The Taxonomy and Biogeography of the Thick-billed Flowerpecker Complex in Borneo

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Abstract
The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology expedition to Sabah, East Malaysia (North Borneo) collected specimens and field data on Brown-backed Flowerpeckers (Dicaeum everetti) and Thick-billed Flowerpeckers (D. agile) in 1982 and 1983. Dicaeum agile had not been known from Borneo previously, and its presence there changes the biogeographic assumptions Salomonsen (1960) used to classify the "thick-billed" flowerpeckers. Salomonsen's D. everetti was found to be a valid species, but his splitting of the Philippine Striped Flowerpecker (D. aeruginosum) from D. agile was not justified. Dicaeum agile of Borneo is here placed in the race remotum with the Malayan form of the species. The Bornean and Malayan races of D. everetti are grouped in the subspecies everetti.

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