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The flowerpeckers, once included in an enlarged sunbird family Nectariniidae, are a family, Dicaeidae, of passerine birds.

Dicaeidae, Dicaeum: Greek dikaion supposedly an Indian bird mentioned by Aelianus.

Dicaeum is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia.

The name Dicaeum is from the Ancient Greek dikaion. Cuvier claimed that this was a word for a very small Indian bird.

1/ Plain flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum)
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2/ Fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus)
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3/ Scarlet-Backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum)
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4/ Thick-billed flowerpecker (Dicaeum agile) 
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5/ Yellow-vented flowerpecker (Dicaeum chrysorrheum)
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