DICJEUM. 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, pi. 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. DIOEUM PYGM/EUM (Kittlitz). 



PYGMY FLOWERPECKER. 



Nectarinia pygmccum KITTLITZ, Mem. pres. Acad. St. Petersb. (1833), 2, 

 pts. 1, 2, pi. 2. 



Diccsum pygmceum SHAEPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 43; WHITE- 

 HEAD, Ibis (1899), 234 (distribution, nest) ; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, 

 Hand-List (1906), 97. 



Pi-pit dd-po, Manila. 



Balabac (Everett)-, Bohol (McGregor)-, Calayan (McGregor); Fuga (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Guimaras (Meyer) ; Leyte (Everett, Whitehead) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; 

 Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Mc(Tregor) ; Maestre de Campo 

 (McGregor d Worcester); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Bartsch) ; 

 Mindoro (Steere Exp., Everett, McGregor] ; Negros (Steere Exp.) ; Palawan 

 (Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino* White) ; 

 Polillo (McGregor) ; Romblon (McGregor) ; Samar (Bourns & 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, rurnp, 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 Dicceum flaviventer, from which 

 the above description is taken, are as follows: 



"Dicceum 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 Cebu. 



"Kopf, Oberriicken und Fliigeldecken griinlich schwarz mit etwas Glanz. 

 Schwingen sehwarzlichbraunn, die Secundaren mit griinlich glanzenden Raiidern 

 auf der Aussenfahne. Unterriicken und schwanzdecken, dunkel schieferfarbig. 

 Schwanz schwarz. Kehle vorn und an den Seiten weiss, untere Kehle und 

 Brust, sowie die Seiten des Unterkorpers hell aschgrau, in der Mitte desselben 

 ein schoner cadmiumgelber, bis 6 mm breiter Streif (Ridgway: cadmium-yellow 

 PI. VI, 6), nach dem After zu in Weiss ubergehend; untere Schwanzdecken, 

 Axillaren und untere Fliigeldecken weiss, die ausseren mit einem schwarzlichen 

 Fleck in der Mitte. Hosen aussen weiss, hinten terminal schwarzlich. Fiisse 

 braun. Schnabel schwarz, kraftig." 



* Celestino's specimens were recorded by mistake as Dicceum papuense, Phil. 

 Jour. Sci. (1906), 1, 907. 



