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The Legge's flowerpecker or white-throated flowerpecker (''Dicaeum vincens'') is a small passerine bird. It is an endemic resident breeder in Sri Lanka. It is named after the Australian ornithologist William Vincent Legge.〔Beolens, Bo & Michael Watkins (2003) ''Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds'', Christopher Helm, London.〕 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. This is a very small, stout flowerpecker, 10 cm in length, with a short tail, short thick curved bill and tubular tongue. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in its diet, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken. The male Legge's flowerpecker has blue-black upperparts, a white throat and upper breast, and yellow lower breast and belly. The female is duller, with olive-brown upperparts. ==In Culture== In Sri Lanka, this bird is known as ''Lanka Pilachcha'' in Sinhala Language.This bird appears in a one rupee Sri Lankan postal stamp.〔http://www.birdtheme.org/country/srilanka.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Legge's flowerpecker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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