Purplish honeycreeper

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Purplish honeycreeper
ChlorophanesPurpurascensSmit.jpg
Purplish honeycreeper, illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Chlorophanes
Species:
C. purpurascens
Binomial name
Chlorophanes purpurascens
Sclater & Salvin, 1873

The purplish honeycreeper (Chlorophanes purpurascens) is a bird in the Thraupidae, or tanager family. It is known only from the type specimen, a trade-skin held in the British Museum, and is thought to be an intergeneric hybrid between the green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) and either the red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) or the blue dacnis (Dacnis cayana), though Hellmayr, in his Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands, considered it a good species. [1] [2]

The type locality on the specimen's label was given as Caracas in Venezuela. However Storer, when discussing the specimen and the characteristics of its preparation, suggested that it was more likely to derive from the Paria Peninsula of northern Venezuela. [1]

Male green honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza-20090124.jpg
Male green honeycreeper
Male red-legged honeycreeper Red-leeged Honeycreeper.jpg
Male red-legged honeycreeper
Male blue dacnis Dacnis cayana.jpg
Male blue dacnis

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References

  1. 1 2 Storer, Robert W. (1957). "The Hybrid Origin of Chlorophanes purpurascens" (PDF). Auk. 74 (4): 507. doi:10.2307/4081756. JSTOR   4081756.
  2. Hellmayr, C.E. (1909). "Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part 8". Fieldiana Zoology. Publication. 13 (8): 250. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.2985 .