CINNAMON HYPOCRYPTADIUS.
- Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1903), 14, 13; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 96; Grant, Ibis (1906), 473, pl. 18, fig. 1.
Mindanao (Goodfellow, Mearns).
Male.—Above bright cinnamon-rufous; wing-feathers and rectrices blackish brown with most of the outer webs cinnamon-rufous; inner webs of primaries and secondaries cinnamon; under parts buff, tinged with cinnamon on breast, and becoming lilac-gray on lower breast and abdomen, and nearly white on crissum; thighs darker. Wing, 90; tail, 54; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 21.
The female is similar to the male. This species is known only from Mount Apo, Mindanao.
Family DICÆIDÆ.
Bill short, rather broad at the base; cutting edges of both mandibles finely serrated for at least the distal third; first primary usually wanting; tail short and square. Birds of this family resemble the Nectariniidæ and differ from all other Passeriformes in the finely serrated tomia. The species are all small resident birds. Some are brightly marked with red or yellow, while others are plainly colored. They feed about flower or fruit trees or vines in the manner of the sunbirds.
Genera.
- a1. Bill longer and more slender;
width of upper mandible at base not greater, usually much less, than
bill from nostril; tail shorter, not extending beyond the toes.
- b1. Bill more slender, the terminal half decidedly compressed; outline of gonys nearly straight; culmen from base at least twice the greatest width of upper mandible; short first primary wanting Dicæum (p. [622])
- b2. Bill stouter, and decidedly broad nearly to the tip; outline of gonys convex; culmen from base less than twice the width of upper mandible. Prionochilus (p. [637])
- a2. Bill shorter and stouter; width of upper mandible at base greater than length of bill from nostril; tail longer, its tip reaching beyond the toes. Piprisoma (p. [641])