May 11 2013
I have looked in vain for a name and description of this very familiar species, which is quite as common in our collections as the Thaumatias leucogaster. The only published figure which at all resembles the bird is that given by Lesson, under the appellation of Omhmya albirostris, in his ” Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux …
May 01 2013
This plate is from around 1850, it was then called White-breasted Emerald (Thaumatias candidus) and the information states: The Thaumatias candidus ranges widely over the southern parts of Mexico and Guatemala, and, judging from the number of specimens which have been transmitted to Europe through the instrumentality of De Lattre, Salle, Skinner, and Salvin, it …
May 01 2013
This plate is from around 1850, it was then called White-throat (Leucochloris albicollis) and the information states: The southern part of Brazil alone, so far as we yet know, is the native country of this very pretty and well-marked species, and numerous are the specimens that from time to time are sent to Europe from …
May 01 2013
This plate is from around 1850, it was then called White-breasted Leucippus (Leucippus chionogaster) and the information states: If this bird had been one of the most beautiful, instead of one of the plainest and most modestly attired species of the family, it could scarcely have received a greater degree of attention than has been …
May 01 2013
This plate is from around 1850, it was then called dOcas Amazili (Amazilia Ocai) and the information states: The only example I have yet seen of this very distinct species of Humming-Bird was obtained at Xalapa in Southern Mexico, by M. Rafael Montes d’Oca. I have placed this new bird in the genus Amazilia, because …
May 01 2013
This plate is from around 1850, it was then called Blue-necked Azure-Crown (Cyanomyia cyanicollis) and the information states: The range of the members of the genus Cyanomyia extends over many degrees of latitude, or from Mexico to Peru, but all are inhabitants of temperate regions, none ascending to the snow-line, or descending to the sultry …
May 01 2013
This plate is from around 1850, it was then called Francias Azure-Crown (Cyanomyia francis) and the information states: Of the five or six known species of the genus Cyanomyia the C. Francia may be regarded as the most beautiful, inasmuch as it is characterized by a far greater amount of glittering colour than any of …
May 01 2013
This plate is from around 1850, it was then called Black-billed Azure-crown (Ornismya cyanocephala) and the information states: So great is the confusion which exists respecting the synonymy and species of this form, that I might be held excused were I to give new specific appellations to at least two of them, namely the one …
May 01 2013
This plate is from around 1850 and the information states: I did not expect that so fine a bird as the Cyanomyia violiceps could have remained so long undiscovered in the comparatively well-known country of Mexico; the merit of bringing it at length to light is due to M. Salle, who obtained two specimens at …
May 01 2013
In 1850 this species was called Red-billed Azure-crown (Trochilus quadricolor or Cyanomia quadricolor). I believe I am right in stating that this species is exclusively confined to Mexico, as it is from that country alone that I have seen examples. I make this remark because M. Lesson states, in the Supplement to his History of …
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