DICADUM. 635 
measures: Wing, 53; tail, 24; culmen from base, 13; bill from nostril, 9; 
tarsus, 13. 
Female.—Above mouse-gray faintly washed with olive-green except 
on tail-coverts where the green is heavier; secondaries and greater coverts 
edged with olive-green; under parts white. Wing, 50; tail, 24; culmen 
from base, 13; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 13. 
“Found by us in the deep woods. Stated by Guillemard to frequent 
coconut groves. Three males average: Length, 89; wing, 53; tail, 27; 
tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 12.7. Iris reddish brown; bill, legs, 
feet, and nails black.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
642. DICALUM MINDANENSE Tweeddale. 
MINDANAO FLOWERPECKER,. 
Diceum mindanense TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 547; Challenger 
Report, Zool. (1881), 2, pt. 8, pl. 5, fig. 1; SHarps, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1885), 10, 37; McGrecor and WorRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 97. 
Basilan (Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Murray); Sulu (Bourns & Wor- 
cester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 
“Adult male (type of species).—General color above sooty brown, 
washed with olive, grayer on the rump, the head washed with a little 
yellower olive; lesser wing-coverts like the back; remainder of wing- 
coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, externally 
edged with olive; upper tail-coverts washed with light olive; tail-feathers 
blackish, edged with olive, with a narrow white fringe‘at the end of the 
inner web of the three outermost feathers; lores, feathers round the eye, 
sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks sooty black; throat and under surface 
of body white, washed with ashy on the fore neck, breast, and flanks ; 
under tail-coverts white, with an olive-yellow tinge; under wing-coverts 
and axillars white, with a slight tinge of yellow; edge of wing sooty 
brown; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner web. 
Length, 81; culmen, 14; wing, 48.2; tail, 25.4; tarsus, 12.7.” (Sharpe.) 
“So far as we can judge from the figure in The Ibis, Dr. Sharpe has 
confused D. mindanense with D. hypoleucum. The two species occur 
together in Basilan and Sulu, and probably also in Tawi Tawi. Seven 
males average: Length, 90; wing, 52; tail, 26.6; culmen, 14; tarsus, 
13; middle toe with claw, 13. Hight females, length, 87.6; wing, 50; 
tail, 24; culmen, 14.4; tarsus, 12.7; middle toe with claw, 13. Iris 
brown; bill, legs, feet, and nails black. Breeding in Basilan in the 
month of September.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
