Geographical Variation in the Blue-Throated Hummingbird (Lampornis clemenciae)
Van Tyne J. 1953. Geographical Variation in the Blue-Throated Hummingbird (Lampornis clemenciae). The Auk. 70(2):207-209
In 1918 a dispute began over the range of the northern race of the blue-throated hummingbird. The author in 1929 studied 6 adult males of Lampornis clemenciae from the Chisos Mountains and found them to belong to the southern race, L. c. clemenciae, and not the northern race, L. c. bessophilus, as was claimed in 1918. Other researchers disagreed with the author. The author therefore assembled a series of 17 adult male and 8 adult female specimens of L. c. clemenciae from Mexico, and 37 adult male and 25 adult female species of L. c. bessophilus from Arizona. The author described differences between the two subspecies. In addition, he assembled 14 adult specimens (10 males and 4 females) from the Chisos Mountains and found on comparison that all specimens clearly belonged within the series of Lampornis c. clemenciae.
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- Journal Article
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- Van Tyne, Josselyn
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- Animal Studies, blue-throated hummingbird (Lampornis clemenciae) - Trochilidae, Classification, Distribution, Range