Sahul Sunbird
The Sahul sunbird (Cinnyris frenatus) is a species of bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae that is endemic to Sulawesi eastwards to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It is also found in northeast Australia. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the olive-backed sunbird, now renamed the garden sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis). == Taxonomy == The Sahul sunbird was formally described in 1843 by the German naturalist Salomon Müller based on a specimen collected on the west coast of New Guinea. He coined the binomial name Nectarinia frenata. The specific epithet frenatus is Latin meaning "bridled". The species was subsequently moved to the genus Cinnyris that had been introduced in 1816 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. The Sahul sunbird was formerly considered as a subspecies of the olive-backed sunbird (now the garden sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) but is now treated as a separate species based on the differences in plumage and the mitochondrial DNA sequence. Four subspecies are recognised: C. f. plateni (Blasius, W, 1885) – Talaud Islands (northeast of Sulawesi), Sulawesi and satellites C. f. robustirostris (Mees, 1964) – Banggai Islands and Sula Island (east of Sulawesi) C. f. frenatus (Müller, S, 1843) – Morotai to Obi…
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