Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)
Brown-backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum everetti) - HBW 13, p. 371
French:
Dicée d’Everett
German: Braunrücken-Mistelfresser
Spanish: Picaflores
Dorsipardo
Other common names: Everett’s Flowerpecker
Taxonomy: Prionochilus
everetti Sharpe, 1877, Bintulu, Sarawak, western Borneo.
Race
bungurense possibly belongs in D. agile. Described race
sordidum, from Rawang, in C Selangor (W Peninsular Malaysia),
is considered inseparable from nominate and therefore synonymized
with it. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- everetti (Sharpe, 1877) - Peninsular Malaysia (Selangor), Riau Archipelago (Bintan I) and N & W Borneo.
- bungurense (Chasen, 1935) - Bunguran, in N Natuna Is.
- Near Threatened
- No photographs available yet
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