- Prionochilus bicolor Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 20; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97.
Mindanao (Bourns & Worcester).
“Adult male.—Entire upper surface deep black, with faint metallic blue gloss; entire under surface, including under wing-coverts, axillars, and inner webs of quills, white; bases of feathers of breast, flanks, and abdomen slaty black. Bill, legs, and feet black; iris red. Length, 82.5; wing, 50; tail, 24; culmen, 10.6; tarsus, 14. Found in the hills of Ayala, near Zamboanga.” (Bourns and Worcester.)
650. PRIONOCHILUS INEXPECTATUS Hartert.
HARTERT’S FLOWERPECKER.
- Prionochilus inexpectatus Hartert, Novit. Zool. (1895), 2, 64 and 486; Grant, Ibis (1896), 533; (1897), 240; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97.
- Prionochilus bicolor Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 235.
Bohol (McGregor); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Everett, Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, Everett, McGregor); Negros (Whitehead); Samar (Whitehead).
Male.—Above glossy blue-black; breast, sides, and flanks cinereous; chin, throat, median line of breast and abdomen, crissum, wing-lining, axillars, and inner webs of quills white. Bill, legs, and nails black. A male from Mindoro measures: Length, 90; wing, 49; tail, 23; culmen from base, 9; bill from nostril, 6; greatest width of bill, 6; tarsus, 10.
Female.—Above brown, washed with olive-green, brightest on rump, tail-coverts, and outer webs of secondaries; below similar to the male, but with a faint olivaceous wash. Wing, 51; tail, 25; culmen from base, 9; bill from nostril, 5.5; tarsus, 13.
“This recently-described species has now been met with in Samar and Leyte. It seems more than probable that it is not really distinct from P. bicolor Bourns and Worcester; but having no typical specimens of the latter form from Mindanao, I can not be certain.” (Grant.)