Honeysucker

Mimeta is figured and described as a honeysucker in the costly "Voyage de l'Astrolabe," under the name of Philedon bouruensis! ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

One of these is a honeysucker named Tropidorhynchus bouruensis, and the other a kind of oriole, which has been called Mimeta bouruensis. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The oriole resembles the honeysucker in the following particulars: the upper and under surfaces of the two birds are exactly of the same tints of dark and light brown; the ❋ Unknown (2004)

Morty island has a peculiar kingfisher, honeysucker, and starling; ❋ Unknown (2004)

The other sunbird commonly seen in hill-gardens is one appropriately named the tiny sun bird or honeysucker (_Arachnecthra minima_), being less than two-thirds the size of a sparrow. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

It was not more than four feet above her head, but she lay so still and motionless that a jewelled honeysucker came and hovered over the flowers, darting from one to another like a many-coloured flash. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Thus Morty island has a peculiar kingfisher, honeysucker, and starling; Ternate has a ground-thrush (Pitta) and ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

"During the river voyage we saw now and then single green-coloured kingfishers flying about, and a honeysucker or two, but they were not nearly so numerous as might have been expected in this purely tropical zone. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

Man that [honeysucker] [smells] [rancid]! ❋ Big CB (2015)