Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Picariœ, Upupœ and Trochili, by O. Salvin. Coraciœ, of the families Cypselidœ, Caprimulgidœ, Podargidœ, and Steatornithidœ, by E. Hartertorder of the Trustees, 1892 - Birds |
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abdomen Adult female Adult male Arcé Aufz band Berl bill black bird blackish Bolivia Bourc Brazil breast British Museum bronzy green brown buff Caen Caprimulgus central rectrices Colombia colour Consp Costa Rica crown Cypselus darker dusky Ecuador Buckley edged Elliot Enum Eudes-Desl feathers glittering green Gould Coll Gray grey greyish Guatemala Guiana Hand-l Heine Hist Hume Coll Ibis inches Intr lateral rectrices Lawr Linn Lyon mandible maxilla Mexico Muls Museum Ois.-Mouches Ornismya outer pale Peru Polytmus Reich rufous rump Salv Salvin-Godman & Gould Salvin-Godman Coll Sclater Coll Sept Sharpe Coll shining grass-green shining green species specimens steel-blue subterminal Syst Tacz tail tail-coverts throat glittering tipped with white Total length Troch Trochilus Tweeddale Coll Upper surface shining upper tail-coverts Venezuela Verr Vieill whitish wing wing-coverts xxii Zool
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Page 570 - ... the exposed ends of the feathers being but little mottled give quite a light appearance to the under plumage; lower part of the abdomen and under tailcoverts dull pale rufous, the feathers of the latter with dark markings along their shafts ; sides under the wings dull rufous narrowly barred with dark brown ; under wing-coverts brown mottled with rufous; tarsi clothed in front with rufous brown feathers; the bill is light brown, black at the point, and having very strong bristles, some of which...
Page 233 - Sapphironia luminosa. Upper plumage glittering grass-green, inclining to golden on the rump, the crown not so bright and of a very deep green ; entire under surface of a very brilliant bluish green, the sides of the neck golden orange ; tail forked and of a rich steel blue, the two middle feathers green like the rump, the next feather bronzed on the outer web at the end ; wings dull purple ; under tail-coverts deep green, very narrowly edged with bluish-white, thighs clothed with greyish white feathers...
Page 213 - Crown of head, neck, back, tipper wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts, dull bronzy green. Wings purple, base of primaries and secondaries blackish. Throat, sides of neck, and breast glittering grass-green ; lower part of flanks and abdomen very dark chestnut brown; under tail-coverts cinnamon. Tail bright chestnut, tips and edges of both webs bluish black, most extensive on lateral feathers, reaching on outer webs nearly to their base. Maxilla black, mandible black with a slight indication of fleshcolor...
Page 140 - ... deep vinous bronzy-crimson, most in extent on the short central feathers, the long outer feather on each side ends with obscure bronzy-green ; the outer edge of lateral feather is buff for three-quarters of its length from base, this colour occupying only about one third of the web. The undersurface of the tail is steel-blue, bronzy at the ends of the feathers ; the shafts of the two long lateral feathers are whitish at base for about half their length. Wings brownishpurple. Throat brilliant...
Page 243 - ... blue ; flanks shining grass-green. Lower part of abdomen covered by fluffy white feathers. Under tail-coverts metallic green. Wings purple. Tail bluish black. Maxilla black ; mandible yellow (in life possibly red) for its entire length, save the tip, which is black. Feet brownish black. Thighs huffy white.
Page 569 - Journ. f. Orn. Jan. 1856, p. 6. Adult male. Upper plumage dark ash, minutely mottled with dull rufous and grey, the feathers conspicuously marked with longitudinal stripes of black in their centres ; a line extends from the bill over the eye and along the crown of greyish white, tinged with pale rufous and intermixed with black ; the tertiaries ochraccous-white, beautifully variegated with black, and having near the end of each feather an irregular patch of velvety black ; wing-coverts the same color...
Page 69 - A single male specimen in the Gould Collection is the only one I have seen of this bird. It is very richly coloured, and though differing obviously from P.
Page 218 - Adult. Crown of the head dark metallic grass-green ; upper surface shining grass-green, lighter than the head ; upper tail-coverts golden bronze. Throat, breast, abdomen, and flanks metallic grassgreen ; a light mouse-coloured spot on the lower part of the abdomen. Thighs white, feathers fluffy. Under tail-coverts dark bronzy brown edged with white. Wings dark puqjle.