Metallic-winged sunbird

==Description and taxonomy==

==Description and taxonomy==

Ebird describes it as "A small bird with a fairly long, curved bill of lowland and foothill forest and forest edge in the Philippines. Male has bluish-green iridescence on the forehead, cheek, and shoulder, and a yellow throat and chest with an orange smudge. Female is washed-out yellow below with a whitish throat. Similar to [[Lina's sunbird|Lina's Sunbird]], but male has a shorter, rounded green tail and olive rather than blue flight feathers, and the female lacks the gray head, streaked chest, and reddish belly. Female also similar to female [[Handsome sunbird|Handsome Sunbird]], but has a dark green tail. Voice includes a high-pitched jumbled song and an upslurred, high-pitched "chuit!"

The metallic-winged sunbird was [[Species description|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'',{{cite journal | last1=Sharpe | first1=R. Bowdler | author1-link=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | date=1876 | title=Prof. Steere's expedition to the Philippines | journal=Nature | volume=14 | issue=353 | pages=297–298 | doi=10.1038/014297a0 | bibcode=1876Natur..14..297S | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18571167 }}{{cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1986 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=12 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=272 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482389 }} where the specific epithet is from [[Latin]] ''pulcherrimus'' meaning "very beautiful".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=324 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n324/mode/1up }}

The metallic-winged sunbird was [[Species description|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'',{{cite journal | last1=Sharpe | first1=R. Bowdler | author1-link=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | date=1876 | title=Prof. Steere's expedition to the Philippines | journal=Nature | volume=14 | issue=353 | pages=297–298 | doi=10.1038/014297a0 | bibcode=1876Natur..14..297S | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18571167 }}{{cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1986 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=12 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=272 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482389 }} where the specific epithet is from [[Latin]] ''pulcherrimus'' meaning "very beautiful".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=324 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n324/mode/1up }}