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Chaetocercus Astreans
The Santa Marta woodstar (''Chaetocercus astreans'') is a species of hummingbird in tribe Mellisugini of subfamily Trochilinae, the "bee hummingbirds". It is endemic to Colombia.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved 27 May 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The Santa Marta woodstar and several other species in genus ''Chaetocercus'' were formerly placed in genus ''Acestrura''. In addition, it was for a time treated as a subspecies of the gorgeted woodstar (''C. heliodor''). It has been in its current position since the late 20th century. It is monotypic. Description The Santa Marta woodstar is about long. Both sexes have a straight black bill. The male's head is shiny green and the rest of the upperparts dark shiny bluish. It ...
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Outram Bangs
Outram Bangs (January 12, 1863 – September 22, 1932) was an American zoologist. Biography Bangs was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, as the second son of Edward and Annie Outram (Hodgkinson) Bangs. He studied at Harvard from 1880 to 1884, and became Curator of Mammals at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1900. He died at his summer home at Wareham, Massachusetts. Works"The Florida Deer" ''Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington'' 10:25–28 (1896)''The hummingbirds of the Santa Marta Region of Colombia''American Ornithologists' Union, New York (1899)"The Florida Puma" ''Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington'' 13:15–17. (1899)"The Mammals and Birds of the Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama" ''Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Bulletin 46'' (8) : 137–160 (1905) with John Eliot Thayer"Notes on the Birds and Mammals of the Arctic Coast of East Siberia" ''New England Zoological Club, Proceedings'', 5 : 1–66 (1914) with Glove ...
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