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Dicaeum ignipectus
TAXONOMY
Myzante ignipectus Blyth, 1843, Nepal and Bhutan. Seven subspecies.
OTHER COMMON NAMES
English: Buff-bellied flowerpecker; French: Dicйe а gorge feu; German: Feuerbrust-Mistelfresser; Spanish: Pica Flor de Lomo Verde.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
3.5 in (8.9 cm); 0.14–0.28 oz (4–8 g). Black crown and upperparts with dark brown cheek, scarlet breast, and buff throat and belly.
DISTRIBUTION
D. i. apo: Mindanao and Negros; D. i. beccarii: Sumatra; D. i. bonga: Samar in the Philippines; D. i. cambodianum: Cambodia, northeast and southeast Thailand; D. i. dolichorhynchum: peninsular Malaysia; D. i. formosum: Taiwan; D. i. ignipectum: Kashmir, northeast India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, northern Myanmar, northern Indochina, southern China, southeast Tibet.
HABITAT
Montane forests, oak woodlands, rhododendrons, and cultivations up to 12,950 ft (3,950 m).
BEHAVIOR
Active at tops of trees. Joins parties and mixed-species flocks in nonbreeding season.
FEEDING ECOLOGY AND DIET
Nectar, fruits and berries of mistletoes, insects, and spiders.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY
Two or three white eggs are laid in a purse-shaped nest made of vegetable material including rootlets, grass, and moss kept together with cobwebs and suspended in a tree 10–29 ft (3–9 m) up.
CONSERVATION STATUS
Not threatened.
SIGNIFICANCE TO HUMANS
None known.

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