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.