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黄喉板蜥

Chrysobronchus viridicaudus

Green-tailed Humming-bird

Pl. 231, Vol. IV · p.231 · 1854 · Gould's Hummingbirds · John Gould · 1849-1887

中文名: 黄喉板蜥
学名: Chrysobronchus viridicaudus
合集: 古尔德蜂鸟图谱
绘者: John Gould（约翰·古尔德）
年代: 1854
图版号: Pl. 231, Vol. IV
原书页码: p.231
授权: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public domain)

关于本图版

本图选自约翰·古尔德的《古尔德蜂鸟图谱》（Gould's Hummingbirds），原书 1849—1887 年间出版。画面主体是黄喉板蜥（Chrysobronchus viridicaudus），在分类体系中列于蜂鸟科（Trochilidae）。

该合集全编共 421 幅图版，此图为其中之一，图版编号 Pl. 231, Vol. IV，对应原书第 231 页，版式为纵幅。扫描件取自公有领域原件，经高分辨率修复与色彩校正，可按原大放大查看线条与设色。

原书文字（英文 / 法文）

The banks of the Amazon, from Para to the confines of Peru. I have also received specimens from Demerara.

As is the case with the foregoing species, Chrysobronchus virescens, much confusion has hitherto existed with regard to the correct specific name of this species, and it is the unravelling of the synonymy of such species as these which is the great plague of the Monographist.

Accompanying the list of synonyms which M. Bourcier sent me as in his opinion applicable to C. virescens were the synonyms given above as having reference to this species, and the following note respecting it:—

Il existe au muséum de Paris le type du viridissimus de Vieillot, qui ne laisse aucun doute à cet égard.

À l’époque où M. Lesson publiait son volume des. Trochilidées je lui envoyai divers sujets, afin qu'il puisse déterminer les deux espèces, confondues par les anciens auteurs, mais il n’y porta pas toute l’attention voulue, et il se contenta d’en faire une figure en lui conservant le nom de viridis.

Vous feriez bien d’admettre viridicaudus, Gould. J’avais conseillé au Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte dans son ‘Conspectus’ d’adopter viridissimus; mais ce nom ayant aussi été donné par Lesson a une autre espéce, il vaut mieux ne pas s’en servir.

Whatever uncertainty there may be respecting the names applied to this bird, there is none with regard to the countries it inhabits, for we are constantly receiving specimens direct from all parts of the delta of the Amazon, from Para upwards to the tributary streams of Peru and New Grenada. It is also especially abundant in Guiana, Cayenne and Demerara, whence great numbers are sent to Paris in company with the other families of birds inhabiting those countries.

The sexes differ in the smaller size of the female, and in. that sex as well as the young of the year having the tail-feathers tipped with white and the under surface of a greyer or more uniform tint.

The male has the head, upper surface, wing- and tail-coverts bronzy green; under surface shining grassgreen; wings purplish brown; tail-feathers shining greenish bronze above and green beneath; vent and under tail-coverts white; upper mandible black; basal two-thirds of the under mandible fleshy red, the tip black.

The female is similarly clothed on the upper surface, but on the under is grey washed with green; and her lateral tail-feathers are slightly tipped with white.

The figures are of the natural size. The plant is the Mormodes atropurpurea.