Fiery-tailed awlbill, Avocettula recurvirostris (Ornismya avocetta), juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural History of the Colibri Genus of Hummingbirds, Histoire Naturelle des Colibris, Arthus Betrand, Paris, 1830.

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