Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Lampornis
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
This is a historic version of this account.   Current version

Purple-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis calolaemus

Jacob Peters
Version: 1.0 — Published May 27, 2011

References

Introduction

American Ornithologists' Union. 1983. Check-list of North American birds. Sixth edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC.

American Ornithologists' Union. 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC.

Feinsinger, P.. 1974. Organization of a tropical guild of nectarivorous birds. Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Feinsinger, P., and S. B. Chaplin. 1975. On the relationship between wing disc loading and foraging strategy in hummingbirds. American Naturalist 109: 217-224.

Feinsinger, P., K. G. Murray, S. Kinsman, and W. H. Busby. 1986. Floral neighborhood and pollination success in four hummingbird-pollinated cloud forest plant species. Ecology 67: 449-464.

Feinsinger, F., J. H. Beach, Y. B. Linhart, H. B. Busby, and K. G. Murray. 1987. Disturbance, pollinator predictability, and pollination success among Costa Rican cloud forest plants. Ecology 68: 1294-1305

Feinsinger, P., W. H. Busby, K. G. Murray, J. H. Beach, W. Z. Pounds, and Y. B. Linhart. Mixed support heterogeneity in species interatctions: hummingirds in a tropical disturbance mosaic. American Naturalist 131: 33-57.

Feinsinger, P., and H. M. Tiebout. 1991. Competition among plants sharing hummingbird pollinators: laboratory experiments on a mechanism.

García-Moreno, J., N. Cortés, G. M. García-Deres, and B. E. Hernández-Baños. 2005. Local origin and diversification among Lampornis hummingbirds: a Mesoamerican taxon. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 488-498.

Peters, J.L. 1945. Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 5. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Schuchmann, K.-L. 1999. Family Trochilidae, hummingbirds. Pages 468-680 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 5. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Snow, B. K. 1977. Feeding behavior of two hummingbirds in a Costa Rican montane forest. Wilson Bulletin 89: 613-616.

Wetmore, A. 1967. Further systematic notes on the avifauna of Panamá. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 80: 229-242.

Wetmore, A. 1968. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 2. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections volume 150, part 2.

Recommended Citation

Peters, J. (2011). Purple-throated Mountain-gem (Lampornis calolaemus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.ptmgem.01
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