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olive-green; rectrices black, edged with metallic green; wings black; 

 secondaries and greater coverts edged with olive-yellow; alula, lesser 

 coverts, and median coverts edged with glossy green. A male from Cebu 

 measures: Wing, 46; tail, 23; culmen from base, 10; bill from nostril, 

 6.5; tarsus, 11. 



Female. Above somewhat similar to the male, but lighter and greener 

 and with less metallic gloss; wing-feathers edged with olive-yellow; all 

 the under parts lighter and paler than in the male. A female from 

 Cebu, wing, 43; tail, 21; culmen from base, 10; bill from nostril, 7; 

 tarsus, 11. 



"The pygmy flowerpecker is the smallest and most widely distributed 

 of Philippine Dicceidce. Invariably found by us in the deep woods. A 

 very fearless bird. Iris dark brown; legs, feet, and nails dark brown to 

 coal-black; bill black, except base of lower mandible, which is yellowish 

 to gray. Breeding in Palawan in December and in Samar in July. 

 Four males average : Length, 92 ; wing, 46 ; tail, 25 ; culmen, 13 ; tarsus, 

 12; middle toe with claw, 12. Three females, length, 83.5; wing, 45; 

 tail, 24.6; culmen, 13; tarsup, 12; middle toe with claw, 12." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



640. DIC/EUM DAVAO Mearns. 

 DAVAO FLOWERPECKER. 



Dicceum davao MEABNS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 87; McGBEQOB 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 96. 



Mindanao (M earns, Celestino). 



Male. Above, including the edges of wing-feathers and of rectrices, 

 glossy steel-green; lores, sides of head and of neck black; chin and 

 middle of throat white faintly washed with yellow and interrupted by 

 t black patch on breast; sides of breast black; sides of abdomen and 

 flanks olive-yellow ; under tail-coverts and middle of lower abdomen light 

 buff-yellow ; axillars and wing-lining white ; edge of wing black. A male 

 from northern Mindanao measures : Wing, 44 ; tail, 21 ; culmen from base, 

 10 ; bill from nostril, 7 ; tarsus, 10. The female is unknown. 



641. DIOEUM HYPOLEUCUM Sharpe. 

 WHITE-BELLIED FLOWERPECKER. 



Dicasum hypoleucum SHARPE, Nature (1876), 24, 298; Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1885), 10, 37; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 97. 



Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Bongao 

 (Everett); Siasi (Everett); Sulu (Ouillemard). 



Male. Upper parts, including sides of head and of neck deep black ; 

 under parts white ; wing-lining and axillars white. A male from Basilan 



