Bowrns € Worcester) ; Semi- 
rara (McGregor € Worcester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester) ; Siquijor (Bourns 
& Worcester, Celestino) ; Ticao (McGregor). 
Male.—Above glossy steel-green heavily washed with yellow on lower 
back, rump, and tail-coverts; lores blackish; sides of head, of throat, and 
of breast dark cinereous; middle of chin, throat, and chest white faintly 
washed with yellow and interrupted in the middle of breast by a cinereous 
patch’; middle of abdomen and tail-coverts light buff; sides and flanks 
* The original diagnosis and description of Dicwum flaviventer, from which 
the above description is taken, are as follows: 
“Diceum D. rubriventri Less. similis, sed parte media pectoris abdominisque 
cadmiumino-flava, capite supra dorsoque virescentibus et uropygio obscure ardesiaco 
distinguendum. 
“Long. al. 55, caud. 30, tars. 12, culm. 10.5 mm. ( @ ). 
“Hab. Insula Philippinarum Cebit. 
“Kopf, Oberriicken und Fliigeldecken griinlich schwarz mit etwas Glanz. 
Schwingen schwiirzlichbraunn, die Secundaren mit griinlich gliinzenden Rindern 
auf der Aussenfahne. Unterriicken und schwanzdecken dunkel schieferfarbig. 
Sechwanz schwarz. Kehle vorn und an den Seiten weiss, untere Kehle und 
Brust, sowie die Seiten des Unterkérpers hell aschgrau, in der Mitte desselben 
ein schéner cadmiumgelber, bis 6 mm breiter Streif (Ridgway: cadmium-yellow 
Pl. VI, 6), nach dem After zu in Weiss ubergehend; untere Schwanzdecken, 
Axillaren und untere Fliigeldecken weiss, die iiusseren mit einem schwiirzlichen 
Fleck in der Mitte. Hosen aussen weiss, hinten terminal schwiirzlich. Fiisse 
braun. Schnabel schwarz, kriiftig.” 
* Celestino’s specimens were recorded by mistake as Dicwum papuense, Phil. 
Jour. Sct. (1906), 1, 907. 
