Fiery-tailed Awlbill

Fiery-tailed Awlbill / Avocettula recurvirostris

Fiery-tailed Awlbill

Here the details of the Fiery-tailed Awlbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Avocettula recurvirostris
Protonym:  Trochilus recurvirostris Zool.Ill. 2 pl.105
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae /
Taxonomy Code:  fitawl1
Type Locality:  Peru; error, Cayenne designated by Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., 15, 1908, p. 264.
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Publish Year:  1822
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DEFINITIONS

AVOCETTULA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Fiery-tailed Awlbill A. recurvirostris) Dim. < genus Avocetta Brisson 1760, avocet; Reichenbach's 1849, plate XXXIX, labelled Trochilinae: Avocettulinae. Polytminae, amply illustrates the recurved avocet-like bill of this hummingbird; "*Avocettula recurvirostris (Troch. — Sws. 1829.) RCHB. — Peru" (Reichenbach 1854); "Avocettula Reichenbach, Av. Syst. [1849], pl. XXXIX, generic details only, no species. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya avocetta Less. = Trochilus recurvirostris Swainson. (Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 23.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 27).
Synon. Avocettinus, Streblorhamphus.

recurvirostra / recurvirostris
L. recurvus  bent backwards  < recurvare  to bend; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Jamaica Shoveler” of Latham 1785 (syn. Oxyura jamaicensis).