Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)

Vigors's Sunbird (Aethopyga vigorsii) - HBW 13, p. 313

French: Souimanga de Vigors German: Vigorsnektarvogel Spanish: Suimanga de Vigors
Other common names: (Vigors’s) Yellow-backed Sunbird, Western Crimson Sunbird

Taxonomy: Cinnyris vigorsii Sykes, 1832, Western Ghats, Deccan, India.
Forms a superspecies with A. siparaja, and often treated as conspecific. Proposed race concolor (described from W Deccan) appears to be undiagnosable. Monotypic.

Distribution: NW Maharashtra (W Satpuras) and Western Ghats (from R Narmada S at least to Goa area), in W India.