“Eighteen males average: Length, 142; wing, 52; tail, 26; culmen, 14; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 14. Fifteen females, length, 140; wing, 50; tail, 25; culmen, 14; tarsus, 12.7; middle toe with claw, 13. Legs, feet, nails, and bill black. Breeding in February.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
638. DICÆUM FLAVIVENTER Meyer.
YELLOW-BELLIED FLOWERPECKER.
- Dicæum flaviventer Meyer, Jour. für Ornith. (1894), 91; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 96.
Cebu (Burger).
Description.—Head, upper back, and wing-coverts greenish black, with somewhat of a luster; wing-quills blackish brown; secondaries with glossy 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, pl. 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.[84]
639. DICÆUM PYGMÆUM (Kittlitz).
PYGMY FLOWERPECKER.
- Nectarinia pygmæum Kittlitz, Mem. pres. Acad. St. Petersb. (1833), 2, pts. 1, 2, pl. 2.
- Dicæum pygmæum Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 43; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 234 (distribution, nest); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97.
Pi-pít dá-po, Manila.