Lovely Sunbird

Lovely Sunbird / Aethopyga shelleyi

Lovely Sunbird

Here the details of the Lovely Sunbird named bird below:

SCI Name:  Aethopyga shelleyi
Protonym:  Aethopyga shelleyi Nature 14 p.297
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Nectariniidae /
Taxonomy Code:  lovsun1
Type Locality:  Palawan.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1876
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

AETHOPYGA
(Nectariniidae; Ϯ Crimson Sunbird A. siparaja) Gr. αιθος aithos  fire, burning heat; πυγη pugē  rump; "Gen. AETHOPYGA nov. gen. **) Feuerhonigsauger.   562.  1. A. siparaja Nob. —  ***)  Certhia siparaja Raffl. Trans. Lin. Soc. XIII. p. 299.  Nectarinia mystacalis Temm. Pl. col. 126. fig. 3.   ...   563.  2. A. eximia Nob.— Nectarinia eximia Horsf. (nec Temm.) Trans. Lin. Soc. XIII. p. 181. Nectarinia Kuhlii Temm. Pl. col. 376. fig. 1. 2.   ...   564.  3. A. nipalensis Nob. — Cinnyris nipalensis Hodgs. Jnd. Rev. 1837. p. 273. — Nectarinia nipalensis Jard. Sun Birds tab. 27.   ...   **) Von αιθος, feuerfarbig und πυγη, Steiss    Mit mittelmässigem, etwas hakig gekrümmtem Schnabel und verlängerten mittlern Schwanzfedern; Gefieder brennend gefärbt.    ***) Der auf Borneo und Malacca vorkommende, mit siparaja identificirte Vogel ist verschieden: A. eupogon n. sp.   ...   Als Arten gehören ferner hierher:  1. A. miles. — Cinnyris miles Hodgs. — 2. A. goalpariensis. — Nect. goalpariensis Jard. — 3. A. ignicauda. — Cinnyris ignicauda Hodgs. — 4. A. saturata. — Cinnyris saturata Hodgs; N. Hodgsonii Jard. — 5. A. Gouldae. — Nectarinia Gouldae Vig. — 6. A. Horsfieldi. — Nectarinia Horsfieldii Blyth. — 7. A. Temminckii. — Nectarinia Temminckii Müll." (Cabanis 1853); "Aethopyga Cabanis, 1851 [=1853], Mus. Hein., 1, p. 103. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 19), Certhia siparaja Raffles." (Rand in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 270).
Var. Aithopyga.
Synon. Duyvena, Eudrepanis, Philippinia, Urodrepanis.

aethopyga / aethopygus
Gr. αιθος aithos  fire, burning heat; -πυγος -pugos  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

shelleyi
● Capt. George Ernest Shelley (1840-1910) British Army, geologist, ornithologist, collector in South Africa, Egypt, the Sudan, Australia and Burma (Aethopyga, syn. Apus niansae, Bubo, subsp. Caprimulgus pectoralis, syn. Chlorocichla flavicollis flavigula, Cinnyris, syn. Coccyzus minor, syn. Crithagra sulphurata sharpii, Cryptospiza, syn. Eubucco bourcierii aequatorialis, syn. Eubucco bourcierii orientalis, Lamprotornis, Nesocharis, syn. Onychognathus morio, Passer, syn. Ploceus velatus, subsp. Riparia riparia, subsp. Streptopelia decipiens, subsp. Trachyphonus erythrocephalus).
● Sir Edward Shelley 4th Baronet Shelley of Castle Goring (1827-1890) English traveller, collector in Matabeleland 1873 (syn. Myrmecocichla arnotti, Scleroptila).