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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]
The genus Lophornis was introduced by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1829. [1] The type species was subsequently designated as the tufted coquette (Lophornis ornatus). [2] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" or "tuft" with ornis meaning "bird". [3] The genus contains the following eleven species: [4]
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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 ...
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]
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The butterfly coquette is 7.5 to 9.1 cm (3.0 to 3.6 in) long. The male of the nominate subspecies has a deep green head with a long, red-tipped, green crest and long green "whiskers" with white tips. Its back is green with golden highlights, deep reddish uppertail coverts, and a white band on the rump. The underparts are green but for white ...