| Legge's flowerpecker | |
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| A male on the grounds of the Blue Magpie Lodge, Sri Lanka | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Dicaeidae |
| Genus: | Dicaeum |
| Species: | D. vincens
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| Binomial name | |
| Dicaeum vincens (Sclater, PL, 1872)
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Legge's flowerpecker (Dicaeum vincens) or the white-throated flowerpecker, is a small passerine bird. It is an endemic resident breeder in Sri Lanka. It is named after the Australian ornithologist William Vincent Legge.[2]
The Legge's flowerpecker is a common resident breeding bird of forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens. Two eggs are laid in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Dicaeum vincens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22717490A94535215. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22717490A94535215.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo & Michael Watkins (2003) Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds, Christopher Helm, London.