Grey-breasted sabrewing

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Grey-breasted sabrewing
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Grey-breasted sabrewing in Ecuador.

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Campylopterus
Species:
C. largipennis
Binomial name
Campylopterus largipennis
(Boddaert, 1783)
Campylopterus largipennis map.svg

The grey-breasted sabrewing (Campylopterus largipennis) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

It is found in humid forest in the Guianas and the Amazon Basin with a smaller disjunct population (subspecies diamantinensis) in forest and woodland in Bahia and Minas Gerais in eastern Brazil.

A relatively large hummingbird with grey underparts and broad white tail-tips, it is generally common.

Taxonomy[]

The grey-breasted sabrewing was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana.[2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[3] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Trochilus largipennis in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[4] The grey-breasted sabrewing is now placed in the genus Campylopterus that was erected by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1827.[5][6] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek kampulos meaning "curved" or "bent" and -pteros meaning "-winged". The specific epithet largipennis combines the Latin largus meaning "ample" and -pennis meaning "-winged".[7]

Subspecies[]

Three subspecies are recognised:[6]

  • C. l. largipennis (Boddaert, 1783) – east Venezuela, the Guianas, north Brazil
  • C. l. obscurus Gould, 1848 – northeast Brazil[8]
  • C. l. aequatorialis Gould, 1861 – east Colombia and northwest Brazil to north Bolivia

The Diamantina sabrewing (Campylopterus diamantinensis) was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the grey-breasted sabrewing.[6][8]

References[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Campylopterus largipennis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1780). "L'oiseau-mouche à larges tuyaux". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Volume 11. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. p. 48. |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Oiseau-mouche à larges tuyaux, de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Volume 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 672 Fig. 2. |volume= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 41, Number 672 Fig. 2.
  5. ^ Swainson, William John (1827). "On several groups and forms in ornithology, not hitherto defined". Zoological Journal. 3: 343–363 [358].
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  7. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 87, 219. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Lopes, L.E.; De Vasconcelos, M.F.; Gonzaga, L.P. (2017). "A cryptic new species of hummingbird of the Campylopterus largipennis complex (Aves: Trochilidae)". Zootaxa. 4268 (1): 1–33. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4268.1.1.

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