CHLOROSTILBON HA BERLINI

Ruddy-breasted Emerald,

Chlorestes heberlini, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibr.

Taf. 703. figs. 4578-89 (1855).
Chlorostilbon heberlini, Cab. &

Pp. 7 (1853).—Td. Trochil. Enum. p: 4,

Heine, Mus. Hein. TI
Trochil. Syo, p. 175 (1861).—Wwy
1875, p. 160.—Mulsant, Hist. N
Synopsis of the Tumming-Birds
Chlorolampis heberlini, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iene p- 48, note 6 (1860).

Chlorostilbon nitens, Lawy. Ann. Liye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii. p. 305 (1861).—Gould, Intr.
Trochil. 8vo, p. 179 (1861).

1. Il. p. 48, note 6 (1860).—Gould, Intr.
att, Ibis, 1871, pp. 119, 378.—Elliot, Ibis,
at. Oiseaux-Mouches, u. p. 100 (1876).—Elliot,
» p. 245 (1878).

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Tuts species, which is easily recognized by its black bill

, with the basal half of the lower mandible
flesh-coloured, is an inhabitant of Venezuela and Colombia. Considerable variation in colour is to
, and we cannot do better than quote Mr.
“Specimens vary, like those of other species of Chorostilbon,

their plumages ; and some have brilliant crowns.

be noticed in a series Elliot’s remarks on this subject :—
in the shades of green possessed in
It is to these individuals that Mr. Lawrence has given
His specimen came from Venezuela, but as I have
same country with a green crown, like the majority of those from
importance to constitute a species,

the name of xitens, as above cited. a specimen from the

Colombia, I do not deem this of sufficient
especially as in other respects the examples are alike. I have therefore
placed Mr. Lawrence’s name as a synonym of C. heberlin’. Specimens from Venezuela and Colombia are
not to be distinguished from each other, with which also those brought by Mr. Wyatt from near Cartagena
(the locality of the type of C. hebertini) fully agree.”

Mr. Wyatt, writing of this species at Ocana in the Magdalena valley, says:—‘ We had an opportunity
while here of seeing the Humming-bird feeding its young, which is performed in the same way as it is by a
Pigeon. A young Chlorostilbon heberlini was sitting on a coffee-shrub, which grew under a large tree,
around the blossoms of which the Humming-birds congregated. The old bird came, and, having first
swallowed the food herself, ejected it into the mouth of the young one. We afterwards caught the young
one in a butterfly-net.”

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