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. [87]

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