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The tufted coquette was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1781 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. [3] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [4]
Lophornis is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.These are all tiny birds, ranking among the smallest hummingbirds. No species exceeds 9 cm (3.5 in) and most are under 7.5 cm (3.0 in) in total length, weighing 3 grams or less.
Tufted coquette: Lophornis ornatus (Boddaert, 1783) 88 Dot-eared coquette: Lophornis gouldii (Lesson, RP, 1832) 89 Frilled coquette: Lophornis magnificus (Vieillot, 1817) 90 Short-crested coquette: Lophornis brachylophus Moore, RT, 1949: 91 Rufous-crested coquette: Lophornis delattrei (Lesson, RP, 1839) 92 Spangled coquette: Lophornis ...
Lesbiini is one of the two tribes that make up the subfamily Lesbiinae in the hummingbird family Trochilidae.The other tribe is Heliantheini (brilliants).. The informal name "coquettes" has been proposed for this group as the largest genus, Lophornis, has 11 species with "coquette" in their common name.
Tufted coquette; W. White-crested coquette This page was last edited on 3 April 2013, at 23:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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The frilled coquette is one of the smallest birds alive. It is 7.1 to 7.7 cm (2.8 to 3.0 in) long and weighs an average of 2.66 g (0.094 oz). Both sexes have a short, straight, black-tipped red bill and bronzy green upperparts with a white band across the rump.
The rufous-crested coquette is a bird in the family Trochilidae, which includes all extant species of hummingbirds.It is a member of the genus Lophornis, which was identified first by the French naturalist and surgeon René Lesson in 1829, [4] and includes a number of extremely small hummingbirds distributed across central and south America. [5]