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  • 1 Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 116, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA . user@example.com
Zootaxa, 2019 Oct 17;4686(4):zootaxa.4686.4.1.
PMID: 31719467 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.4.1

Abstract

The enigmatic 'Spectacled Flowerpecker'-a probable new bird species from the island of Borneo-was first sighted in the Danum Valley of Sabah, Malaysia in 2009. However, the absence of a holotype specimen has prevented its formal scientific description. Since then only a handful of reports from widely disparate localities across the island have emerged, all from lowland sites and often in close association with fruiting mistletoe. Here, we report the long-awaited capture of a specimen of this putative new species and confirm its morphological and molecular distinctiveness as a novel species in the genus Dicaeum.

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