Gould's Emerald

Chlorostilbon elegans, Illustration by John Gould

Chlorostilbon elegans is a little known extinct hummingbird from the kind of emerald hummingbirds, which was described in 1860 and drawn by John Gould under the name Erythronota elegans. It is only known from a single specimen of unknown origin, which is kept at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring. After Gould's description of the Hummingbird had a sparkling light green hood. Throat and chest were bronze green. Chlorostilbon elegans has long been considered doubtful Art only after an examination of the Museum copy by the German ornithologist André- Alexander Weller in 1999 was recognized as a valid type Chlorostilbon elegans and incorporated in 2004 by the IUCN in the list of extinct bird species. Weller suspected Jamaica or the Bahamas as the northern region of origin of the Art