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Cœligena Prunelli

Cœligena Prunelli

Prunelle’s Cœligene

Pl. 257, Vol. IV · p.257 · 1854 · Gould's Hummingbirds · · 1849-1887

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. 257, Vol. IV
原书页码
p.257
授权
CC0 1.0 Universal (Public domain)

十观

  • 纵幅 1.36∶1

第一眼

凡画山水,意在笔先。

—— 唐·王维《山水论》

下笔之前,心里已经有了整幅画。看画时可以反过来推:画家先定了什么,后添了什么。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

此图原刊于《古尔德蜂鸟图谱》(Gould's Hummingbirds),绘者为约翰·古尔德,成书于 1849—1887 年间。图中描绘的是 Cœligena Prunelli,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. 257, Vol. IV,见第 257 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)

Andes of New Granada. Common in collections from Bogota.

This, like most of the straight-billed Humming-birds, is a native of Columbia and New Grenada; it is a most interesting and attractive species, and is plentifully sent to this country from Bogota: seldom indeed does a collection arrive from that part of South America which does not contain examples.

M. Bourcier gives the environs of Facativa, in Columbia, as one of the localities in which specimens have been procured. The conspicuous white mark on the side of the chest, beautifully relieved by the black of the surrounding parts, the glittering glaucous green of the shoulders, and the variegated colouring of the back, all tend to render it remarkably different from its congeners. The specific name, bestowed upon this bird by M. Bourcier, is intended as a compliment to Dr. Prunelle, one of the scientific celebrities of the city of Lyons.

The sexes present no marked difference in their colouring, but the female is rather less brilliant, and somewhat smaller than her mate.

General plumage dark purplish-black; a bronzy gloss on the forehead; a narrow mark of bluish-green on the lower part of the throat; on each side the chest a large and conspicuous patch of white; wing-coverts steel-blue with green reflexions; wings dark purplish-brown; tail dark velvety purplish-black; under tailcoverts fringed with white; back and upper tail-coverts, when viewed from behind a mass of colour, of which language can convey no idea, being a mingling of crimson, green, purple and red, changing with the direction of the rays of light, or perfectly iridescent; bill black; feet fleshy-brown.

The figures are of the natural size. The plant is a portion of the Chamædorea Ernesti-Augusti.

References

  • Trochilus Prunelli, Boure. Ann. de la Soc. Sci. de Lyon, tom. vi. 1843, p. 36. pl. 1.—Ib. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 70.
  • Mellisuga Prunellei, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 112, Mellisuga, sp. 11.
  • Homophania Prunellii, Reich. Aufz. der Col., p. 10.
  • Bourcieria prunellii, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 292.

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