\ I 



1 



mean*. - 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.) 



"Iris brown; legs, feet, and nails dark brown; bill black. Breeding 

 in July." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



631. DIOEUM XANTHOPYGIUM Tweeddale. 

 YELLOW-BUMPED FLOWERPECKER. 



Dicceum xanthopygium TWEEDDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat Hist. (1877), 20, 95; 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 698, pi. 73, fig. 1; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1885), 10, 40; GRANT, Ibis (1895), 454 (critical notes); 

 WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 234; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 97. 



Luzon (Everett, Whitehead) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.1)* Mindoro (Steere 

 Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor] ; Polillo (McGregor}. 



Male. Eump 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. DIC/EUM INTERMEDIUM Bourns and Worcester. 

 INTERMEDIATE FLOWERPECKER, 



Dicceum intermedium BOURNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 19; McGREGOE, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1906), 1, 775; 

 MCGREGOR 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 ; patch 

 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 Marinduquo, but in Bourns and 

 Worcester's MS. notes I find the remark: "Doubtless also Marinduque." Cf. also 

 Worcester and Bourns, Distribution List, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Washington 

 (1898), 20, 560, no. 361. 



