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美洲蜂鸟属

Amazilia pristina

Amazilia pristina

Amazili

Pl. 303, Vol. V · p.303 · 1861 · Gould's Hummingbirds · · 1849-1887

中文名
美洲蜂鸟属
学名
Amazilia pristina
合集
古尔德蜂鸟图谱
绘者
John Gould(约翰·古尔德)
年代
1861
图版号
Pl. 303, Vol. V
原书页码
p.303
授权
CC0 1.0 Universal (Public domain)

十观

  • 纵幅 2.16∶1

第一眼

论画以形似,见与儿童邻。

—— 宋·苏轼《书鄢陵王主簿所画折枝》

只求画得像,是小孩的眼光。苏轼不是不要形似,是说形似之后还有一层:神。这一幅是竖的:眼睛从下往上走,落点在中段那只鸟身上。先别急着看羽毛,让姿态先立起来。第二步凑近一寸:看线与色的交界,色有没有压住线,线有没有断。第三步,把视线放到最深的那一小块:整幅的用色秩序,都是从那里排开的。

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关于本图版

这幅图版出自《古尔德蜂鸟图谱》(Gould's Hummingbirds),由约翰·古尔德绘制,1849—1887 年间出版。画面主体是美洲蜂鸟(Amazilia pristina),归入蜂鸟科(Trochilidae)。

全编共收录 421 幅图版,本图是其中一幅,原书将其列为 Pl. 303, Vol. V,见第 303 页,版式为纵幅。图为公有领域原件的修复扫描,构图与设色未经改动。

原书文字(英文 / 法文)

The neighbourhood of Lima in Peru

In his description of this species, Lesson says, “Peru, like Brazil, possesses Humming-birds peculiarly its own,” and adds, “the name given to this bird will not only recall to our imagination one of the heroines celebrated by Marmontel in his ‘Incas,’ but also the country in which it lives.”

It is, indeed, peculiar to Peru, and is exceedingly common in the neighbourhood of the far-famed city of the Sun—Lima. It is one of the largest and most powerful species of the genus Amazilia, and may be regarded as the type of a form to which no less than six generic appellations have been assigned. The specific name of latirostris applied to this bird by Prince Charles L. Bonaparte and Dr. Reichenbach cannot be retained, as the latirostris of Swainson, which they have imagined to be the same, is a bird of a totally different form.

I possess numerous examples of this species, none of which present sufficient differences to suggest any positive determination of their sex.

“Elle n’est point rare,” says M. Lesson, “dans les buissons du littoral du Perou, qu’elle frequente le soir et le matin. Comme tous l’oiseaux-mouches, l’Amazili est toujours en mouvement, et vole de fleurs en fleurs en bourdonnant.”

Crown of the head and upper surface greenish-bronze, changing into bronzy-red on the lower part of the back and upper tail-coverts; wings purplish-brown, glossed with bronze; tail chestnut-red, glossed on the central feathers with bronze; throat and chest white, with a crescent of glittering green at the tip of each feather; centre of the breast white; under surface sandy-red; vent and under tail-coverts white, the former washed with rufous.

The figures are of the natural size. The plant is the Befaria estuans.

References

  • Orthorhynchus Amazili, Less. Voy. de la Coq., Ois., pl. 31. fig. 3.
  • Ormsmya amazili, Less. Hist. Nat. des Ois. Mou., pp. xxvii, 67. pls. 12, 13.—Ib. Traité d’Orn., p. 280.—Ib. Man. d’Orn., tom. ii. p. 81.—Ib. Ind. Gen. et Syn. des Ois. du gen. Trochilus, p. xxvii.
  • Polytmus Amazili, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 108, Polytmus, sp. 70.
  • Trochilus Amazilia, Tschudi, Consp. Av., no. 206.—Ib. Faun. Peruana, p. 39.
  • Amazilius latirostris, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 77, Amazilius, sp. 1.—Ib. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 254.
  • Amazilia latirostris, Reich. Aufz. der Col., p. 10.

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