Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Rufous - Amazilie ( Amasilia tzacatl )

The Rufous - Amazilie ( Amasilia tzacatl ) is a species of bird in the family of hummingbirds. It comes from Mexico prior to Colombia and northwest Venezuela.

Features

The plumage of the Brown -tail Amazilie is colored predominantly brownish. The eyes are dark. The body length is 10 centimeters. The beak is - as is typical for hummingbirds - with two inches long in relation to body size and reddish-brown color. Females resemble the males, have on the throat and chest but single gray feather.

Behavior

The Rufous - Amazilie is a free breeder. The nesting material is made of cobwebs, cotton or hemp short fibers. The female lays two eggs. Incubation period is 18 days. In captivity, the offspring of such applicable as robust hummingbird has already succeeded.

Naming

The name tzacatl in scientific taxon is from a Toltec warrior who was related to the commander in chief.

In English and in French it also sometimes takes the trivial name Rieffer 's Hummingbird and l' Ariane de Rieffer. This goes back to an article by Jules Bourcier in the Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne from 1843. In his article, he wrote:

Nous avons Dedie cette espèce à M. Rieffer, dans cette partie voyageur de l' Amérique méridionale, qui, le premier, reports a de riches collections d' oiseaux de différents genres. ( German: We dedicate this species Mr. Rieffer, a traveler in this part of South America, who brought a considerable collection of birds of different species first. )

There are many variants in the literature to Bourcier naming. John Gould named the hummingbird in his drawings, for example Rieffer 's Amazili ( Amasilia riefferi ). Jean Louis Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine used in 1860 at the Museum Heineanum -. Directory of the ornithological collection of the bailiff Ferdinand Heine on Good St. Burchard before Halberstatdt, the scientific taxon Pyrrhophaena Riefferi.

Ultimately, it turned out that Pablo de la Llave had in 1830 described first this bird. Thus, had, according to the International Rules for Zoological Nomenclature his taxon, the oldest available name, priority.

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