Violet-throated Metaltail

Violet-throated Metaltail / Metallura baroni

Violet-throated Metaltail

Here the details of the Violet-throated Metaltail named bird below:

SCI Name:  Metallura baroni
Protonym:  Metallura baroni Bull.Br.Orn.Club 1 p.49
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae /
Taxonomy Code:  vitmet1
Type Locality:  Mountains near Cuenca, 12,000 ft., Ecuador.
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Publish Year:  1893
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DEFINITIONS

METALLURA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Black Metaltail M. phoebe) Gr. μεταλλον metallon  metal; ουρα oura  tail; "METALLURA, gen. nov.   Char. gen.— Rostrum rectum, sublongum.  Plumæ molles sericeæ.  Cauda subgrandis, rotundata.  Gula et rectrices infra tanquam metallum expolitum luminosæ.  Alæ subgrandes.  Tarsi nudi.  Pedes subgrandes.  Digitus et unguis postici digitum et unguem medios longitudine æquantes vel superantes.   ...    The species are— Trochilus cupreocauda, Gould.  Trochilus æneocauda, Gould.  Trochilus Alardi, Bourc.  Trochilus smaragdinicollis, D'Orb.  Trochilus Williami, Bourc." (Gould 1847); "Metallura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 15, 1847, p. 94. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya cupreicauda Gould = Ornismya phoebe Lesson and DeLattre. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22.)" (Peters 1945, V, 118).
Var. Meltalura.
Synon. Laticauda, Lavinia, Urolampra.

baroni
Oscar Theodor Baron (1847-1926) German engineer, collector in California, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru (subsp. Atlapetes latinuchus, subsp. Cantorchilus superciliaris, Cranioleuca, syn. Eutoxeres aquila heterurus, Metallura, Phaethornis, syn. Sakesphorus bernardi cajamarcae).