Balabac (Everett); Bohol (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Fuga (McGregor); Guimaras (Meyer); Leyte (Everett, Whitehead); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); Maestre de Campo (McGregor & Worcester); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Bartsch); Mindoro (Steere Exp., Everett, McGregor); Negros (Steere Exp.); Palawan (Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino,[85] White); Polillo (McGregor); Romblon (McGregor); Samar (Bourns & Worcester); Semirara (McGregor & Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Ticao (McGregor).
Male.—Above glossy steel-green heavily washed with yellow on lower back, rump, 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 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 Dicæidæ. 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; tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 12.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
640. DICÆUM DAVAO Mearns.
DAVAO FLOWERPECKER.
- Dicæum davao Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 87; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 96.
Mindanao (Mearns, 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 a 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.