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==Description== The flamecrest is a small [[passerine|perching bird]], resembling a [[warbler]]. Its length is only {{convert|9|cm|in|round=0.5|abbr=on}} and weight about 7 g,<ref>{{cite journal|journal= Global Ecology and Biogeography|year= 2005| volume= 14 |issue= 4|pages=299β306 |doi= 10.1111/j.1466-822x.2005.00159.x| title= Energy flux, body size and density in relation to bird species richness along an elevational gradient in Taiwan|author=Ding, Tzung-Su|author2=Hsiao-Wei Yuan|author3= Shu Geng|author4=Yao-Sung Lin|author5=Pei-Fen Lee|name-list-style=amp| url= http://www.aseanbiodiversity.info/Abstract/51010220.pdf| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063049/http://www.aseanbiodiversity.info/Abstract/51010220.pdf| url-status= usurped| archive-date= 4 March 2016}}</ref> making it the smallest of all Taiwan's endemic bird species, and the smallest and most colourful member of its family in the world. The top of its head is yellow and orange, with black crown stripes. White feathers encircling the black eye-patches give it the appearance of having two [[black eye]]s. The most distinguishing characteristic is the orange-yellow crest on top of the head, for which it is named.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://archive.org/stream/bulletinofb1620190507brit#page/n147/mode/1up|author=Ogilvie-Grant, W R| year =1906 | journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | volume=16 |page= 122|title= 125th meeting, 20 June 1906}}</ref><!-- need to fix the citation info --> Females have the crown stripe pure yellow while males have an orange centre to it. When excited the male erects the crest. The supercilium is very broad and the lores and forehead are whitish. There is a narrow short black malar stripe. The chin is whitish and the throat, ear-coverts and sides of neck are grey. The mantle is green while the rump and flanks are yellow. The centre of the belly is buff. The wings have broad white covert tips forming a wing bar. The tarsi are pinkish. They have a high-pitched ''see-see-see'' call and the song consists of a series of high notes.<ref>{{cite book|page=388|title=Birds of East Asia|author=Brazil, Mark|publisher=London: Christopher Helm |year=2009}}</ref>
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