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宝石蜂鸟属·Lampornis Veraguensis

Lampornis Veraguensis

Lampornis Veraguensis

Veraguan Mango

Pl. 76, Vol. II · p.76 · 1850 · Gould's Hummingbirds · · 1849-1887

中文名
宝石蜂鸟属·Lampornis Veraguensis
学名
Lampornis Veraguensis
合集
古尔德蜂鸟图谱
绘者
John Gould(约翰·古尔德)
年代
1850
图版号
Pl. 76, Vol. II
原书页码
p.76
授权
CC0 1.0 Universal (Public domain)

十观

  • 纵幅 1.59∶1

第一眼

竖划三寸,当千仞之高;横墨数尺,体百里之迥。

—— 南朝宋·宗炳《画山水序》

三寸的竖线可当千仞高山,几尺横墨能容百里之远。尺幅从来不是障碍,取舍才是本事。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。画面主体是宝石蜂鸟,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. 76, Vol. II,见第 76 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)

Veragua and Costa Rica

Several years have now elapsed since I received both drawings and specimens of this new Humming-bird from M. Warszewicz, the celebrated South American traveller and botanist. The specimens referred to were collected near the voleano of Chiriqui in Veragua; subsequently I received examples from Costa Rica, and more recently still from the vicinity of David, transmitted by Mr. Bridges: nothing can be more certain, therefore, than that the countries immediately to the northward of the Isthmus of Panama are the native habitat of this bird. As a species, the Lampornis Veraguensis is as well marked as any member of the genus; it possesses a combination of characters which ally it to the L. gramineus and L. Prevost; it differs, however, from the former in its much smaller size, and in the brilliant green of the throat being continued over the chest to the abdomen; and from the L. Prevosti, which it about equals in size, by the total absence of black on the throat. I am so fortunate as to possess males, females and young males of this fine species, which may be thus described.

The male has all the upper surface, wing-coverts and flanks golden green; throat glittering green, inclined to blue in the centre, and becoming of a deeper blue on the chest and centre of the abdomen; wings purplish brown; tail purple, each feather narrowly edged and tipped with darker purple, the two centre feathers tinged with bronze; tuft on each flank white.

The young male is similar on the upper surface; has the throat-mark less brilliant and bordered with white; the centre tail-feathers bronzy green; the lateral feathers purple at the base, crossed near the tip with steel-blue and tipped with white.

The female is of a more golden hue above and on the flanks; has a mark of blackish green bordered with white down the throat and the lateral tail-feathers as in the young male.

The figures are of the natural size. The plant is the Pitcairnia macrocalyx.

References

  • Lamporns Veraguensis, Gould, MSS.
  • Lampornis veraguensis, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 250.
  • Sericotes veraguensis, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibris, p. 11.

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