Green and white amazily

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Green and white amazily
Green-and-white hummingbird feeding.JPG

Green and white macilia ( Elliotomyia viridicauda )

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Amazilia hummingbirds ( Amazilia )
Type : Green and white amazily
Scientific name
Elliotomyia viridicauda
( Berlepsch , 1883)

The green-and-white amazilie ( Elliotomyia viridicauda ) or Berlepschamazilie is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The range of this endemic species includes the east in Peru . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The green and white amazily reaches a body length of about 11 centimeters, with the slightly curved beak making up about 2.7 centimeters. The top is light metallic green with a golden-bronze shimmer. The flanks are speckled green. The middle area of ​​the underside is white from the chin to the cloaca . The top of the tail is dull green-gray, the underside of which are often on the outer tail feathers mottled white. In contrast to the very similar white-bellied amazily ( Amazilia chionogaster ), the base of the tail feathers is never white. There is no gender dimorphism .

Vocalizations

The call sounds like tsi tzi tziu, twi , which they utter in sequences of five to six tones and which last about two seconds. The tones can alternatively sound like tsit tsiit tsew-tsew-tsew , with the second sound sounding particularly intense.

habitat

Distribution area (green) of the green and white amazilie

This species of hummingbird occurs on the eastern flanks of the Peruvian Andes at altitudes of 1000 to 2750 meters, often in the treetops of moist forests and on the edges of forests. They are probably more associated with moist forests and replace the white-bellied amazil, which prefers a drier and more open habitat .

behavior

Not much is known about their behavior. Often they sit chirping on branches of the bush.

Reproduction

In Cushi in the Pachitea province they were seen building their nests in July. In January they were seen brooding on a nest in Cusco .

Etymology and history of research

Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch described the green and white macilia under the name Leucippus viridicauda . The type specimen came from Huiro in the province of Dos de Mayo in the HuánucoHuánuco region and was collected by Henry Whitely . For a long time the species was classified under the new genus name Amazilia, introduced by Lesson in 1843 . John Todd Zimmer had added the green and white amazily to this genus. This name comes from a novel by Jean-François Marmontel , who reported in Les Incas, Ou La Destruction De L'empire Du Pérou, about an Inca heroine named Amazili. 2017 Frank Garfield Stiles III , James Vanderbeek Remsen Jr and Jimmy Adair McGuire separated the species from the genus and placed the species in the genus Elliotia . They convey that the name Elliotia was used as early as 1856 by Johannes Werner Theodor Nietner for Elliotia pallipes (today Pentagonica pallipes ) and was dedicated to Walter Elliot (1803-1887). Stiles and van Remsen corrected the generic name in Elliotomyia in 2019 . »Elliotomyia« is a tribute to Daniel Giraud Elliot with the Greek addition »myia, μυια « for »fly, to fly«. The specific epithet »viridicauda« is composed of the Latin words »viridis« for »green« and »cauda« for »tail«.

literature

  • Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch: Description of six new species of birds from Southern and Central America . In: The Ibis . Series 5, volume 1 , no. 38 , 1893, p. 487-494 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Jon Fjeldså , Niels Krabbe : Birds of the High Andes: A Manual to the Birds of the Temperate Zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America . Apollo Books, Stenstrup 1990, ISBN 87-88757-16-1 .
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • René Primevère Lesson : Complément à l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches . In: L'Echo du Monde Savant . Series 2, volume 10 , no. 32 , 1843, pp. 755-758 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • René Primevère Lesson, Prosper Garnot: Voyage autour du monde exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère et conformément aux instructions de SEM Marquis de Clermont- Tonnerre, ministre de la marine; et publié sou les auspices de son excellence Mgr le Cte ​​de Chabrol, ministre de la Marine et des colonies, par ML Dupppery, capitaine de frégate. chevalier de Saint-Louis et membre de la legion d'honaire, commandant de l'expédition . tape 1 : Zoology , No. 2 . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1828 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Johannes Werner Theodor Nietner: Entomological papers — being descriptions of new Ceylon Coleoptera, with such observations on their habits as may appear interesting . In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . tape 25 , no. 6 , 1856, pp. 523-554 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Thomas Scott Schulenberg, Douglas Forrester Stotz, Daniel Franklin Lane, John Patton O'Neill, Theodore Albert Parker III : Birds of Peru . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2007, ISBN 978-0-7136-8673-9 .
  • Frank Garfield Stiles III, James Vanderbeek Remsen Jr, Jimmy Adair McGuire: The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny . In: Zootaxa . tape 4353 , no. 3 , 2017, p. 401-424 , doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4353.3.1 .
  • Frank Garfield Stiles III, James Vanderbeek Remsen Jr .: The generic nomenclature of the Trochilini: a correction . In: Zootaxa . tape 4691 , no. 2 , 2019, p. 195–196 , doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4691.2.10 .
  • John Todd Zimmer : Studies of Peruvian birds. No. 59, The genera Polytmus, Leucippus, and Amazilia . In: American Museum novitates . No. 1475 , 1950, pp. 1–27 (English, digitallibrary.amnh.org [PDF; 2.5 MB ]).

Web links

Commons : Green and White Amazonia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jon Fjeldså u. a., p. 249.
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Scott Schulenberg u. a., p. 228.
  3. ↑ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch, p. 493.
  4. ↑ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch, p. 494.
  5. ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1843), column 757.
  6. ↑ John Todd Zimmer, p. 10.
  7. ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1827), p. 683 (plate 3).
  8. ↑ Frank Garfield Stiles III (2017) and a. Pp. 401-424
  9. ↑ Johannes Werner Theodor Nietner (2017) a. a. Pp. 524-526
  10. ↑ Frank Garfield Stiles III (2019) and a. Pp. 195-196.
  11. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 403.