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I UNIVERSITY I 



DICTUM. 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. DIC/EUM H/EM ATOSTICTUM Sharpe. 

 WHITE-THROATED FLOWERPECKEB, 



Dicceum hcematostictum SHARPE, Nature (1876), 14, 298; Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 336; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 35; 

 GRANT and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 243, pi. 6, fig. 2 (egg); WHITE- 

 HEAD, Ibis (1899), 233 (nest); MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 96.. 



Guimaras (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Negros (Steere, Everett, 

 Bteere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Keay, Celestino) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns 

 d 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 1? mm. by 12 mm. The only nest found was suspended 

 from the end of a branch some distance from the ground." (Grant and 

 Wfiitehead.) 



