Bocage's Sunbird

SCI Name:  Nectarinia bocagii
Protonym:  Nectarinia bocagii Monogr.Nectarin. pt9-10 p.21 pl.6 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Nectariniidae / Nectarinia
Taxonomy Code:  bocsun2
Type Locality:  Angola; type from Caconda, cf. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 683.
Author:  Shelley
Publish Year:  1879
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

NECTARINIA
(Nectariniidae; Ϯ Malachite Sunbird N. famosa) L. nectar, nectaris  nectar  < Gr. νεκταρ nektar, νεκταρος nektaros  nectar; “GENUS 20. NECTARINIA (Nectar florum haurientes) (Honigvogel Germ. Sucrier, Guitguit Gall.)  Rostrum vel elongatum vel mediocre, gracile, modice incurvum, teretiusculum, trigonum, apice acutissimum, tomiis intractis, versus apicem saepius subtilissime incisulo-fimbriatis, maxillaribus mandibularia amplectentibus. Gonys mandibulae duas certe partes aequans, gnathidiis ea brevioribus, angulo mentali rotundato.  Nares in maxillae basi sitae, membrana fornicali superne semiclausae, rima longitudinali versus tomium apertae.  Lingua jaculatoria, tubulosa, apice fibrosa.  Alae mediocres, remigum primorum primae breviores.  Caudae rectrices haud rigidae, apice rotundatae.  Pedes ambulatorii, mediocres, congrui, nudi.  Unguis posticus ungue medio paullo major.  Acropodia scutulata.   Species: Certhia famosa, violacea, caerulea (et Cayana) Lin.” (Illiger 1811); "Nectarinia Illiger, 1811, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium, p. 210. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, ed. 1, p. 12), Certhia famosa Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1967, XII, 222).
Var. Nectarina, Nectarinea, Noctarinia.
Synon. Rhyndace, Sclaterornis, Sovimanga.

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Prof. José Vicente Barboza du Bocage (1823-1907) Portuguese ornithologist, father of Angolan ornithology (Amaurocichla, subsp. Anthus cinnamomeus, Nectarinia).