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Sinharaja, Sri Lanka

Dicaeum vincens

[edit] Identification

10cm. Short tail, short thick curved bill and tubular tongue, blue-black upperparts, white throat and upper breast, yellow lower breast and belly. The female is duller, with olive-brown upperparts.

[edit] Distribution

Sri Lanka.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens.

[edit] Behaviour

Two eggs are laid in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree.

The diet includes nectar, berries, spiders and insects.

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