Flores Sea Sunbird

It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the olive-backed sunbird, now renamed the garden sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis). The Flores Sea sunbird was formally described in 1893 by the Swiss zoologist Johann Büttikofer based on a specimen that had been collected by the Dutch botanist Johannes Elias Teijsmann. Büttikofer placed it with the sunbirds in the genus Cinnyris and coined the binomial name Cinnyris teysmanni where the specific epithet was chosen to honour the collector. (Wikipedia, general species account).

Flores Sea Sunbird belongs to bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae that is found on several small islands in the Flores Sea. Büttikofer believed that his specimen had been obtained near the port of Makassar in Sulawesi but this was an error as this species does not occur there and in 1896 the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert designated the island of Tanah Jampea in the Flores Sea as the type locality. (Wikipedia, general species account).