Summary[edit] Description: Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda (Hodgson). Date: between 1850 and 1854. Source: Birds of Asia, Vol. 2 pl. 28 (as Nectarinia ignicauda, Fiery-tailed Sun-bird). Author: John Gould & Henry C. Richter. Permission (Reusing this file): pd-old.