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An Introduction to the Trochilidę, or Family of Humming-Birds
An Introduction to the Trochilid or Family of HummingBirds Author:John Gould General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Original Publisher: Printed for the author Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where ... more »you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Toxoteuches Yaruqui, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil Hi. p. 11, note. Habitat, Ecuador. " Upper mandible black; lower deep red with a black tip; legs and feet reddish." -- Fraser, Proc. of Zool. Soc. part 28, p. 94. As the last three species advance in age their tails become shorter, their feathers broader, and the white fringing of the lateral ones almost obsolete. 31. Phaethornis Superciliosus. Phaethornis Pretrei Vol. I. PI. XXVIII. Polytmus Cayanensis longicaudus, Briss. Orn. tom. iii. p. 686,13, tab. 35. fig. 5. Trochilus superciliosus. Linn. Syst. Nat. tom. i. p. 139; Lath. Ind. Orn. tom. i. p.302; Wied, Beitr. tom. iv. p.116; " Licht." Nordm. Erm. Reis. All. p. 2,16. Pretrei, Delatt. et Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 20. brasiliensis, Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. tom. iii. p. 708. Phcetornis Pretrei, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 104, Phtetornis, sp. 16, pl. 35; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. tom. i. p. 68, Pfuetornis, sp. 15. Trochilus iflints, Natt. in Mus. Vindob. Phat!wrnis affinis, Pelzeln, Sitz. Acad. Wien, 1857, p. 157- superciliosus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 9. Habitat. Eastern Brazil. As in the case of P. malaris, the above list of synonyms is given on the authority of Dr. Cabanis. 32. Phaethornis Augusti Vol. I. PI. XXIX. Trochilus Augusti, Bourc. Phcetornis Augusta, Gray« less