Gurney's Sugarbird

Gurney's Sugarbird, Promerops gurneyi is a species of sugarbird in the Promeropidae family. It forms a superspecies with Cape Sugarbird. It is only found in southern Africa.



Taxonomy
The sugarbirds were once classed in Sturnidae (Sibley and Ahlquist, 1974), Meliphagidae (Salomonsen, 1933; Mayr and Amadon, 1951; White, 1963)or Nectariniidae (as Promeropinae, Cheke and Mann, 2001; Sibley and Monroe, 1990) or Turdidae. Linnaeus classified them as Merops, which is now limited to bee-eaters, but was once used for all long-tailed birds.