636 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
643. DICAEUM EVERETTI Tweeddale. 
EVERETT’S FLOWERPECEER, 
Diceum everetti TWEEDDALE, Aa & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 537; Proce. 
Zool. Soe. (1878), 111, pl. 8, fig. 2; Swarpr, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
(1885), 10, 47; WuitEHEaAD, Ibis (1899), 234 (nest) ; McGreaor and 
WokRCcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 97. 
Diceum modestum TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1878), 380. 
Bohol (McGregor); Dinagat (Hverett); Leyte (Whitehead); Panaon (Hve- 
rett); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns € Worcester, Whitehead). 
“Adult male (type of D. modestum).—General color above dark olive- 
brown, the head uniform with the back; lesser and median wing-coverts 
like the back; bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform dark brown; 
greater wing-coverts and quills dark brown, edged yith yellowish olive, 
more distinct on the secondaries; upper tail-coverts brown, washed with 
olive; tail black; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts dusky olive-brown, 
the cheeks lighter olive-ashy ; throat and fore neck ashy gray, olive-yellow 
on the chin, a tinge of the latter color also pervading the throat; breast 
and abdomen pale whitish tinged with yellow; sides of body, flanks, and 
under tail-coverts pale olive-greenish; under wing-coverts and axillars 
white, with a faint tinge of yellow; quills dusky brown below, ashy 
whitish along the edge of the inner web. Length, 80; culmen, 11.4; 
wing, 48; tail, 24; tarsus, 12.7 (Mus. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 
“Observation.—I have compared the types of D. modestum and D. 
everettt in Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay’s collection, and can not find any 
specific difference between them.” (Sharpe.) 
“Quite common in Samar, and so far as our observation goes, a 
strictly deep woods bird. A male measures: Length, 89; wing, 50; tail, 
24; culmen, 11; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 13. Two females, 
length, 84; wing, 46; tail, 22.6; culmen, 12.7; tarsus, 11.6; middle toe 
with claw, 12.. Iris brown; legs, feet, and nails dark brown; bill black.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
644. DICHZUM OBSCURUM Grant. 
DUSKY FLOWERPECEER, 
Diceum obscurum GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 50; Ibis (1894), 
515; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 234 (feeding habits); McGrecor and 
WokRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 97. 
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor). 
Male and female.—Above olive-brown, with a wash of green on rump 
and tail-coverts; wing-feathers and rectrices blackish brown, edged with 
olive-green ; inner webs of quills edged with white; under parts gray, 
washed with sage-green and with a light streak on middle of breast and 
of abdomen. Iris light brown; upper mandible dark brown; lower 
