''Pycnopygius'' is a genus of bird in the

Meliphagidae The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds. The family includes the Australian chats, myzomelas, friarbirds, wattlebirds, miners and melidectes. They are most common in Australia and New Guinea ...

, or honeyeater, family. Established by

Tommaso Salvadori Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist. Biography Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethelyn Welby, who was English. His ...

in 1880, it contains the following species: *

Marbled honeyeater The marbled honeyeater (''Pycnopygius cinereus'') is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. Distribution and habitat It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests an ...

(''Pycnopygius cinereus'') *

Plain honeyeater The plain honeyeater (''Pycnopygius ixoides'') is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest A forest is an area of land ...

(''Pycnopygius ixoides'') * Streak-headed honeyeater (''Pycnopygius stictocephalus'') The name ''Pycnopygius'' is a combination of the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

words ''puknos'', meaning "thick" or "dense" and ''-pugios'', meaning "-rumped" (from ''pugẽ'': "rump").

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