Myza

For the Myza Bridge and the Myza Railway Station in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, see Prioksky City District.

Myza is a genus of bird in the family Meliphagidae. Established by Adolf Bernhard Meyer and Lionel William Wiglesworth in 1895, it contains the following species:^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Myza celebensis	Dark-eared myza	island of Sulawesi in Indonesia
	Myza sarasinorum	White-eared myza	Sulawesi in Indonesia

Myza
White-eared myza (Myza sarasinorum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Meliphagidae
Genus:	Myza A. B. Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1895
Type species
Myza sarasinorum[1] A.B. Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1895

The name Myza comes from the Greek word muzaō, meaning "to suck".^[3]