Leafbirds (Chloropseidae)

Bornean Leafbird (Chloropsis kinabaluensis) - HBW 10, p. 264

French: Verdin de Bornéo German: Kinabalublattvogel Spanish: Verdín de Borneo

Taxonomy: Chloropsis kinabaluensis Sharpe, 1887, Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo.
Specific name sometimes given as flavocincta, but original describer subsequently gave precedence to present name. Probably forms a superspecies with C. cochinchinensis, C. jerdoni and C. palawanensis; was for long regarded as a race of first of those, but differs in bill morphology and plumage, exhibits lesser degree of sexual size dimorphism (mean 3% versus 8%), and ranges approach or meet each other without evidence of intergradation. Monotypic.

Distribution: N Borneo, from Mt Kinabalu S along the spinal mountains to Mt Dulit and the Usun Apau Plateau and E to Kayan Mentarang.