Black-crested Coquette
Black-crested Coquette
Here the details of the Black-crested Coquette named bird below:
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Protonym: Ornismya Helenae Rev.Zool. 6 p.133
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Lophornis
Taxonomy Code: blccoq1
Type Locality: Vera Paz, Guatemala.
Author: Delattre
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LOPHORNIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Tufted Coquette L. ornatus) Gr. λοφος lophos crest, tuft; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "LES COQUETS. Lophornis. Nob. La queue est courte, ou rectiligne, ou arrondie, ou un peu échancrée; mais la tête est surmontée d'une huppe, ou les plumes du cou sont disposées en faisceaux et se développent de manière à former sur les côtés du cou des parures accessoires. ... OISEAU-MOUCHE NATTERER. Ornismya Nattereri. ... OISEAU-MOUCHE PÉTASOPHORE. Ornismya petasophora. ... OISEAU-MOUCHE DELALANDE OU LE PLUMET BLEU. Ornismya Delalandi. ... OISEAU-MOUCHE HUPPÉ. Ornismya cristata. ... OISEAU-MOUCHE HUPPE-COL. Ornismya ornata. ... OISEAU-MOUCHE HAUSSE-COL BLANC. Ornismya strumaria. ... OISEAU-MOUCHE VIEILLOT. Ornismya Vieillotii." (Lesson 1829); "Lophornis Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches [1829], p. xxxvij. Type, by subsequent designation, L. ornata (L.) Less. Ois. M., pl. 14 = Trochilus ornatus Boddaert. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 14.)" (Peters 1945, V, 31).
Synon. Aurinia, Bellatrix, Cosmorrhipis, Dialia, Idas, Lophomyia, Lophorinus, Paphosia, Polemistria, Telamon.
helenae
• Renée Marie Jeanne Hélène Lavauden (1912-1989) daughter of French naturalist and forester Louis Lavauden (subsp. Galerida cristata).
• Helen McMahon Cutting (1894-1961) wife of US explorer C. Suydam Cutting (subsp. Harpactes erythrocephalus).
• Gr. myth. Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium,” wife to Menelaüs and the most beautiful woman of her age (Hypothymis).
• Helen or Ellen Kelsall née Owens (1873-1930) wife of Colonel H. J. Kelsall, collector in tropical Africa 1910-1913 (subsp. Laniarius barbarus).
• Helen Luise Elisabeth Herzogin zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princesse d’Orléans (1814-1858) wife of patron of natural history Ferdinand Philippe Duc d’Orléans (Lophornis).
• Elena de Faz Booth y Tinto (d. 1850) wife of Cuban plantation owner Carlos Booth y Tinto, who befriended Gundlach (Mellisuga).
• Helen Mackenzie McConnell née Alexander (1871-1954) wife of English collector F. V. McConnell (subsp. Neopipo cinnamomea).
• Helena Forde née Scott (1832-1910) Australian entomologist, oologist and artist (subsp. Parotia lawesii).
• Helena Mary Ann Oates née Blythe (1865-1903) wife of English naturalist Eugene W. Oates (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (syn. Polyplectron bicalcaratum).
• Helen Livingston Greenway née Scott (1903-1985) first wife of US ornithologist James C. Greenway, Jr. (Paul Scofield in litt.) (subsp. Stachyris strialata).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)