Grey-breasted sabrewing

The grey-breasted sabrewing (Campylopterus largipennis) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Grey-breasted sabrewing
Grey-breasted sabrewing in Ecuador.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Campylopterus
Species:
C. largipennis
Binomial name
Campylopterus largipennis
(Boddaert, 1783)

It is found in humid forest in the Guianas and the Amazon Basin with a smaller disjunct population (subspecies diamantinensis) in forest and woodland in Bahia and Minas Gerais in eastern Brazil.

A relatively large hummingbird with grey underparts and broad white tail-tips, it is generally common.

Taxonomy

The grey-breasted sabrewing was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana.[2] 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.[3] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Trochilus largipennis in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[4] The grey-breasted sabrewing is now placed in the genus Campylopterus that was erected by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1827.[5][6] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek kampulos meaning "curved" or "bent" and -pteros meaning "-winged". The specific epithet largipennis combines the Latin largus meaning "ample" and -pennis meaning "-winged".[7]

Subspecies

Four subspecies are recognised:[6]

  • C. l. largipennis (Boddaert, 1783) – east Venezuela, the Guianas, north Brazil
  • C. l. obscurus Gould, 1848 – northeast Brazil[8]
  • C. l. aequatorialis Gould, 1861 – east Colombia and northwest Brazil to north Bolivia
  • C. l. diamantinensis Ruschi, 1963 – southeast Brazil[8]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Campylopterus largipennis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1780). "L'oiseau-mouche à larges tuyaux". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Volume 11. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. p. 48.
  3. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Oiseau-mouche à larges tuyaux, de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Volume 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 672 Fig. 2.
  4. Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 41, Number 672 Fig. 2.
  5. Swainson, William John (1827). "On several groups and forms in ornithology, not hitherto defined". Zoological Journal. 3: 343-363 [358].
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Hummingbirds". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  7. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 87, 219. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  8. Lopes, L.E.; De Vasconcelos, M.F.; Gonzaga, L.P. (2017). "A cryptic new species of hummingbird of the Campylopterus largipennis complex (Aves: Trochilidae)". Zootaxa. 4268 (1): 1–33. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4268.1.1.
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