Dicaeum bonga Hartert

Dicaeum bonga Hartert, 1904c: 80 (Bonga, Samar).

Now Dicaeum ignipectus bonga Hartert, 1904. See Salomonsen, 1961a: 20, Dickinson et al., 1991: 397, and Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 387.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697929, adult male, collected at Bonga, Samar Island, Philippines, on 18 June 1896, by John Whitehead (no. B.631). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Whitehead collected a single specimen of this form (see Ogilvie-Grant, 1897: 238–239, under D. luzoniense). Dickinson et al. (1991: 416) listed Bonga as probably at or near Bagacay, 12.50N, 125.13E; it is shown on the map in Whitehead (1899: 83).