Arachnothera flammifera Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 343;
Shelley, Monogr. Nectarin. pts. 9 & 10 (1879), 361, pl. 115;
Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 104; Whitehead, Ibis
(1899), 230; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 100.
Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Bohol
(McGregor); Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead); Mindanao
(Platen, Celestino); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
Whitehead).
Male.--Above olive-green, the bases of the crown-feathers dark brown;
chin, throat, and breast light gray, washed with pale olive-green;
abdomen, flanks, and crissum bright lemon-yellow; thighs gray,
washed with yellow; a small tuft of feathers on each side of breast
cadmium-yellow; wing-feathers blackish brown edged with olive-green;
rectrices blackish, edged with olive-green and, except the middle pair,
tipped with white and gray; axillars and wing-lining slightly washed
with pale yellow. A male from Basilan measures: Length, 152; wing,
64; tail, 43; culmen from base, 35; bill from nostril, 28; tarsus, 15.
Female.--Slightly smaller than the male and without the yellow
pectoral tufts. A female from Basilan measures: Wing, 59; tail, 38;
culmen from base, 32; bill from nostril, 26; tarsus, 15.
"Four males average: Length, 141; wing, 62; tail, 45; culmen, 34;
tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 16. A female, length, 148; wing,
62; tail, 41; culmen, 41; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 16. Iris
reddish brown; legs and feet slate-blue; upper mandible black, lower
black at tip, gray at base." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)