Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Selasphorus
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Scintillant Hummingbird Selasphorus scintilla

Christopher J. Clark
Version: 1.0 — Published February 10, 2011

References

Introduction

Blake, E. R. 1956. A collection of Panamanian nests and eggs. Condor 58: 386-388.

Carriker, M. A. 1910. An annotated list of the birds of Costa Rica, including Cocos Island. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 6: 314-915.

Clark, C. J., T. J. Feo, and I. Escalante. 2011. Courtship displays and natural history of the Scintillant (Selasphorus scintilla) and Volcano (S. flammula) hummingbirds. Wilson Journal of Ornithology in press.

Coues. 1882. The Coues Check List of North American Birds. University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Feinsinger, P. 1977. Notes on the hummingbirds of Monteverde, Cordillera de Tileran, Costa Rica. Wilson Bulletin 89:159-164.


Fogden, M., and P. Fogden. 2006. Hummingbirds of Costa Rica. Firefly Books, Buffalo, New York.


Gould, J. 1850. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London :162.


Gould, J. 1861. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds. John Gould, London.


Hartman, F. A. 1957. Some additions to nesting data on Panamanian birds. Condor 59: 269-271.


Hartman, F. A. 1961. Locomotor mechanisms of birds. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 143: 1-91.


Hartman, F. A., and K. A. Brownell. 1959. Liver lipids in hummingbirds. Condor 61: 270-277.


Lewis, C. T., and C. Short. 1879. Freund's Latin dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.


McGuire, J., C. C. Witt, D. L. Altshuler, and J. V. Remsen. 2007. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate partitioning strategy. Systematic Biology 56: 837-856.


McGuire, J. A., C. C. Witt, J. V. Remsen, R. Dudley, and D. L. Altshuler. 2009. A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds. Journal of Ornithology 150: 155-165.


Ridgway, R. 1911. The birds of North and Middle America. Part V. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 50, part 5.


Stiles, F. G. 1983. Systematics of the southern form of Selasphorus (Trochilidae). Auk 100: 311-325.


Stiles, F. G. 1995. Intraspecific and interspecific variation in moult patterns of some tropical hummingbirds. Auk 112: 118-132.

Stiles, F. G. 1999. 324. Scintillant Hummingbird. in Handbook of the Birds of the World Vol. 5. Barn-owls to Hummingbirds (K.-L. Schuchmann, Ed.). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Stiles, F. G., and A. F. Skutch. 1989. A guide to the birds of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.


Swainson, W. 1830. Fauna Boreali-Americana. The Birds.


Wetmore, A. 1968. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 2. Columbidae (pigeons) to Picidae (woodpeckers). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections volume 150, part 2. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.


Yanega, G. M., P. Pyle, and G. R. Geupel. 1997. The timing and reliability of bill corrugations for ageing hummingbirds. Western Birds 28: 13-18.

Recommended Citation

Clark, C. J. (2011). Scintillant Hummingbird (Selasphorus scintilla), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.scihum1.01