628. DICÆUM BONGA Hartert.
SAMAR FLOWERPECKER.
- Dicæum luzoniense Grant, Ibis (1897), 238 (Samar).
- Dicæum bonga Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1904), 14, 80; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 96.
Samar (Whitehead).
Diagnosis.—“Differs from D. luzoniense and D. apo in being smaller (wing only 47 mm. instead of 53 to 55 mm.). The sides of the head as dark or even darker than those of D. apo, while the upper surface seems to have a more steel-blue gloss.” (Hartert.)
629. DICÆUM DORSALE Sharpe.
SHARPE’S FLOWERPECKER.
- Dicæum dorsale Sharpe, Nature (1876), 14, 298; Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 340; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 40; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 232; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 96.
Masbate (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, Celestino); Panay (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester).
Male.—Above dark plumbeous or slate-blue; wing-feathers and rectrices black, edged with slate-blue; a patch of feathers in the middle of upper back orpiment-orange; sides of head and neck slate-blue; lores black; under parts bright lemon-yellow, becoming cadmium-yellow on abdomen and orpiment-orange on breast; inner webs of quills white; axillars and wing-lining white, washed with yellow. Iris light brown; bill and nails black; legs dark slate-blue. A male from Masbate measures: Wing, 50; tail, 23; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 13.