Gould had owned these flowerpecker specimens for many years but knew little about them except that they came from the Philippine Islands. The two males had a semicollar of red plumage at the back of the neck, a small red stripe down the chin, and a longer red stripe on the abdomen. Gould thought that the third bird was a female of the species. In the text for the following plate, (Asia, II, pl.37 Yellow-throated Dicaeum) he admitted that he was corrected by the ornithologists, R.B. Sharpe and Count Salvadori, who believed it was another species, Dicaeum papuense, described by Gmelin.
The birds are depicted lifesize.
J. Gould, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1872, 4th series, Vol.X, p.114
DISTRIBUTION: Mondoro and Negros Islands in the Philippines. Listed as a critically endangered species because of the threat of deforestation