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Petasophora thalassina

Petasophora thalassina

Mexican Violet-Ear

Pl. 227, Vol. IV · p.227 · 1854 · Gould's Hummingbirds · · 1849-1887 · 黄

学名
Petasophora thalassina
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. 227, Vol. IV
原书页码
p.227
主色
黄
授权
CC0 1.0 Universal (Public domain)

十观

  • 黄色主调
  • 略纵 1.23∶1

第一眼

夫象物必在于形似,形似须全其骨气。

—— 唐·张彦远《历代名画记》

形似只是门槛,骨气才是要害。看一株植物,先看它立不立得住——这就是骨气。这一幅略高于宽,落点在中央偏上那只鸟的头部。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,找黄色最重的一小块:整幅的明暗秩序,是从那里排开的。

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关于本图版

《古尔德蜂鸟图谱》(Gould's Hummingbirds)由约翰·古尔德绘制,1849—1887 年间印行,本图即其中一幅。画面主体为 Petasophora thalassina,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. 227, Vol. IV,对应原书第 227 页,版式为纵幅,画面以黄为主色。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)

Mexico and Guatemala

Mexico may claim this species as strictly its own; for although it is found in the States of Guatemala, Costa Rica and Veragua, Mexico proper would seem to be its chief habitat, and it is certainly not found to the southward of the Isthmus of Panama.

It presents a singular combination of characters in its colouring, uniting P. cyanotus with P. Anais, but it is quite distinct from both; the blue mark on the breast at all times distinguishing it from the former, and the almost total absence of the blue mark on the chin, and its smaller size, from the latter. It will be seen that I have thought it likely that two of the birds figured by Lesson, under the name of Anais, are identical with the present species, and indeed I can refer them to no other; at the same time his figures are by no means correct representations.

To Mr. Swainson pertains the credit of characterizing this bird as distinct from all the other species of the family then known, he having assigned to a specimen procured at Temiscaltipec the appellation of thalassinus in his ‘‘ Synopsis of the Birds of Mexico,” published in the “Philosophical Magazine” as long since as June 1827.

Head, all the upper surface, wing-coverts and flanks yellowish green; a narrow line commencing on the centre of the chin and extending under the eye and the ear-coverts purplish blue; throat and chest tessellated luminous green, as in the other species; centre of the abdomen deep blue; tail deep green, crossed near the tip by a broad chalybeate band; two central feathers slightly washed with bronze; wings purplish brown; bill dull black; feet blackish brown.

The figures are of the natural size, on one of the beautiful Bignonias of the country it inhabits.

References

  • Trochilus thalassinus, Swains. Syn. Birds of Mexico in Phil. Mag., June 1827, p. 441.
  • Ormsmya Anais, Less. Hist. Nat. des Col., p. 104.—Ib. Supp. des Ois. Mou., pl. 3?
  • Ramphodon Anais, Less. Hist. Nat. des Troch., p. 148. pl. 56?
  • Polytmus thalassinus, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 108, Polytmus, sp. 26.
  • Petasophora thalassinus, Gould in Proce. of Zool. Soc., Part xv. p. 8.
  • Colibri thalassinus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 69, Colibri, sp. 2.
  • Trochilus Anais, Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming Birds, vol. ii. p. 2?

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