Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

Scarlet-naped Myzomela (Myzomela lafargei) - HBW 13, p. 651

French: Myzomèle à nuque rouge German: Scharlachnacken-Honigfresser Spanish: Mielero Nuquirrojo
Other common names: (Small) Bougainville/Scarlet-naped/Red-naped/Red-crowned Honeyeater, (Small) Bougainville/Red-naped/Red-capped Myzomela

Taxonomy: Myzomela lafargei Pucheran, 1853, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands.
Forms a superspecies with M. pammelaena, M. melanocephala, M. eichhorni, M. malaitae and M. tristrami, and formerly suggested that all may be conspecific; this group possibly closely related to the M. cardinalis superspecies. Monotypic.

Distribution: Buka, Bougainville, Shortland Is, Choiseul (and Arnavon I) and Santa Isabel (and Malakobi and Megapode), in N Solomon Is.