Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae) - HBW 13

Olive-crowned Flowerpecker (Dicaeum pectorale)

French: Dicée à plastron German: Papuamistelfresser Spanish: Picaflores Pectoral
Other common names: Pectoral/Shining/Papuan Flowerpecker

Taxonomy: Dicaeum pectorale S. Müller, 1843, Lobo, Triton Bay, New Guinea.
Forms a superspecies with D. nehrkorni, D. erythrothorax, D. vulneratum, D. geelvinkianum, D. nitidum, D. eximium and D. aeneum. Could perhaps be considered conspecific with D. geelvinkianum and/or D. nitidum. Race ignotum, although geographically situated between nominate race and D. erythrothorax, is not intermediate in plumage, suggesting that treatment of latter and present species as two distinct species is appropriate. Two subspecies recognized.

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