Dicæum everetti Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 537;
Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 111, pl. 8, fig. 2; Sharpe, Cat. Birds
Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 47; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 234 (nest);
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97.
Dicæum modestum Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 380.
Bohol (McGregor); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Whitehead); Panaon
(Everett); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
"Adult male (type of D. modestum).--General color above dark
olive-brown, the head uniform with the back; lesser and median
wing-coverts like the back; bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform
dark brown; greater wing-coverts and quills dark brown, edged with
yellowish olive, more distinct on the secondaries; upper tail-coverts
brown, washed with olive; tail black; lores, sides of face, and
ear-coverts dusky olive-brown, the cheeks lighter olive-ashy;
throat and fore neck ashy gray, olive-yellow on the chin, a tinge
of the latter color also pervading the throat; breast and abdomen
pale whitish tinged with yellow; sides of body, flanks, and under
tail-coverts pale olive-greenish; under wing-coverts and axillars
white, with a faint tinge of yellow; quills dusky brown below, ashy
whitish along the edge of the inner web. Length, 80; culmen, 11.4;
wing, 48; tail, 24; tarsus, 12.7 (Mus. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.)
"Observation.--I have compared the types of D. modestum and D. everetti
in Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay's collection, and can not find any specific
difference between them." (Sharpe.)
"Quite common in Samar, and so far as our observation goes, a
strictly deep woods bird. A male measures: Length, 89; wing, 50; tail,
24; culmen, 11; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 13. Two females,
length, 84; wing, 46; tail, 22.6; culmen, 12.7; tarsus, 11.6; middle
toe with claw, 12. Iris brown; legs, feet, and nails dark brown;
bill black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)