Dicæum mindanense Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 547;
Challenger Report, Zool. (1881), 2, pt. 8, pl. 5, fig. 1; Sharpe,
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 37; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 97.
Basilan (Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Murray); Sulu (Bourns &
Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester).
"Adult male (type of species).--General color above sooty brown,
washed with olive, grayer on the rump, the head washed with a little
yellower olive; lesser wing-coverts like the back; remainder of
wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown,
externally edged with olive; upper tail-coverts washed with light
olive; tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive, with a narrow white
fringe at the end of the inner web of the three outermost feathers;
lores, feathers round the eye, sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks
sooty black; throat and under surface of body white, washed with ashy
on the fore neck, breast, and flanks; under tail-coverts white, with
an olive-yellow tinge; under wing-coverts and axillars white, with a
slight tinge of yellow; edge of wing sooty brown; quills dusky below,
white along the edge of the inner web. Length, 81; culmen, 14; wing,
48.2; tail, 25.4; tarsus, 12.7." (Sharpe.)
"So far as we can judge from the figure in The Ibis, Dr. Sharpe has
confused D. mindanense with D. hypoleucum. The two species occur
together in Basilan and Sulu, and probably also in Tawi Tawi. Seven
males average: Length, 90; wing, 52; tail, 26.6; culmen, 14, tarsus,
13; middle toe with claw, 13. Eight females, length, 87.6; wing, 50;
tail, 24; culmen, 14.4; tarsus, 12.7; middle toe with claw, 13. Iris
brown; bill, legs, feet, and nails black. Breeding in Basilan in the
month of September." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)