![]() ![]() ^ "Chlorophanes spiza (Green Honeycreeper)" (PDF)."The Hybrid Origin of Chlorophanes purpurascens" (PDF). ^ Gill, Frank Donsker, David Rasmussen, Pamela, eds."Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds". The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. Dresden und Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). London: Printed for the author at the College of Physicians. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). It is less heavily dependent on nectar than the other honeycreepers, fruit and seeds being its main food (60%), with nectar (20%) and insects (15%) as less important components of its diet. The female green honeycreeper builds a small cup nest in a tree, and incubates the clutch of two brown-blotched white eggs for 13 days. Immatures are plumaged similar to females. ![]() The female green honeycreeper is grass-green, paler on the throat, and lacks the male's iridescence and black head. The male is mainly blue-tinged green with a black head and a mostly bright yellow bill. The purplish honeycreeper ( Chlorophanes purpurascens), a bird from Venezuela known only from the type specimen, is now thought to be an intergeneric hybrid between the green honeycreeper and either the red-legged honeycreeper or the blue dacnis. axillaris Zimmer, JT, 1929 – east, southeast Brazil caerulescens Cassin, 1865 – south-central Colombia through east Ecuador and east Peru to central Bolivia and west Brazil spiza (Linnaeus, 1758) – Trinidad, east Colombia, Venezuela (except far west), the Guianas and north Brazil subtropicalis Todd, 1924 – north, central Colombia and west Venezuela exsul Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884 – southwest Colombia and west Ecuador argutus Bangs & Barbour, 1922 – east Honduras to northwest Colombia guatemalensis Sclater, PL, 1861 – south Mexico to Honduras A comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study of the tanager family Thraupidae published in 2014 found that the green honeycreeper and the golden-collared honeycreeper ( Iridophanes pulcherrimus) were sister species. The name combines the Ancient Greek khlōros meaning green with -phanēs meaning showing. In 1853 the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach erected the genus Chlorophanes to accommodate the green honeycreeper. Linnaeus based his description on the "green black-cap fly-catcher" that the English naturalist George Edwards had described and illustrated in his 1743 book A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. The specific epithet is the Ancient Greek word for a common finch. He specified the type locality as Suriname. The green honeycreeper was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under its current binomial name Motacilla spiza. It is the only member of the genus Chlorophanes. It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. ![]() The green honeycreeper ( Chlorophanes spiza) is a small bird in the tanager family.
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