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Species of bird
The metallic-winged sunbird (Aethopyga pulcherrima ) is a
species of
bird in the family
Nectariniidae . It is
endemic to the
Philippines .
Its natural
habitats are
subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forests and subtropical or tropical moist
montane forests .
Taxonomy
The metallic-winged sunbird was
formally described in 1876 by the English ornithologist
Richard Bowdler Sharpe based on specimens collected on the island of
Basilan by members of an expedition to the Philippines led by the American ornithologist
Joseph Beal Steere . Sharpe coined the
binomial name Aethopyga pulcherrima ,
[2]
[3] where the specific epithet is from
Latin pulcherrimus meaning "very beautiful".
[4]
Three
subspecies are recognised:
[5]
A. p. pulcherrima
Sharpe , 1876 –
Eastern Visayas and
Mindanao group (central, south Philippines)
A. p. jefferyi (
Ogilvie-Grant , 1894) – montane
Luzon (north Philippines, formerly considered as a separate species, the Luzon sunbird)
A. p. decorosa (McGregor, 1907) –
Bohol (central south Philippines, formerly considered as a separate species, the Bohol sunbird)
References
^ BirdLife International (2018).
"Aethopyga pulcherrima " .
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 : e.T22718065A131982594.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22718065A131982594.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021 .
^
Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1876).
"Prof. Steere's expedition to the Philippines" . Nature . 14 (353): 297–298.
Bibcode :
1876Natur..14..297S .
doi :
10.1038/014297a0 .
^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986).
Check-List of Birds of the World . Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 272.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010).
The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 324.
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^
Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David;
Rasmussen, Pamela , eds. (December 2023).
"Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds" . IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 February 2024 .