Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)

Black-sided Flowerpecker (Dicaeum monticolum) - HBW 13, p. 387

French: Dicée de Bornéo German: Borneomistelfresser Spanish: Picaflores de Borneo
Other common names: Bornean (Fire-breasted)/Mountain Flowerpecker

Taxonomy: Dicaeum monticolum Sharpe, 1887, Mount Kinabalu, northern Borneo.
Forms a superspecies with D. ignipectus, D. celebicum, D. sanguinolentum and D. hirundinaceum; all sometimes treated as conspecific. Particularly close to D. celebicum. Proposed race zita (from Mt Dulit, in Sarawak) considered undiagnosable. Monotypic.

Distribution: Highlands of N, NW, C & SE Borneo.