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Anthracothorax viridigula (1 Viewer)
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l_raty
laurent raty
Boddaert is messy and often not easy to understand.
The small "o"'s that are everywhere in his entries (but easily overlooked) mean "not present in the classification of this author". Thus, here:
The small "o"'s that are everywhere in his entries (but easily overlooked) mean "not present in the classification of this author". Thus, here:
= the bird is that which is on Planche enluminée #671, fig. 1 https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35219167
= what Buffon made of this bird -- https://books.google.com/books?id=iwMGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA77 (Boddaert used the in-8° edition of Buffon, as opposed to Gmelin who used the in-4°, so they always have different volume/page numbers.)
= that bird falls in genus Mellisuga in Brisson's classification, which Brisson addressed in vol. 3 of his work https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35953821, but Brisson did not list it.
= the species name according to Boddaert in Linnaeus' classification; the bird falls in genus #66 in this classification (12th edition: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946385 - this is indeed Trochilus), but Linnaeus did not list it. The species name was coined by Boddaert himself.
= what Latham made of this bird -- https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33727409
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Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Martin, I assume Boodaert's reference (and OD) of "Trochilus viridigula, LINN. Gen. 66", in the 1783 work, aims only at the Generic name Trochilus (Richmond card, here), as in; Genera No. 66. TROCHILUS (in Linnaeus' Systema naturae, 12th Ed., 1766 (here), i.e. No. 60 (in Linnaeus' Systema naturae, 10th Ed., 1758 (here alt. here).
Compare with the preceding species in Boddaert's 1783 work "Certhia violacea, LINN. Gen. 65.", that takes us to Genera No. 65 CERTHIA, on p.184, in the same work/edition of Linnaeus (1766).
If not; I have no idea.
/B
PS. Ooups! Laurent's reply (with a similar conclusion), wasn't posted when I started to type. Sorry for cross-posting.
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Taphrospilus
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Thank you both. Indeed this explains my question. You made my day.:flyaway:
P.S.
I assume Colibri à queue violette #671, fig. 2 is a female Anthracothorax viridigula. Correct?
P.S.
I assume Colibri à queue violette #671, fig. 2 is a female Anthracothorax viridigula. Correct?
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l_raty
laurent raty
I'd go with that. And viridigula a juv.?
Buffon describes the central breast stripe of his C. à gorge violette as "brun mêlé de vert" (brown mixed with green), thus in any case not velvet black as you'd expect in nigricollis.
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