Diagnoses of hybrid hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae). 6. An intergeneric hybrid, Aglaiocercus kingi x Metallura tyrianthina, from Venezuela

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 511-520

  Graves, Gary R ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID; MUTATION; VENEZUELA;

BIRD; HYBRID;

AGLACIOCERCUS KINGI; METALLURA TYRIANTHINA;

EID: 0032544825     PISSN: 0006324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Banks, R. C, & N. K. Johnson. 1961. A review of North American hybrid hummingbirdsCondor 63:3-28.
2. & D. R. Medina. 1963. An albinistic Anna HummingbirdCondor 65:69-70.
3. Bleiweiss, R. 1992. Reversed plumage ontogeny in a female hummingbird: implications for the evolution of iridescent colours and sexual dichromatismBiological Journal of the Linnean Society 47:183-195.
4. J. A. W. Kirsch, & J. C. Matheus. 1997. DNA hybridization evidence for the principal lineages of hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae)Molecular Biology and Evolution 14:325-343.
5. Dorst, J. 1951. Recherches sur la structure des plumes des TrochilidésMémoires du Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle (Série A. Zoologie) 1:125-260.
6. Goldsmith, T. H., & K. M. Goldsmith. 1979. Discrimination of colors by the black-chinned hummingbird, Arcliiloclius alexandriJournal of Comparative Physiology A 130:209-220.
7. Grant, P. R., & B. R. Grant. 1992. Hybridization of bird speciesScience 256:193-197.
8. Graves, G. R. 1986. Systematics of the Gorgeted Woodstars (Trochilidae: Acestntra)Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99:218-224.
9. 1990. Systematics of the "green-throated sunangels" (Aves: Trochilidae): valid taxa or hybrids?-Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103:6-25.
10. 1991. Taxonomic status of the Sword-billed Hummingbird (Eiisifera ensifera caerulescens)Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 111:139-140.
11. 1993. Relic of a lost world: a new species of sunangel (Trochilidae: Heliangelus) from BogotaAuk 110:1-8.
12. 1996a. Diagnoses of hybrid hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae). 2. Hybrid origin of Erioc-nemis soderstromi ButlerProceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109:764-769.
13. 1996b. Hybrid wood warblers, Dendroica striata X Dendroica castanea (Aves: Fringillidae: Tribe Parulini) and the diagnostic predictability of avian hybrid phenotypesProceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109:373-390.
14. 1998a. Diagnoses of hybrid hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae). 5. Probable hybrid origin of Amazilia disions Wetmore & PhelpsProceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111:28-34.
15. 1998b. Taxonomic notes on hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae). 1. Eriocnemis dyselius Elliot, 1872 is a melanistic specimen of Eriocnemis cupreoventris (Fraser, 1840)Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111: 420-424.
16. & R. L. Zusi. 1990. An intergeneric hybrid hummingbird (Heliodoxa leadbeateri X Heliangelns amethysticollis) from northern ColombiaCondor 92:754-760.
17. Gray, A. P. 1958. Bird hybrids. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Bucks, England, 390 pp.
18. Greenewalt, C. H., W. Brandt, & D. D. Friel. 1960a. Iridescent colors of hummingbird feathers.Journal of the American Optical Society 50: 1005-1016.
19. 1960b. The iridescent colors of hummingbird feathersProceedings of the American Philo. sophical Society 104:249-253.
20. Greenway, J. C., Jr. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 2Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161:1-305.
21. Hinkelmann, C. 1996. Evidence for natural hybridisation in hermit hummingbirds (Phaethornis spp.)Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 116:5-14.
22. Hunter, R. S., & R. W. Harold. 1987. The measurement of appearance. 2nd edition. Wiley, New York, 411 pp.
23. Lucas, A. M., & P. R. Stettenheim. 1972. Avian anatomy. Integument, Part 2United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Agricultural Handbook 362:341-750.
24. Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1947. New or little-known Colombian birdsProceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 99:107126.
25. & W. H. Phelps, Jr. 1978. A guide to the birds of Venezuela. Princeton University Press, 424 pp. Ortiz-Crespo, F. I. 1972. A new method to separate immature and adult hummingbirdsAuk 89: 851-857.
26. Panov, E. N. 1989. Natural hybridisation and etholog-