Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)

Yellow-vented Flowerpecker (Dicaeum chrysorrheum) - HBW 13, p. 373

French: Dicée cul-d’or German: Gelbsteiß-Mistelfresser Spanish: Picaflores Pechiestriado

Taxonomy: Dicaeum chrysorrheum Temminck, 1829, Java.
Proposed race intensum (from Sikkim, in N India) considered a synonym of chrysochlore. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • chrysochlore Blyth, 1843 - Himalayan foothills from C Nepal E to NE India (Assam, S to Mizo Hills), E Bangladesh (Chittagong Hills), Myanmar, S China (W & SE Yunnan) and Indochina, and S to C peninsular Thailand (Isthmus of Kra).
  • chrysorrheum Temminck, 1829 - S Thailand (S of Isthmus of Kra) S to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Java (including Madura I) and Bali.

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