Dicæum cinereigulare Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 829;
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 40; Grant and Whitehead,
Ibis (1898), 243 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 234 (nest);
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97.
Bohol (McGregor); Leyte (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Mindanao
(Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Samar (Steere Exp.,
Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
Male.--Somewhat similar to D. intermedium, the rump slate-blue like
the back; chin lemon-yellow; throat lightly washed with yellow;
entire breast orpiment-orange. Bill, legs, and nails black. A male
from Bohol measures: Length, 89; wing, 48; tail, 23; culmen from base,
11.5; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 12.5.
Female.--Above mouse-gray; rump washed with olive-green; lores
blackish; cheeks, line around eye, and a narrow frontal band washed
with yellow; chin light yellow; under parts ashy gray, washed with
yellow on sides and flanks, and with a band of yellow down middle of
breast and abdomen; under tail-coverts yellow. A female from Bohol,
wing, 47; tail, 21; culmen from base, 10; bill from nostril, 7;
tarsus, 12.
"Five males average: Length, 86; wing, 49; tail, 23.6; culmen, 12;
tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 12. Two females, length, 82.5;
wing, 45; tail, 20.5; culmen, 12.7; tarsus, 11; middle toe with claw,
12. Iris dark brown; bill, legs, feet, and nails black. Breeding in
Samar in August." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Three sets of eggs of this flowerpecker were collected by Whitehead
near Paranas, Samar, in July, 1896. These eggs are described as rather
long, ovate in shape, pure white, and measuring 15 mm. by 12 mm.
"Nest round, pocket-shaped, with the entrance at the side, suspended
from slender boughs or to the stem of a large leaf. The outside of
the nest is made of green moss bound together with spider's webs,
the inside lined with the dark brown down stripped from the young
fern-fronds. A favorite site is a neglected native clearing some
distance from the forest." (Grant and Whitehead.)