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Juan Fernandez Firecrown

Sephanoides fernandensis

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Trochilus fernandensis P. P. King, 1831 MZUT AV 8146; mount; immature male; Chile, Juan Fernández Island, November 1864; donated by the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago. MZUT AV 19938; mount; adult male; adult; Chile, Juan Fernandez Island, December 1864; donated by Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago. MZUT AV 19761; mount; adult female; Chile, Juan Fernandez Island, October 1869; exchange with Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio, Università di Pisa (Italy). Remarks. — MZUT AV 8146 and AV 19938 were obtained during the circumnavigation voyage by the Italian warship Magenta. On 6 October 1867, Enrico H. Giglioli visited the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, where its Director Rodulfo Armando Philippi and his assistant L. Landbeck presented him with numerous Chilean specimens of mammals and birds, including these two hummingbirds (Giglioli 1876). MZUT AV 19761 was collected by Carlo Regnoli (1838 – 73), an Italian physician, paleontologist and archaeologist (Anon. 1873, Natale et al. 2006). The MZUT collection contains 40 specimens from the Regnoli collection, mainly from Peru and Chile.

Scientific name
Sephanoides fernandensis
Family
Trochilidae
Order
Apodiformes
Genus
Sephanoides
Conservation status
Critically Endangered

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